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''The East German party.'' Marginalized themselves by inner fights and are perceived as ideological dead stranded. In their end phase | ''The East German party. [Also: Unemployed, poor and later: "diverse".]'' Marginalized themselves by inner fights and are perceived as ideological dead stranded. | ||
: This also meant a ''strategic (small) niche'': In a country with basically a neoliberal mindset ("Arbeit muss sich wieder lohnen"), people don't want themselves to see as "poor". [https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2023-07/soziale-ungleichheit-einkommen-armut-reichtum-rechner They tend to see themselves as middle class while they are not.] They want to work for money and not get ''embarrassing pittance''. | |||
In their end phase the Left lost two of three figureheads: [[wp:de:Oskar_Lafontaine|Lafontaine]] and [[wp:de:Sahra_Wagenknecht|Wagenknecht]]. They exited and founded the BSW. Only [[wp:de:Gregor_Gysi|Gysi]] remained. -- According to (ÖRR) TV interviews with campaign workers the Linke became [https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2021-06-06-LT-DE-ST/analyse-wanderung.shtml 2021] collateral damage by [[wp:Strategic_voting|strategic voting]] when their voters ballot for CDU, SPD and Greens to prevent AfD<!-- and therefore probably during other following elections-->. It's a strategy that will not be repeatable. | |||
Depending on how pressing the social question is (especially due to unemployment, low wages and precarious employment conditions), the political reservoir of the social democrats and thus of the Linke grows or shrinks (theoretically). -- Logic-wise the Linke should have been a wing of the Social Democrats, but due to its historical (SED) past it had a hard ideological core, which [[wp:de:Die_Linke#Wahlen|primarily affected]] the "new federal states" (East Germany) and thus maintained its (own) political weight. -- A ''significant amount'' of adherents can be located in the far-left spectrum. Due to old RAF connections/sympathies and members with left-wing extremist views, the Linke is [[wp:de:Beobachtung_der_Partei_Die_Linke_durch_den_Verfassungsschutz|partially monitored]] by the Verfassungsschutz. In the long term, the party will probably permanently fall below the 5% threshold. | Depending on how pressing the social question is (especially due to unemployment, low wages and precarious employment conditions), the political reservoir of the social democrats and thus of the Linke grows or shrinks (theoretically). -- Logic-wise the Linke should have been a wing of the Social Democrats, but due to its historical (SED) past it had a hard ideological core, which [[wp:de:Die_Linke#Wahlen|primarily affected]] the "new federal states" (East Germany) and thus maintained its (own) political weight. -- A ''significant amount'' of adherents can be located in the far-left spectrum. Due to old RAF connections/sympathies and members with left-wing extremist views, the Linke is [[wp:de:Beobachtung_der_Partei_Die_Linke_durch_den_Verfassungsschutz|partially monitored]] by the Verfassungsschutz. In the long term, the party will probably permanently fall below the 5% threshold. | ||