The FDP is first and foremost in favor of open markets and capitalism, and while they keep trying to tell people about all their socially progressive positions, they conveniently forget about most of them when they are elected. Neoliberalism fits their policy the best imo. (They are also corrupt to no end, who would have thought)
Slight correction, he is a liberal, not a libertarian.
Just for all non germans, not the american definition of liberal. He is FDP, so a right winger, anti poor people liberal.
The rich man’s left wing
The FDP is first and foremost in favor of open markets and capitalism, and while they keep trying to tell people about all their socially progressive positions, they conveniently forget about most of them when they are elected. Neoliberalism fits their policy the best imo. (They are also corrupt to no end, who would have thought)
Nothing left wing about the current German liberal party.
It’s basically the polar opposite of traditional leftists.