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Green Party Losing Elections in Germany

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005 | European Union |

The Greens are Wilting:

Yet a boom in wind and garbage may matter little in the face of a broad cultural shift. If Cologne University sociologist and Greens expert Markus Klein is right, Germany is in the grip of a “values rollback,” away from the post-materialist values of the comfortable 1970s and ’80s

1 Comment to Green Party Losing Elections in Germany

Chris Range
July 12, 2005

The Germans are figuring out once again (they went through this once in the 1890s already) that if hippies ran the world there would be no heart surgery, PET scans, information technology, decent schools, roads or gene therapy.

But people *would* just randomly walk off with your stuff and tell you that there’s no such thing as property. “There’s just the community man.”

Imagine what toothpaste would taste like in a world ruled by hippies.

Les has a quote about “natural” toothpaste.

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