Reply #35: Yes, "plague" fits much better... that's what I wanted to say [View All]

[michael_1166]

Regarding your friends in Berlin - well I guess if some criminals in suits would hijack our government, there also wouldn't be much protest in our streets anymore. It is very sad, but it looks like the time for political movements (like in the 70s and especially the 80s) is over.
We're a country with a high unemployment rate (around 12 %, I'm one of them), and the struggle for finding/keeping a job and upholding their status in society makes most people generally disinterested in politics. Not that they'd have to fear losing their job if they'd turn up at protests and demonstrations - it's just that they don't care anymore, as long as there's cheap beer in the fridge and silly entertainment on TV.
Bush's new torture/detention without trial law got reported here in the mainstream media, although it's not headline news. And so far I haven't heard any German politician or party commenting or condemning the fact that their "friend", the United States of America, just have turned into a dictatorship. I don't think their silence is because they are embarrassed, I think it's because they're accomplices. The future looks quite gloomy to me.