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Wild to think that only 32%- mildly less than a third- of German voters, according to polls, aren't economically suicidal NAFO trolls then. Maybe it'll take the Euro going the way of the Reichsmark for the country to learn...
It takes some time to deprogram people from many decades of conditioning and propaganda.
It's also a chicken and egg problem: an alternative has to have some level of viability to attract large numbers of people, but it isn't viable unless it attracts a lot of people in the first place.
That's true to an extent, but we also see how new ideas can rapidly gain momentum. Unfortunately, we mostly see this happen with right wing ideas like MAGA in US, RN in France, and AfD in Germany, and so on. Clearly it's possible to get a lot of people mobilized if your messaging is appealing. We need to figure out is how to package communist ideas in a way that are relatable to people who are falling out of the mainstream.