How to get a balanced view of Europe?
2024-09-04 12:23:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
Big changes in Germany apparently, they are going all far right all of a sudden. That’s that sort of thing that gives brits the ebbie jeebies. You know there was that war a while back and all that. I know it makes me sit up and raise my eyebrows. But is this really what’s going on?
I wonder if this is a bit of a storm in a tea cup blown up by the Guardian to look like some major thing.
I’m suspicious of the current Europe narrative painted in the media because:
- the choice of image in the article is maybe a bit inflamatory to anti-supremacist sentiment?
- the way UK political commentators characterise US politics just doesn’t square with much of what I've heard online in podcasts
- the US right commentators do make some good observations, helpful no matter what side of politics you are on
- how did UK politics go from being the basket case of Europe to the sensible ones in just a hop, skip and an election? Come on what are the chances?
I’m not hating on the Rest is Politics guys, I like their show, but science has repeatedly demonstrated over the years that the capacity for humans to fool ourselves is practically limitless.
So where can we get a balanced view? Are there moderate german right leaning podcasts out there? I just wish I spoke german.