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In this video I react to and learn about the political systems, governments and parliaments of Germany and USA and whether the people of Germany and America trust their government. This is alsp looks at German 'Protestkultur'
Original Video - • Do You Trust Your Gove...
Fun fact: We usually don't call it "protest" unless things are about to get heated. We call it "Demo" as in Demonstration. And this word in German also means to present something to the public.
These Demos don't have to be "against something", they can be means to raise an issue or convey a public demand. Like Students often demonstrate for better schools. Or safer streets.
I can Agree on that :)
German: Trust is a big word. I trust in our democratic system as a whole, of which the government is a part. I also appreciate that here coalitions are necessary to form governments. Every part of our system controls every other part.
Every democratic party should be able to make compromises with any other democratic party. (Extremists are excluded; because you can't make compromises with people who want to take away our human rights and so our democracy.)
I agree with you completely.
But I would leave out the compromises a little. A party don't have to make compromises if "red lines" have been crossed and still be not extreme.
What shouldn't happen, however, is like you said that you have to be unable *able* to make compromises. "Is unable to do compromises" is difficult to define. How do you differentiate between not able and not wanting? Otherwise it would be called something like a hardliner party. (Which often applies to both parties, but doesn't necessarily have to apply. Extremism in Germany is, as you sad, only defined as intentions that are directed against one of the basic principles of the state: human dignity, the principle of democracy and the rule of law.)
@@to.l.2469 Right, it's not about whether a party can or wants to compromise. There are procedures for this, such as the election of the Federal Chancellor, a constructive vote of no confidence or new elections. This is provided for in our constitution(s). Politics is just the way (the art) of finding majorities (on the basis of the law and the constitution).
Extremism is really about whether a party wants to destroy the democratic order like the separation of powers and take away our basic rights. (like human dignity, the principle of equality, free, equal and secret elections, etc.) - i.e. about our basic democratic order.
Article 20 of the Grundgesetz (Constitution) says (1) "The Federal Republic of Germany is a democratic and social federal state. (...)") The AfD, for example, talks about denying social assistance to those in need, depriving people who are dependent on state benefits of the right to vote, depriving people of their citizenship so that they can be deported - things like that are extremism.
To use a (rough) analogy: You can't negotiate with someone about whether they murder you or not. In my opinion this persons simply belongs in prison because of threats, intimidation or something like that. In any case, you don't give him a weapon - or, even worse, let him write the law and let him control the police and the courts.
Personally as a German, I still trust the government, but this trust has been reduced in the pandemic (but not for the reasons you might think).
Before the pandemic I had this (probably naive) idea, that while the politicians may have different ideas how to achieve the goal of a economically, healthy and socially well situated Germany, they did everything they could to achieve this while considering every option and listening to expert advice. Basically my idea was that since they represented the people, they had to act somewhat better then and put aside own personal opinions.
But I feel like both populism and fear of unfavorable decisions - lest they lose votes in the next election - has took hold and is preventing sensible actions rooted in science.
Now the population is left alone with a virus that most are just pretending to not see, while it inflames brains and hearts, and disables at least 10 out of 100 people.
And the worst is that so many studies have been coming out since 2020 and while I do not expect the average citizen to keep up with everything, I expect politicians to care about these threats and do their best to protect the public, *_because that is their job._*
I'm just sad about all of this.
You can't imagine how much I love your dialect, Mert - and your reactions too, of course! Very warm greetings from Germany👵👋
Trust in the system.
Multiple parties in our Bundestag (Federal Parliament), in each of our federal states, in our counties and town governments.
(Plus independents especially at the local level.)
Kudos for not skipping the ad from the original video. 👍🏼
22:20 Freiburg is an important center of higher education; you can expect a lot of protesters to be students and politically interested people.
Well many cities in Germany have universities. You could say the same about cities like Regensburg and Lübeck as well. Freiburg has noticed an influx of more green environmentally concious and alternativ (e.g. esotheric) people moving there. Up Until the 80s or so it was a very conservative CDU city
@@hhbased You could say that strange people live in BaWü that oppose Corona Lockdowns and believe little sugar balls can cure your medical condition
And Freiburg is close to France where protesting is natural. 😜 Maybe it rubs off. ;-) - And I can name you cities in Thuringia where they protest a lot and these are often not the brightes candles on the cake.
Ever been to Göttingen? It's realy not tied to the city of Freiburg.
Economically Freiburg is more important than you think. Look up Ordoliberalism (=Freiburger Schule) which to this day influences German economics in a profound way
There are three things about the German voting system which probably increase trust in the government:
1) In a Bundestagswahl (federal election), you have TWO votes: One for a person who you think would represent your district, and the second (more important) vote for a party whose list of candidates is published long before the election.
2) The multi-party system instead of just a bilateral one. It mostly forces parties to work on a Koalitionsvertrag (coalition contract) and form a coalition in order to have a majority in government, so there must be compromises, and as this all is public, voters can check whether "their" party represented their interests well or rather not so and decide otherwise next time.
3) The Bundeskanzler (federal chancellor, head of government) is NOT directly elected by the people. The parties decide on one person to represent them, and of course there are TV debates among the candidates, and people say, "I vote for [person]", but in fact, you vote for the party and what they stand for, not the chancellor. I admit that German campaigning has become somewhat Americanized in recent years, but it still isn't so personality-centered as in the U.S., and that keeps things a little bit calmer and down to more rational thinking.
German is an Federal State, so "the Germans" are differing a lillte by location. We always were different tribes in the history believing in electing the best as chief. It also went terrible wrong when there was only 1 Ruler... nowadays there is a lot of influencing e.g. Russia is supporting right and left; Katar is supporing islamic media; young people are radicalising for environmental activists - a good reason and glue on the streets... but nowadays we have shared power in the country, so all the influencing will not change the idea of democracy and a federal state ;-)
1. Police is better trained in Germany 2. The police's job is to help citizens, not just punish them 3. The government cares, sometimes more, sometimes less, about the population 4. Courts are independent 5. Germany has many more parties, so everyone has the opportunity to find themselves in politics. The German way is not perfect, but in my opinion better than the US system 6. Germany has a (still) well-functioning healthcare system 7.Germany has a social market economy not only capitalism. 8. We have secularism. Germany in all is not perfect, but we still work on it..
I don‘t think Germany has secularism. Christian church and Germany are tightly bonded: Tax is fined by the state, Church has special laws in many domains, some public buildings are required to have a cross on the wall, …
1.Yes, they are trained to discipline citizens and otherwise look the other way.
2. Well... The beating up of Stuttgart 21, Mistreating spectators and pregnant women at Berlin CoVid protests (where even the UNO human rights officer felt the need to protest).
Small interjection regarding the police: Of course there are a lot of good people in public service. But to use a German saying "The fish stinks from the head"
3. Rather "more less" than "more or less". Roth - "You lousy piece of sh..", Baerbock - "I give a sh. on my voters' thoughts", Habeck - "thinks love of country sucks and admires the CCP".
4. Courts yes, unless you find a judge with a party book under his belt or a general attorney which are all the way bound to instructions of the minister of justice. Then you might feel some "dynamically interpreted jurisdiction".
5. Yes, a lot of parties with different programs and great words during election campaigns - unless they are in charge. Then suddenly next to all of them do the same thing. Merkel: "There is no way something being said before the election will be adhered to after the election".
6. Well, my wife and her cousin and the cousins husband all work in the health care system. I think you were daydreaming writing such lines? Even doctors leave the hospitals in droves. You have to be really sick to get an appointment with a specialist. In many places you simply wait 3-6 months.
7. Yes. And the government does all they can to remove "market" and "economy" from this equation.
8. Yes, unless the islamists the government invited since a decade will start their own state under sharia law... I know there were only 2500 protesting for a califate - but you know in the 3rd reich also only a small percentage of people were really in-depth nazis, right? And these 10% or so were aggressive enough to push the whole country into their direction.
Right. And not to mention the dinners members of the government regularly have with the judges of the supreme court. But wait for it, being called nazi or schwurbler in 3...2...1...@@TheCyberCore
@@TheCyberCore Hitler represented political views, so people could vote for him or not. He never got more than 30% of the vote, so he would have had no chance of coming to power - until the Center Party decided to give him a chance and form a coalition with him. (That's why the firewall to the AfD is so important today!)
On the other hand, you have to be a Muslim to vote for a caliphate or a sharia state. No non-Muslim will ever vote for Sharia or the caliphate, I think we can agree on that? With 5% Muslims - not all of whom are in favor of a Caliphate or Sharia - I'm pretty sure this isn't an issue to lose sleep over.
@@TheCyberCore Well-spoken, are a couple quotes might have been a bit more accurate and Roth and Antifa, and against Germany.
Only the last point is not quite so simple. Of course, you have to deliberately Germany and in all directions against the wall and it concerns not only in Germany, makes even the police on the instructions of the things that are punishable by law and not by the laws covered, the laws all the time, anyway rewritten, broken, setback, etc..... Scandal judgments, Some acts are not followed, or only reluctantly, if the offender was not German, etc.
Only at that time it was a little more complicated, different and the history of certain people, for all the wars and politicians, their lackeys write, until today that is. In the East and the West.
As a German I took part in many protests. Nearly every year in the pride parade (CSD), I joined multiple mass demonstrations for more climate protection and a joined a few demonstrations for democracy against extreme right like AfD.
Things are quite a bit more just in a representative political system as in the older democracies. Here, living in a big city with lots of voters, not only the politician with the most votes got into parliament, but also two of his direct adversaries (at least one of them a brilliant politician, too), and also another member of the winning party, so we are pretty darn well represented in Berlin. People may differ in that respect, but I have always understood that the government... that is me... to a small shard of that one vote. So I cannot be to cross with it. If I have complaints, I can walk just a few minutes right into the office of any one of the winning candidates and vent my anger, or better, tell why things should be different, and how to accomplish that.
Freiburg is a University town: many students and students per se are more engaged in politics. However, there are many big Universities all over Germany, but the political engagement seem to differ depending on the main subjects the University is known for: law, economics, politics, science etc. as well as the main income source of the cities the Uni is located. E.g.: a citiy like Frankfurt am Main being the financial hub and mostly known for law and economy studens will not have the same "protest scene" as a city like Freiburg, Heidelberg, Mainz etc. Despite Frankfurt bringing the first "green" minister (Fischer) to power 😉
Please, continue your journey with "the Black forest familiy" now known as "Type Ashton". She is great.
I can Agree on that :)
Always gotta be careful listening to the interpretation of statistics from someone who isn't an expert, often it reflects their personal view more then anything else.
IMO you've got to be especially careful when that persons views align with your own, because that's where you let your guard down, and it can amplify stereotypes which can lead to the divide between people she was talking about.
There are 4 levels of democratic vote: The Town, the Federal, the state and the EU.
My trust is the highest on our town. Here I can see the problems with my own eyes and I can talk to the other citizens and to the politicians directly. If we decide to protest for a development in our town, our impact is high and things are changing. One of our parties in town is unique in our town. You can only vote it here for this town. Over 20 years ago this party of town was found because of a episode of corruption. For big deals on higher political levels politicians of the big parties betrayed our town. It was a sell out. And the assholes promoted on higher political levels. Since we have this unique party in our civil council we are protesting if the politicians of this townparty raise the alarm.
In other towns in our neigbohood it was the same. Since they have their unique party of town, they have less problems with corruption. You can't make shady deals on higher political levels for your own career, if your party only works in your town.
The second highest trust I have in the EU.
Why?
Because our state and our federal gouverment often makes decicions on paper but they don't plan to offer the money to implement the new laws. It's a bad joke! So we often have new rights, but the institutions makes it difficult for the citizens to get their rights. They implement the laws after the EU said: "You have to." or if a lot of citizens had won at german courts (a lot of years later). For people who don't have a lot of money it's a bad play.
But if the EU or my town decide something, they plan directly the money it needs to implement the new law.
The second reason for my trust in the EU: They look more on future problems. Our german society is very old. Most of the voters are old. And they don't want to see the problems we have with digitization, climate change, childcare, education, demografic change. The older ones don't wanna lose any of their privileges. And the politicians on federal and state level closed their eyes in the last decades. Compared with other States of Europe Germany is outdated.
On the European level I can vote for european parties that are not as outdated as german parties.
And the third reason for my trust in the EU: Our military is down. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall we have degraded it. We lived in the beautiful illusion that we never again have to fight. Most of the Germans between 1 and 45 years never learnd how to defence our country. We can develope great weapons. But we can only produce and sell them in small numbers. After two days of war we wouldn't have any munition. Germany can't defence itself.
And it will take one decade to chance this.
I can Agree on that :)
Type Ashton is a great channel. She does good videos about politics, cultur - and raising kids in Germany, if you are interested :)
She always does a excellent research, but important things happened after her video: Less trust in government, more extremist, more protests and a government that is at least not very good in communicating their decisions. And yes: The right to fight for your opinion in protests are a crucial part of a democracy. This is the part that dies first when a government changes into a autocracy. They are afraid of the power of protesting people.
I can Agree on that :)
The statistics from the USA cannot be directly transferred to German political spheres. The reason why ALL right-wing individuals trust the government more than left-wing individuals is less about the government itself and more about the associated power.
Personally, I have an extremely pronounced left-leaning political ideology. If I were inclined to rule over others and tell them what to do, I couldn't be left-wing. On the other hand, right-wing individuals aspire to power, to a monopoly on force. This applies regardless of whether we are talking about the average street Nazi or even Hitler himself.
For a leftist, the most important thing is to allow every individual to live as they see fit, respecting other cultures and religions and not exerting pressure to conform and assimilate. Right-wing ideology, on the other hand, is essentially based on telling others what to do from a position of power.
And since it is ultimately the government and the legislation associated with it that imposes rules on a country, right-wing individuals are inevitably tied to their parties or their political authority.
The information of "Type Ashton" formerly known as "The Black Forrest Family" about elections seems to be a little incorrect.
For the European Parliament, the minimum age in Germany used to be 18 and has been changed to 16 recently, so for the first time in two weeks (June 9th, 2024), 16 and 17 yrs. old are allowed to vote.
At the federal election, the minimum age was originally 21 and was altered to 18 in the 70s. However, the law to reduce the age for elections to 16 in 2022 did not get the necessary majority in Parliament. But the topic is still under discussion.
In state elections, 6 states allow a minimum age of 16 while 10 states require a minimum age of 18.
In local elections, 9 states allow a minimum age of 16, while 7 states require the age of 18.
On a referendum the minimum age is 16, however, there's no referendum allowed by the constitution on the federal level since MPs want to have all the power for the 4-year legislation period and don't want to share it with the citizens.
On protests: Since 2019, I regularly take part in climate protests of Fridays for Future, twice a year on average (and occasionally of Extinction Rebellion), I went to Luetzerath three times and one time to Essen to protest against electrical power production by burning brown coal, this year I also protested for better public transport and fair conditions and payment for the public transport employees and after a secret plan of the right-wing AfD emerged that they want to "re-migrate" a two-digit number of millions of people with foreign roots, even if they have the German citizenship and have been born here, I participated in mass protests against the AfD. And to answer your question about trust, in Germany, the right-wing people distrust the Government and media the most and we do even have people who refuse to accept their citizenship of the Republic and insist on being citizens of "the Reich".
Young people should be voting. They are the ones who should have to have a say in the results because that governments form the future and with no disrespect, most politicians are pretty old. They are not the ones who have to live in that future.
In den letzten Jahren hat sich ein sonderbares Politikverständnis eingeschlichen, dass Politik hauptsächlich für die nächste(n) Generation(en) gemacht werden sollte. Das ist ein Aspekt von vielen, aber ich lebe jetzt und das sollte zumindest auch bewertet werden. Ich meine nicht "nach mir die Sintflut", aber bei allem Respekt, wir älteren stellen nunmal die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung.
@@KTanit Ich habe ja auch nicht gesagt ihr sollt gar nicht wählen. Ihr habt ja immer noch die Mehrheit, auch wenn jüngere wählen dürfen. Der Unterschied wäre, dass eine Gruppe von Leuten endlich eine Stimme bekommen würde die momentan überhaupt keine Stimme hat. Und die Politik trifft auch langfristige Entscheidungen. Z.B. die Verlegung von Kupferkabeln statt Glasfaser in den 90ern. Hat jetzt eine krasse Auswirkung, auch wenn es 30 Jahre her ist.
@@flauschiger_keks Verstehe. Die Kabel waren ein Geschenk an Herrn Kirsch (Medienmogul/RTL), den besten Buddy von Kanzler Kohl. Daran hätten auch junge Leute in der Regierung damals nichts dran gerüttelt und ein junger Kanzler ist auch nicht zwangsläufig unanfällig für Korruption. Aber ich verstehe deinen Standpunkt.
@@flauschiger_keks Zusätzlich werden ziemlich zukunftsorientiere Entscheidungen bei Klimaschutz und Energie getroffen, dass hier die Jüngsten nicht mitreden können ist eigentlich schon echt ne Farce.
I can Agree on that :)
Traditionally, there are large protests on the 1st of may. It‘s the day of the workers so they are protesting for better working conditions.
28:40 That is actually not correct. Reducing the voting age was debated, but strongly opposed by conservatives, and is still "on hold". But at the elections to the European parliament it will be 16, and the state of Baden-Württemberg (where she lives) has reduced the voting age to 16 for state and local elections (active suffrage). This year are for the first time 16 year olds are even the first time eligible for election (passive suffrage) in local elections. Imho the number of politically immature 18 years olds is about the same as the number of politically mature 16 years olds.
I can Agree on that :)
It's kinda sad brits protest not even half as often as germans,who are really not big at protest.no comparison to france.
I can Agree on that :)
Freiburg is a university city and has a history of ecologically motivated protests. There are other university cities like Tübingen or Marburg with a similarly active "scene", but those are generally smaller.
Voting Age for communal elections has always been 16, but has only recently been lowered for the Bundestagswahl.
I'm sorry, but that's not correct. Until the 1990s age limit for communal elections was 18.
In some federal states the voting age for communal elections still is 18.
The age limit for the national parliament (Bundestag) is still 18.
Unless I am grossly mistaken, which I don’t think I am, the Bundestag voting age still is 18. Only the upcoming elections for the European Parliament have a voting age of 16.
You can not vote for Bundestag at the age of 16.
Depending on which path of the German education system you found yourself on at age 16 you might be graduating and starting a dual apprenticeship. At that point I think participation in elections in absolutely valid since you start taking on adult responsibilities and policies will effect your daily life to a greater extent. Alternatively you might still be in school with 2 to 3 more years of preparation for university ahead of you. To my knowledge classes of first time voters will cover this topic in either politics class or history class. So yeah, I think the young peeps have every right to vote.
friend of mine graduated the Hauptschule with 14 and started his apprenticeship mere days before his 15 birthday. so technically he was part of the working class with 14 and per your point able to vote, granted that is an outlier. back then i would have liked to vote too with 16, now in my 30s i look back and don't even trust my 21 year old self.
Never trust anyone...so,the government also not...🤷
Ashton always is a good source.
Good reaction, keep up the great work!
In general, the media in Germany, especially public broadcasting, are more left-wing.
It is advisable to use alternative German media too as a comparison.
What you're saying here was mainly in the Bild newspaper, a tabloid with a very wide reach and a fairly "right-wing conservative" slant. In fact, the public broadcasters do not report particularly (!!) left-wing, but locates itself in the general spectrum of a pluralistic media system (in which Bild takes an exceptionally conservative position, btw.).
@@BernhardGiner Thanks!
Proportional Representation is all in all much better than majoritarian FPTP. Sadly 2011 the UK rejected to switch to AV Alternate Vote and PR.
In Berlin we pretty much have Protests every day.
Who cares Berlin?😁😉
@@assellator7298 Apparently not you
Protesting and demonstrations are a wonderfull expression of the right of free speak here in germany. I perssonell welcome every kind of expression of opnion, BUT if this protest cuts my right to go wherever I want to it is much over the edge. If someone glues himself on the middle of the road and let me stuck in a traffic jam it's got nothing to do with freedom of speach, because noone should use a right to cut the rights of others!
Damaging a piece of art and let others don't see it anymore is no protest, that's vandalism... And I apologize the old german tribe of the Vandals, they weren't never that evil and destructiv like some of that protesters 😜
Oh yes, poor boy cannot drive from A to B with his precious car on one day the way he wanted. Do you get the sense of demonstrations at all? 🙄
@@bastian6625 Well, who said by car?! 👀🤔
A Bus can stuck in traffic jam, even a tram or what about an ambulance...
Imagine the poor boy had an accident at point A and drives as a passenger in an ambulance to the hospital, point B, where to get urgent needed medical treatment like a surgery for example to save poor boys life.
And now, please enlight all the poor boys about the sense of demonstrations and what weighs more the right for freedom of free speach or poor boys right of physical integrity? 🤔
@@felixropke9777 What? So, first, a bus or car can be stuck in traffic for 1 million reasons outside of demonstrations. But also tells a lot that you blame climate activists again, instead of idiotic farmer protests or anti vax etc demos .
And to enlight you. Demonstrations are not more or less important than freedom of speech. It's one of the rights people should use in a democratic country. I live in Italy, have lived in France and other countries that demonstrate much more than Germans... so believe me, you will survive these few times you are stuck in traffic because of this.
@@bastian6625 "so believe me, you will survive these few times you are stuck in traffic because of this." This you have to tell the bicycle driving lady in Berlin that lay under a concrete mixer truck and was waiting for the fire engine with the heavy equipment that was stuck cause of some climate aktivists that glued themselves on the road.. but wait, you can't tell her, because she's dead.
Okay, back to the main issue. I guess you didn't read my comment right or missunderstood me. I personally was on several demonstrations in Brockdorf, Schacht Conrad, Assse and so on. I used my right of free speach many times on demonstrations to protest against "Endlagerstätten" final storage of atomic waste and on some other issues. This is very importent and I welcome it, but it's a problem for me if others get in danger or pieces of art were damaged.
So what's more importent the freedom of speach, that's what demonstrations and protests are, or the right to survive?
It's both!
And if you life in a democratic society you have to watch out that both rights get noticed in the same way! And all the other democratic rights, too!
So please don't ask me if I got a sense of demonstration, I know the worth of free speach, it insulted me and I guess the only 44 year old lady from Berlin, too.
I can Agree on that :)
Trust No 1 ...
I can Agree on that :)
У бывшей Германии нет и не может быть никакой самостоятельной политики. После подрыва американцами газопровода, всему миру абсолютно ясно, что территория бывшей Германии теперь является не более чем американской колонией. Будущее немцев незавидно. Постепенно их вытеснят с традиционных мест обитания арабские и африканские переселенцы. Единственное место, где традиционные немецкие семьи еще могут рассчитывать на нормальную жизнь - Россия. Но потомки идейных фашистов России тоже не нужны.
Actual political Situation in this english talk: ruclips.net/video/WfuIUCnhfKE/видео.htmlsi=i5AxOYo1KrcmYw9v
HELL NO! Paul Brandenburg is an absolute No-Go.
That guy is right wing extremism and corona scepticism with conspiracy flavor. He showed here on YT and on Twitter how to fake vaccacination certificates, got banned, he named our government "fascist" and he called out for civil disobedience and uprising. This is especially sad since he should've known better at least about the pandemic as a former emergency physician.
In France they protest every day and way more Violent. Not torwards people bot Cars Houses and Public owned stuff
There are definitely also big clashes with the police (which itself is very violent).
Roses are red🌹
The bomb goes boom 💥
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27:40 so funny to see that she doesnt even know the difference between democratie and a democratic republic LoL
With a voting age of 16 the average first voter is 18. With a voting age of 18 the oldest first voters would be 22.
Given that there's so many more older voters than younger and us millennials or even Gen X haven't yet replaced boomers as the gerontocrats, yep, it's very very sensible to have a young voting age. They're just too used to things going their way, making them believe that if they're well off then that's right for everyone.
in germany, after facing fascism themselves under hitler and nationalsocialism, the post world war II german leaders made important decision to lay out a culture for socialising, cultural reshaping and managing the WEST german country. (EAST germany was under soviet regime influence and had to integrate later into 1990s german culture and government)
everyone should be able to form an informed opinion.
everyone should be free from peer pressure and voice their opinion without hatespeech. have the right to protest by law! the government wants to you to protest , in orderly manner, and they can see what kind of change the populations wants.
everyone should have option to train their participation and voting and shaping in the registered "eingetragene Verein, e.V." , basically learning democracy lightversion, having plenum, regular meetings, social justice, which by law must have low cost memberships, like 5 euro per month, so every citizen can participate and have volunteers as managers without payment and spans betweeen fishing verein, volunteer firebrigade freiwillige feuerwehr, chess club, all sorts of gym and sports like football, golf, martial art, tennis, cycling, car club, samaritan care, hospice care, crafts, knitting, repair cafe, basically what ever you can think of for all age groups and social class!
The world war one and two between Germany and France lead to forming the European Union, more trust, cooperation between themselves and that led to open even the borders too.
the world war 2 led to deep reflection on how to prevent fascism, how to prevent autocracy, how to prevent holocaust and bitter poverty and economic that lead to desperate choices.
so to prevent fascism and autocracy, the media, tv and radio must stay independent from state and government in germany and i live as migrant for decades in germany we pay like every german who has a regular income within a treshhold, monthly mandatory fee for it, that is strong (retired, disabled, students, poor people dont pay).
also people must have the right without any repercussion to protest orderly, like not destroying art pieces, but march the streets , not only speaking mind.
the worker unions must be involved into every workers right and protect workers but also co-work with the companies, they are not enemies but figure out what is best for everyone, win-win for all.
schools and teachers are teaching to form own opinion after thorough reseach and be objective, especially in the last 3 years of highschool, highschool is 3 years long.
after living here in germany nearly 50 years ,living in different german regions, going here to german schools, universties, working with germans of all age, all social class, i can tell you one thing: germans dont have, do not and will not trust in the government, bc they are mature enough to think for themselves and make the decisions. we , the ones here who grew up in germany, just dont go for plain in sight rebells and solutions, we overpower by voting for other systems.
germans and me learned to only trust in our selves!!! we are the result of that said post world war 2 culture, we are brought up to think for ourselves and express it, and that is one of many reasons why germans are perceived as too direct, too honest, too impolite or even arrogant, lol. we are not result of current or of last 10 years governing, but people having made important decisions how the society should be shaped and what tools the people should have and get, from rights, privileges, to options after world war 2 ended.
there is not real trust thing what ashton tries to explain here in germany, she lacks totally the social and political information that comes directly from european history. the germans and french were many times under one ruler united, then came the wars, splits, the religious wars, the french monarchy and german dictatorship and east germany living under pressure of the soviet style thought-police under soviert era and influence with no option to express opinion or publicly critisize the government.
if you ask a german "do you trust in your government" they will laugh in your face, and its not whatever position they have from left to middle or right, its not about that. no one trust in government, its not about trust itself, but giving for a short periode of time, for a percentage, through indirect democracy, some politicians some power, but that is not under trust but under controll of the people, but not also not under constant neurotic mistrust either, its just about being aware all the time!!! that is the big difference!
we trust in our abiltiy to choose right from wrong , be aware of the current government and if the governments in europe do not follow the people, they will face big revolts and world war 3.
we are not joking anymore in europe bc we dont like getting fooled and mislead and we are the result of the democratic ideas of the past. and its not patriotic act as ashton puts totally wrong, its democratic act to protest, lol, she sounds like that right-wing-activists sound in germany, only they will talk about patriotism without regarding paneuropean identity, or humanistic,democratic ideas, lol.
freiburg is one of many towns with a university, and its not special as ashton makes it, she has not lived and worked in hamburg, köln, dresden, frankfurt, magdeburg, rostok, mainz, leipzig, etc. protests happen in every town for anything, lol.
Doch! Freiburg ist in dieser Hinsicht besonders (und das bedeutet nicht, dass es nicht auch andere Städte gibt, die hier ihre Besonderheiten haben). Freiburg ist schlichtweg die nachhaltigste und ökologisch fortschrittlichste Großstadt Deutschlands. Das hat Gründe in der Bevölkerung und deren politischem Engagement über viele Jahrzehnte.
Es hat einen Grund, warum "NotJustBikes" aus den Niederlanden in Deutschland eben genau Freiburg besucht und vorgestellt hat.
Auch Ashton hat ein tolles Video darüber, wo Sie auch noch mehr Material bzgl. der Protestkultur der Stadt zeigt (beispielsweise wie sich eher linke und grüne Ökohippies und konservative Landwirte schon vor Jahrzehnten im Protest gegen ein AKW vereinigten).
Auch Anfang diesen Jahres fiel Freiburg dadurch auf, dass die protestierenden Bauern, die ja von den Rechten eigentlich möglichst umfassend _für_ die AfD vereinnahmt werden _sollten,_ sich gleich nach Ihrer eigenen Demo umdrehten und der großen Demo gegen Rechts anschlossen.
Wenn verschiedene Menschen zusammenarbeiten, sich konstruktiv _für_ etwas einsetzen, an Lösungen feilen (und nicht immer nur dagegen sind), dann kann etwas entstehen. Ich selbst lebe nicht in Freiburg, aber ebenfalls in einer hauptsächlich grün und insgesamt progressiv regierten Stadt, die nun dem o.g. Beispiel (oder auch Utrecht, wenn Sie wollen) in etwa nacheifert. Ich kann nur sagen, dass ich sehr zufrieden mit unserer lokalen Regierung bin. Es trudeln auch bereits die ersten Preise und Auszeichnungen ein.
I can Agree on that :)
That's our freedom of speech, protest n democracy, even some idiots abuse this privilege! D/A/G
16/18 years - Voting: How can you encourage young people to get informed and participate in democracy if you don't let them decide with their fellow citizens? You are subject to duties and laws even if you are under 18, but you have to wait to get your full rights until you are 18. This could lead to the famous “Nobody cares about me and my opinion, so why should I care about society?”.
I think it's fair and a good approach to let young people vote earlier because it's also their future and they should have a say in choosing the government. Taking responsibility is part of growing up, individually and politically.
Moreover, young people are not a population group that can shift entire elections in one direction or another; allowing them to participate will not overturn society politically.
Those numbers are completly invalid today. Beginning with the migrant crisis in 2016, still under the Merkel administration, the decline in trust has picked up speed more and more. The real crash came with the pandemic counter measures that ruined millions of people. And today our politics are totally out of their minds. Even Volker Pispers could not have imagined the things they decide now every day. Latest example: a pensioner who get €1000 per month is granted a pension raise of 4.57% from Jully on - a MP with monthly €10,000 is granted a 6% raise. That shows what people can expect from the German government.
And the different perception in Swizerland is not because of wars - its because the Swiss people actually get asked what their opinion is, regarding political decisions. And that not only in farcical elections, like in the US or Germany.
So you write _your own_ personal impressions from _your own_ (political) viewpoint here as if it was researched facts? Not nice. 🙄
I'm sorry, but I just _have_ to add some truth to it: The trust in and the satisfaction with politics during corona-times was actually much higher (!) than it had been at least _for decades_ ! Surveys clearly show that (see: infratest dimap -> ARD-Deutschlandtrend -> slide 8).
Not everybody was or is a "Querdenker" *, that's just a few.
And from what and how you write, you probably are one of them too, am I right?
The height of parlamentarians' diets _can_ be critisized and _they are_ beeing critisized of course. But this is nowhere near new: Those diets have been linked with the general wages over 10 years ago. If this is rising so much right now, that means wages are rising also and we are maneuvering out of inflation and kind of economic crisis times (that crisis was mainly caused by Putin and our former gas-dependency btw., most people here know that).
Lastly: You are writing about our migrant crisis in 2016 (that one was _also_ mainly caused by Putin and his friend, remember Aleppo?).
_Then_ you go on writing about Volker Pispers. Pispers is nowhere near right-wing politically, just so that you know. Although he has retired, he has crystal-clear statements about the AfD on his homepage. But those right wing populists (like you?) just don't care about his statements and they continue to _misuse_ his work for their antidemocratic goals and to downplay Putins cruel actions against Ukraine and other countries. Shame!
Good night.
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* Querdenker" = Lateral Thinker. Term for a group of opponents against general pandemic measures and vaccacines in Germany, often with severe lack of foresight, less solution-oriented situation-understanding and clearly empathy-deficient towards others like vulnerable people and healthcare workers. Most of them like consuming tons KGB and AfD and Trump/Bannon-supported populist misinfo... partly with severe and crazy conspiracy stories involved. Many of them are AfD-voters (and quite organized internet rambos) as of today.
Sadly, they are even entering lots of "foreign reacts" channels with their stories.
The US is too high on this ranking. And do you really need a "study" to tell you how fked up the US has become during the last ten years😂. They made even a new movie about the near future of the US. "Civil War". It is as bad as the situation. Just go for it and get over with.
This is an older chart, also the Black family video is from the pandemic years. With new info, the US would surely rank lower.
I dont trust our system/government. Never did. I am 30yo and I never felt represented by one of the governments we had since I turned 18.
I can Agree on that :)
Do you feel better represented with more parties?
I do not think so. There is always the danger that parties will form coalitions and a tiny, unimportant party will make the fool to the king.
I would be more in favor of MPs with a direct mandate from the constituencies. That's already the case, but there are far too many places from the list of the partys and let's be honest, that´s not the best people who go to the top of the list, but the best ass-kissers.
We have a person here who is the leader of a party (I don't want to mention the name because of the neutrality) who studied for 9 years without a degree, didn't achieve anything else, but was an assessor in all sorts of organizations and probably always had good things in their interests Superiors voted and therefore moved higher and higher on the list. She didn't even win her own constituency. You can't say that someone voted for this person.
They should get rid of the list places.
And protests?
There is little protest here and the last big protests were organized by the government and that is also suspicious when the government organizes protests against the opposition. And such protests are very well reported in the public media. There are fewer other protests and also with corresponding undertones. Well, be fair, in the private US media the neutrality is much worse.
Partei📘?
Say what you want ,Merkel was better in inducing trust.we didn't suffer in 2008 and during covid like the UK.(can already smell afd comments,always 😅)
yeah you can say the merkel did 2 times doing more or less nothing aside looking pissed all the time and overslept future investions she just wasted a lot of money but nothing near the cash the ampel burned already . its very sad that germany is by now without competent politicans since helmut schmidt and thats 42 years by now no wonder everthing is going to hell over here
There is a reason, why Merkel was liked by many. She is really progressive for someone being in a conservative party.
nope the only progressive thing she did was wasting a lot of cash and letting nearly 2 million muslims from lybia and syria into germany which raised the social costs and the criminal rate ...merkel was not the worsed but definitely not a good kanzler but against what we got right now she was gold .... its such a shitshow what happens in western politics today
@@Colorado0091 true.she reformed CDU.but failed in building up a succesor.one can argue,it's up to them,ok.
That is not Germany.
This is 🌈 Land. Former known as germany 🤣🤣🤣
The German goverment is the best in the World!
You have to mark this as sarcasm.Otherwise people will think you are serious.
When I get upset about our government DE again, I look to the USA and everything is good again!!!
As long as you're white
@@arnodobler1096 👍