The annexation of East Germany didn’t really change much in West German politics tbh - and the organizations that were strongly supportive of the GDR (DKP, etc.) were always a marginalized group of troublemakers - by 1990 the neoliberals were growing in popularity in the SPD anyway, and the left wing of the Green Party was realizing that the group had become a lost cause. So not much noticeable change there either.
you’re responding to the people talking about the GDR and what it lost in reunification as if they’re talking about the west. no one here gives a shit about the west.
The original comment was about how women’s support for the criteria the chart delineated as progressive/conservative went towards the latter after 1990. Before that, it’s almost certain the data only considered west Germany.
Thus, if it went down in 1990, it’s to assume that it’s at least partially because an increase of conservative population from the annexed regions of the east - right? Former Warsaw Pact countries do tend to have populations that are to the right of what the law was in the AES era.
What I’m saying is that the downward turn on the chart is unlikely to have been caused by that, since while the west had worse laws, its population wasn’t that much different from the east’s in supporting socially progressive causes. On the economic side, westerners haven’t changed and the easterners only turned left with the negative effects of the free market economy restoration.
I think they’re referring to West Germany…
The annexation of East Germany didn’t really change much in West German politics tbh - and the organizations that were strongly supportive of the GDR (DKP, etc.) were always a marginalized group of troublemakers - by 1990 the neoliberals were growing in popularity in the SPD anyway, and the left wing of the Green Party was realizing that the group had become a lost cause. So not much noticeable change there either.
you’re responding to the people talking about the GDR and what it lost in reunification as if they’re talking about the west. no one here gives a shit about the west.
Er, no?
The original comment was about how women’s support for the criteria the chart delineated as progressive/conservative went towards the latter after 1990. Before that, it’s almost certain the data only considered west Germany.
Thus, if it went down in 1990, it’s to assume that it’s at least partially because an increase of conservative population from the annexed regions of the east - right? Former Warsaw Pact countries do tend to have populations that are to the right of what the law was in the AES era.
What I’m saying is that the downward turn on the chart is unlikely to have been caused by that, since while the west had worse laws, its population wasn’t that much different from the east’s in supporting socially progressive causes. On the economic side, westerners haven’t changed and the easterners only turned left with the negative effects of the free market economy restoration.