As everyone knew was going to happen, the German economy has totally collapsed and they’re staring down deindustrialization.
Of course, the government will always make sure the upper classes are totally insulated, and as much of the middle classes as possible, because the lower classes can’t do shit.
That’s a fact of reality. Peasants cannot do revolutions without leaders, and they are so dumb, the leaders are usually people with totally different motives than those stated (see the entire history of both communism and the US color revolutions).
You can grab the peasants and use them for good, however. If you had the will to power. Napoleon did it. Hitler did it. It’s not really that hard. They just want inspired speeches and cool looking tribal symbols and like, hardcore military shit (i.e., symbols of the capacity for violence to be used to protect the tribe).
These Germans have their hearts in the right place, of course. Shutting down the things they have the ability to shut down is the very most obvious thing peasants will do to show dissatisfaction. But this has never resulted in any meaningful outcome unless Robespierre or Lenin showed up and was like “and now, we start killing all my personal enemies!”
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