Germany’s Real Political Divide Is Generational
Germany is a peculiar country when it comes to good news about itself, too self-conscious and self-serious to accept anyone’s attempt to see it in a positive light. Every time a foreign newspaper writes about a German scientific achievement or the river surfers of Munich or the hipsters of Berlin, you can hear a low, collective moan: “We’re not cool,” it says. “We’re tragic!”
For years, the fear has been that anyone who tries to move beyond the country’s dark past is opening the door to a resurgence of far-right nationalism. But there are younger generations now, people who are fed up with German angst and pessimism and in utter need of 21st-century political leadership and debate.… Seguir leyendo »