While Germany has a far-right party, the AfD, Alternative für Deutschland, which received 10.4% of the vote in 2021, there really is no equivalent to the low-brow MAGA movement in the United States.
Perhaps that’s because the average German is far better educated than most modern-day Americans, or because Germany underwent one of world history’s most catastrophic events in terms of humanitarianism in the 1930s/40s, and the remembrance of it continues to affect the national ethos.
In any case, as shown at left, the vast majority of the German people understand that environmentalism is the only thing that can possibly save our home planet from ruin. There is something to be said for that.
As shown below, there are tons of large clean energy projects slated for construction in the PJM (midAtlantic) region.
Once the Republicans’ war on renewables comes to a close, things could get interesting.
They are both the results of the human need to make sense of the world around us and to unravel life’s great mysteries.
The idea of a calm presentation of the news may have a certain surface-level appeal, and, at most points in history, that may have been completely appropriate.
But what about 1933 when Hitler was coming to power in Germany?
What about 2026 while Trump is destroying American democracy?
If you’re an American and you’re not infuriated, there is something profoundly defective in you.
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