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Das sagten Vertraute der Politikerin laut einem Medienbericht. Sahra Wagenknecht hat anscheinend schon vier Kernelemente dieser Partei gefunden – und spricht von der „irren Politik der Ampel“, die beendet werden müsse.
  • cfgaussian
    81·
    10 months ago

    Some of the things she says are cringe AF and i really disagree with with her position on most Covid related issues, but i really hope she goes through with this and i hope she manages to siphon off a good amount of voters from the establishment parties and from the AfD too. Overall she is currently one of (along with a few others like Oskar Lafontaine and Martin Sonneborn) the least objectionable and most sane, relatively speaking, of the more prominent German politicians. Of course what i would prefer even more is if she joined the DKP and brought her fairly significant base of supporters over to communism, but we have to work with what we have, and sadly the German communist parties are just to small to be relevant at the moment.

    It’s too bad that she doesn’t get along with Die Linke anymore but that party has been seriously hemorrhaging support ever since they decided to go the path of the SPD and adopt opportunist positions on so many issues, including Ukraine-Russia, and if things continue like this they may completely disappear into obscurity and not even get into the Bundestag anymore if they fall under the 5% threshold.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      71·
      10 months ago

      I completely agree with this assessment. She’s by no means perfect, but if she can provide a principled left alternative to AfD that focuses on class issues that would definitely improve the state of things in Germany.

      • cfgaussian
        71·
        10 months ago

        I probably still would prefer to vote for the DKP whenever possible, but for those people who just can’t break through the indoctrination that doesn’t let them bring themselves to vote for a communist party it may be a good alternative. Certainly if she pulls away a chunk of the populist base of the AfD that will be beneficial because the current state of affairs in Germany with the only populist option being a far right xenophobic party with Nazi sympathies is very very bad. People are desperate for an alternative to the liberal establishment and when the left doesn’t provide one the neo-fascist right takes full advantage of that.