Who to vote for? – Ask your children, grandchildren!

Who to vote for? – Ask your children, grandchildren!

‘Everyone says they don’t know what to vote for,’ I just read this morning with the German elections just one more day ahead.

I don’t believe that.

The majority of German voters will once again vote for those they have always voted for out of tradition – without any hesitation or thought: the workers will vote for the SPD, the farmers for the CDU, the traders for the FDP, the ‘68ers for the Greens. Further east in the new federal states, no tradition has yet been able to develop. There, the AFD has gained strength for the disappointed angry citizens. The Left Party and the BSW would also not exist without the German East. The large group of non-voters who, disgusted by the dysfunctional ritualistic political circus, …more >

But reflection would not be a bad thing.

And indeed, there are those who do think. They are a minority, of course. They realise that they really have no choice in the elections. The representatives of the parties with the prospect of representation in the Bundestag, who have been elevated to leading figures, are all making promises for the future of our small Germany that they cannot keep anyway (more thoughts on this here).

Yet they all know that neither the current situation nor the prospects are rosy, that the course must be set for a future that many of the voters will not even live to see.

It is our children, our grandchildren, who will have to live with our decisions – decisions that will probably be wrong decisions without this long-term perspective.

So who should you vote for now?

Better ask those who are affected, your children, your grandchildren.