Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Europe's New Most Powerful Leader? What Armin Laschet Means for Germany u0026 Europe - TLDR News" video.

I think Merkel running for another term would be ideal, she's reliable, dependable and trusted by a lot of the population and with the hard times ahead for the next few years thanks to the pandemic, I think Germany and the EU overall could do with someone like her, at least for another term but then again, I can understand why she would want to step down, 15 years as leader is a long time in politics, I guess it's just the timing of her leaving that isn't good with everything that is going on but then on the other hand, maybe a new start might be a good thing.
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@transsylvanian9100 Unfortunately, democracy is all about the will of the people, no matter what their views are, the real problem isn't those parties but that so many people actually want to vote for them, that's where the real problem is in society and this plays out in almost every country. Basically, far left and far right parties play on the weakness of what's going on in a country, they take advantage of that for their own ends which rarely are in the interest of the people, if we only want moderate parties to be elected then the public needs to have a more moderate mindset, that will mean reforming of the media to be more truthful and of governments to stop spinning everything.
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@transsylvanian9100 Actually moderates doesn't have anything to do with status quo, it's actually more to do with listen to all sides of an arguments and going on from there, hence why they are some of the most successful governments because they try to listen to more people. Now don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind seeing more radical politics to shake things up but there's is always a risk to that as we see with Brexit and Trump and it can lead to far worse if we are not careful. I think we should also understand that many of the so called moderate parties are anything but that, just look at the Conservative Party in the UK, they didn't listen to half of the population on Brexit, look at Trump in the US, he didn't listen to anyone lol, these are more radical groups and as we see, the results are not that great. If we really want change, then it's up to the people to vote for that change, so far they do a really poor job on that because they are easily manipulated, misled and bought off, basically, these kinds of governments use scapegoats to further their own agenda, we saw that in the UK, we saw that in the US, it's always others faults and not their own on why things are like they are, the truth is, the real fault is with the voting public, the governments after all are a reflection of the voting public and that is where the real problem is. If these governments were really moderates, they would listen to all sides but in some countries, namely the UK and US, they rarely listen to the other side and that is why we are seeing a big divide, in other words, don't blame moderate governments when they are not even being elected by the people, some governments might say they are moderate but they are anything but that.
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