In view of the current crisis and the way the rulers are handling it, fewer and fewer people have any illusions about parliamentarism, and the new federal government in particular is not in a position to give the masses any hope that anything will actually change for them.
This is also evident from a Forsa survey in which 62% of respondents said they had no confidence in any bourgeois party. This compares with just 25% who believe that the traffic light coalition is best able to solve the current problems. Only 13% think the chancellor's party is the best choice.
So the government has no real support among the population, its boss and his party are rejected by the vast majority, and most people don't actually trust the existing parties anyway. And this situation is hardly surprising. After the bourgeois parties conducted a desperate and futile campaign to breathe life into parliamentarism in the summer, basically none of the parties are keeping the promises they made to the masses.
The traffic light coalitionists have simply dropped basic demands in order to grab their place in government. Be it in matters of climate policy in the case of the Greens or the SPD's abandonment of the introduction of a wealth tax, to name just two examples. However, many people are particularly angry in view of the about-face that almost all parties have made on the issue of the so-called Corona measures. After repeated promises over a period of several months that there would be no further lockdown and no compulsory vaccination, they are now trying to push through precisely these measures, which were still clearly rejected during the election campaign. First and foremost, FDP leader and Finance Minister Lindner spoke out against mandatory vaccination, saying it was "not proportionate" and "highly problematic on constitutional grounds." Since he took up his post in the new government, however, he has held exactly the same view as his colleagues and thus voted, for example, in favor of compulsory vaccination in nursing homes. Has the constitution changed since his previous statement? No. He simply doesn't care about it, as other representatives of the ruling class have also repeatedly demonstrated in the past year.
The German government under Olaf Scholz also wants to officially launch a general vaccination requirement, contrary to its promises in the election campaign. De facto, this vaccination obligation already exists anyway in view of the considerable restrictions that unvaccinated people have to accept in their daily lives.
After initially allowing the "epidemic emergency of national scope" to expire, the Bundestag has now once again created the basis for introducing further restrictive measures at the state level.
All of this is in response to the government's own inability or refusal to actually get a grip on the pandemic. Instead of solving the problems that still exist in care, instead of tackling the ailing healthcare system and increasing actual capacity, they are now punishing those who have so far had to bear the brunt of the pandemic by undermining their right to physical integrity.
In the process, the unvaccinated are demonized as the drivers of the pandemic in order to shift the blame for the ongoing measures onto them and thus further negate the character of the current crisis as an overproduction crisis that necessarily had to result from the imperialist system.
It is right that the majority of people do not put their trust in any electoral associations. It is right that most of them reject the new government, this cabinet of gangsters and demagogues.
It is good and right that people are starting to move more and more and also the contradictions between the parties and their electorate will increase in the face of the reactionary machinations of the new coalition agreement.
They are already trying to turn different sections of the masses against each other, pitting the unvaccinated and the vaccinated against each other to cover up their own failures. They will certainly continue to develop this policy and try to prevent a unified movement from forming against them. So for us, it must be about emphasizing our common class interest and continuing to expose and smash their demagoguery.
