[ajsnigrutin]

> I really can’t explain where Politikverdrossenheit (political apathy) comes from.

I understand... it's simple... someone does something bad, nothing happens to them... bad thing again... nothing happens... people protest... nothing happens... bad thing again.. nothing happens...

If this was some other timeline, and people brought guillotines out every couple of years and "dealt with" the "bad" politicians in "the french way", politicians themselves would be calling for jail sentances, because they'd atleast be alive in there.

Otherwise, i live in a different country, and the political situation is the same.

[edgyquant]

The reason we don’t guillotine people is because Robespierre guillotined everyone and now we know that murdering people politically is an addictive substance.

Also let’s be clear, the reign of terror was an absolute shit show in every since of the word as was killing the king. 30 years of war just to have another monarchy to overthrow isn’t exactly a great move.

[petre]

This only happens in France but without guillotines: strikes + yellow gillet protests. The Germans are too well behaved to do anything or the political process is much too civilised to employ any form of civil disobedience.

[Tarsul]

I think it also has something to do with that our (German) media is not as radicalised. And Germans don't like facebook, so there's probably less options/danger also to radicalise through social media. And usually the poor are not as poor as in other countries. But we will see what happens this winter.