Socdems take power, ally with the Green Party and the libertarians/classical liberals (FDP).
A few mild reforms are attempted, but beyond the minimum wage increase and a 49€ monthly public transport ticket for all of Germany (it got negotiated up from 9€), they're mostly torpedoed by the FDP.
The war starts and the Greens and FDP enthusiastically go full Slava Ukraini. The Socdems less so, but don't really object.
Inflation gets bad and poverty increases, and the government is barely any eager to do anything about it, so It remains high to this day.
The fash start rising, and in response the conservatives think up a strategy: declaring the green party as their main enemy and adopt a staunchly right wing positioning.
Thanks to some fuck the poor environmentalism, the CDU/CSU has the excuse to cozy up to the fash and try to take away their voters through culture Wars (such as against the recent Heating Law).
It doesn't work, except to lessen the influence of the remaining Merkelites in the CDU/CSU (thus pushingtthe party to the right) and gain support for the fash, who are outright winning elections in parts of the east.
The CDU/CSU is led by the Reaganite and BlackRock employee Friedrich Merz too, so they are starting to look open to allying with the AfD.
The Socdems are useless, the Greens are staunch left-neoliberals, the FDP are staunch supporters of the class interests of the bourgeoise, the Left party is too busy infighting and is useless anyway and the Unions are backing down from the strike wave of earlier this year for no real reason except reluctance to act.
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Socdems take power, ally with the Green Party and the libertarians/classical liberals (FDP).
A few mild reforms are attempted, but beyond the minimum wage increase and a 49€ monthly public transport ticket for all of Germany (it got negotiated up from 9€), they're mostly torpedoed by the FDP.
The war starts and the Greens and FDP enthusiastically go full Slava Ukraini. The Socdems less so, but don't really object.
Inflation gets bad and poverty increases, and the government is barely any eager to do anything about it, so It remains high to this day.
The fash start rising, and in response the conservatives think up a strategy: declaring the green party as their main enemy and adopt a staunchly right wing positioning.
Thanks to some fuck the poor environmentalism, the CDU/CSU has the excuse to cozy up to the fash and try to take away their voters through culture Wars (such as against the recent Heating Law).
It doesn't work, except to lessen the influence of the remaining Merkelites in the CDU/CSU (thus pushingtthe party to the right) and gain support for the fash, who are outright winning elections in parts of the east.
The CDU/CSU is led by the Reaganite and BlackRock employee Friedrich Merz too, so they are starting to look open to allying with the AfD.
The Socdems are useless, the Greens are staunch left-neoliberals, the FDP are staunch supporters of the class interests of the bourgeoise, the Left party is too busy infighting and is useless anyway and the Unions are backing down from the strike wave of earlier this year for no real reason except reluctance to act.