Is it too late for progressives to win back the German youth vote?

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1. It is too late for this eu election because a lot of candidates didnt even try to win these votes.

2. They just fucked us by making sure we will likely pay over 25% of our salary just to fund pensions ontop of pensions also stealing money out of our federal budget that is needed elsewhere, so there isnt much positive in it for people under 50 to vote for the current mainstream parties.

3. have progressives never asked themselves whether young Europeans really want sharia and caliphate?

4. Germany has some problems right now, though many countries do as well. While the far right conservatives are an embarrassment, the answer surely isn’t to attempt the progressivism/utopia angle. Real issues need to be addressed and solved. It’s not time for people and the government to hold hands in a circle in a mountain meadow singing about the virtues of peace and love.

   The youth need to learn the basics of reality and what it takes to run a country and pay its bills.

5. short answer: yes

6. Hopefully yes

7. I hate the term “progressive”. Basically everything that wants to change the status quo could be called progressive.

   Whether some change is positive progress is very much subjective.

8. >“Young people are experiencing far too many crises at the same time,” says Luisa Neubauer, who is an activist for Fridays for Future. According to her, many are struggling with paying their rent, finding jobs, the possibility of war in Europe and existential concerns about the climate and planet.

   > At the same time, we see that many people don’t feel that their crises are being taken seriously. Politicians are not acting fast enough and this is helping right-wing populism.”

9. Europe is in for a very rude awakening and the union itself as we know it might be at stake.

   Unfortunately the left is too dogmatic, arrogant, and detached, the centre is ineffective and stuck, and the right is capturing everyone’s dissatisfaction and grievances.

   The left everywhere does not seem interested to tackle real issues that affect everybody and they seem content with token progress on social issues and not being labelled “fascist” for not conforming to their ideals.

   I hope this is not the beginning of the end for this European experiment.

10. >The consequences of a radicalization of young people can be severe

    I love that when they vote for the far right they are “radicalized”, but when they vote for the far left, they are cool and normal young people.

11. How is constantly calling one far side good democratic and progressive and the other far side bad, destructive, fascist etc in the media democratic? I hate the narrative where there is good ones and bad ones and what people absolutely should vote. Let people decide for themselves, is not this as democratic as it gets?