SPD running on green agenda - but will people trust them to make good on it?
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  • poVoq
    4•3 years ago

    This is following conventional German realpolitik logic, but then the result is a right wing dominated SPD and a marginalized left in both the SPD and its potential coalition partners. The SPD leadership always tries to play this game, and most Germans have sadly swallowed this self-serving logic.

    But you can just as easily look at the almost equally strong number of non-voters and see a big left voter pool. While there is no way to be certain, it is likely that a large part of these have moderate leftist leanings, as the AFD was actually quite successful to mobilize the more right wing part of the non-voters.

    But as long as the SPD insists on running a “CDU-light” campaign (aka the age old “lesser evil” one), these current non-voters are quite correct in their analysis that it doesn’t really matter who wins the election.

    • @qoheniac@lemmy.ml
      1•3 years ago

      I don’t see the SPD being right-wing dominated. The party base just elected a quite left leader duo and they chose Olaf Scholz to make a left coalation possible in the way I described above knowing he doesn’t really have a chance to become chancellor. So he is just there for the posters to get CDU voters vote for SPD to have a chance for a coalition probably lead by the Green party.

      • poVoq
        2•3 years ago

        The SPD leadership always has been quite right-wing (in relative terms), especially after the WASG split. But yes, right now the more leftish basis has elected some left blinking figure-heads who in my opinion have consistently not lived up to expectations, but that is another discussion.

        I just think the overall idea of trying to “steal back” voters from the CDU (who “stole” some center-leftish voters from the SPD in the Merkel years) is misguided. Those are much more likely to vote Green in the first place or stick with the CDU.

        • @qoheniac@lemmy.ml
          1•3 years ago

          I think both Greens and SPD have the potential to convince different kinds of CDU voters without stealing too much from each other and maybe loosing some voters to the Lefts who should try to get as much non-voters as possible. To me this strategy seems the only one that could lead to a government without the CDU.