“A world where only power matters is a dangerous place. First for small states, then for the middle powers, and ultimately for the great ones. I do not say this lightly. In the 20th century, my country Germany went down this road to its bitter end. It pulled the world into a black abyss.”
“Babaloo!”
Just as a note, Merz is likely the most unpopular and worst chancellor that Germany has ever seen.
Ever?
I mean, the chancellor you’re referring to was only chancellor for a brief time and then gave Germany the d (as in dictator)
And not so unpopular during his stay in power.
What has he dont thats bad? He seems ok from the outside.
He destroys our social security system.
He spews hate against people with migration backgrounds.
His party works with the heritage foundation.
He sold the new digital ministry to the Media Markt / Saturn CEO.
He doesn’t want to ban our new Nazi party, he works with them.
The list goes on. His party is similar to the Republicans.
In addition to the great summary by /u/FleetingTit, his cabinet is full of lobbyism, most egregiously in the form of the support of fossil fuels. He pushes the narrative of the far right party and even votes with them despite promises not to. He implemented illegal border controls (or his ministers did but he openly supports it). He’s also inviting war criminals from Israel (protest against Israel is suppressed sometimes quite brutally) and appeases Trump.
Just some things of the top of my head in no particular order.
He continuously questions the wellfare state of Germany, which most of us are very proud of. Unemployment benefits will get stricter rules. He says 14.5 sick days per worker and year are an unacceptably high number and we should ask ourselves if that is really necessary. He calls immigrants a problem for our cityscapes. Every foreign visit he went on he insulted the host country in some other way. He and his party argue for reactivation of our nuclear power plants for “cheap” energy, but all the former operators of those plants say it would be uneconomical or downright impossible to do and thr kWh would be way more expensive than renewables. They also ask Germany and the german economy to be “open for different technologies” when it comes to the decarbonising the country but the race has been won by BEV and heat pumps, no amount of H2 research will change that. He calls himself upper middle class despite having a private plane and multiple houses, the money for which he earned in his time at BlackRock. Nobody wanted him in any official office he held. He lacks enpathy. He lacks kindness. He lacks leadership. He lacks a vision of the future.
He got 500 billion Euro to spend as he pleases (10% of German GDP) and still isn’t able to kickstart the economy with that.
You can call it a good day when Merz doesn’t pull a Goebbles in a speech.
Not great, not terrible. Won’t go down as historic speech.
He won’t go down as a notable chancellor either, that’s for sure.
Looking at what is currently happening, he probably will. For better or worse, he is one of the most powerful men in Europe and right now especially the EU has to make some big decisions, which will likely have consequences decades from now. Hell Chamberlain went down in history too.
“How would I be remembered in history?”
“You won’t.”
Oh he will. Just not his speeches
For being the most spineless German chancellor in history, I guess.
No. That was Scholz. But for being the first chancler to actively help the nazis come to power again AND needing two attempts to be voted into chanclery
Merz - Gaza genocide enabler.
As he said:
,Israel does the dirty work for us (the right wing)“.
His grandfather was a Nazi, member of the NSDAP and SA.
Guess why Merz is proud of his grandfather.
People who don’t have 4 German grandparents don’t fit into his cityscape.
Netanyahu and his military cleanse it for him.
The CDU/CSU are so Christian, they would deport Jesus.
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