Laeserin @Laeserin - 10mo
German politics is mostly like a horror high school, where the popular people spend all day determining who can sit at their table for lunch and which rules determine this, and try to have everyone else arrested. That this is incredibly totalitarian behavior, just flies right past their comprehension because they see themselves as the Gutmenschen.
What Germans never learned is that the danger is less in political leanings, and more in totalitarianism. I.e. creating a government structure with which to impose your leanings unilaterally, with no opportunity for escape. That is why it is ineffective to focus on political flavors and better to focus on shrinking government, capping and reigning its power, and maximumizing subsidiarity. (Or imposing anarchy, but that's not my gig.)
This is why I say that most Germans never truly learned the lesson from the war.
halalmoney @halalmoney - 10mo
“it is ineffective to focus on political flavors and better to focus on shrinking government” Agreed. Here in the UK the Conservatives ran with this rhetoric of shrinking government…. and gave the people a higher tax burden!🫠
And arrested people for thought-crimes.
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