Here in Germany we’re gonna have a new chancellor soon after a whole 16 years of Merkel.
The Green Party’s candidate, Annalena Baerbock, isn’t great but she’s the only candidate who remotely considers the climate a factor that might be worth keeping in mind, and as you could expect, the conservative CDU, the libertarian FDP and ofc the fascist AfD hate her guts for it, alongside large parts of the media. They’re trying to Corbyn her, pretty much.
And the libs’ analysis of this: “Ah yes, it must be because she is a woman.”
We have had Angela Merkel in office for the past sixteen years. SIXTEEN YEARS.
The fact that maybe she’s getting shat on because she’s trying to minimally go against capital doesn’t even cross their minds. Terminal idpol brain.
Environmentalism is not by itself going against capital. At worst, it’s just allying with that fraction of capital that does not depend on the extraction of natural resources. There’s a reason the Greens receive donations from insurance companies. At any rate, she’s a NATO warmonger demanding moderate social democracy.
Nevertheless, the media attacks on her are transparently cheap and misogynist, even ageist (“No experience!”, “Didn’t even finish college!”). But there’s no point weighing up sexism and anti-social-democracy here, I think.
