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Finn Schamerowski
@schamerowski.de

#Germany is not back in 1933. But saying everything is falling apart helps the far right. @brinkbaeumer.bsky.social explains why we should take problems seriously without losing faith in democracy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comIn Germany the mood is dark. But the Weimar narrative is a far right trap | Klaus BrinkbäumerThe final season of the TV epic Babylon Berlin is taking us back to 1933. Our confidence is falling apart, but that’s where the parallels end, says the German journalist Klaus Brinkbäumer
Finn Schamerowski
@schamerowski.de

'There is a danger in catastrophising so much that we cease to notice resilience, and progress, and that many things work just fine. German angst becomes German cynicism; cynicism turns to contempt; and, [...] contempt will make the AfD’s promise of destruction sound like the renewal we all need.'

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