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Yes. Question is - who? All parties suck across the board for me.
I can't vote right because I'm a human
I can't vote left because I got too much money for that
I can't vote black or red because nothing will happen or change, the country will just keep declining
I can't vote green because these people are actively ruining the country
I can't vote for one of the smaller parties that would actually fit much much better but they got 0 chance of getting into the parliament and I might aswell toss my vote out the window.
It's just such a sad state of affairs right now. Every major party fucks me sideways one way or the other lmao.
So you don't want to vote left because you only think about yourself but also red wouldn't change anything which you don't like. And greens ruin the country? Are you gonna spout shit about the Heizungsgesetz next?
You are making more than 7000β¬ a month or have more than a million bucks? It's time to pay your fair share.
Dunno, I'm looking at my tax statement for 2023 and I paid a metric fuckton of taxes already. I already paid my fair share.
I agree with you and don't feel that I'd support one of the big parties enough to cast my vote for them in a situation where it's pest vs cholera. But with the right being so clearly against humanity and democratic values I think the time has come to choose either pest or cholera over evil itself. Usually I voted for a small party that falls under the 5% but this time I won't, just because I'd rather cast my vote for a party that clearly positions themselves against the right and I can agree with in some ways than to not give it at all or cast it without any impact in the actual government.
So this is the modern voter suppression, everything sucks, nothing will change, so better to not vote at all. And who will gain in that?
Im not saying who you should vote, there is different tools to figure out what party fits your world views.
I'm not saying that I won't vote at all. I'm just saying that I'm having a very hard time deciding who to vote for.
Fill that, tweak values and do the parties main lines match your world views.
https://www.wahl-o-mat.de/
Not voting is accapting the extreme parties taking power.
Don't worry, I've done that already. The problem is that the parties at the top for me are all tiny parties without a realistic chance to win. If I only filter by parties that were elected last time, the first party is ... FDP at 55.7%. Then SPD at 54.3%. All other parties are below 50%.
It's tough electing a party that way.