[thi2]

That has to be about a different Angela Merkel, the one I know had one priority: preserving status quo.

[btilly]

She also was for making Germany economically dependent on gas pipelines to Russia, even though she knew that she was funding Russia's war in Ukraine.

I am not inclined to give her a free pass on that.

[FirmwareBurner]

Which recent German politician in power wasn't about preserving the status quo? The entire country and culture is all about the status quo.

[riffraff]

I'm. It sure of the "recent" definition but Schroeder's tenure brought a lot of changes (which one can argue against, but it was not conservative).

[Aeolun]

> slow and steady presence

> preserving status quo

That sounds like the same thing to me?

[netsharc]

Feh, Merkel created conditions for the rise of right wing fascism... IMO.

She and her finance minister championed austerity uber alles, squeezing the middle and lower class across the EU, and then she said refugees were welcome. I agree with the idea of helping people fleeing bombs and bullets, but after decades of saying there's money, we need to watch our budgets, suddenly there's money? Nooo fucking wonder the populist right managed to grasp on to the disillusionment of the lower/middle class.