TechAltarEvery pro-renewables politician should be working at 100% capacity to flip the "the greens are making your life more expensive" narrative into "the fossil fuel lobbyists are making your life more expensive" right now, but I fear our side is too nice to effectively exploit a situation like this
Daniël Franke 
@Techaltar Not just too nice, but I'm also annoyed by how the left/greens have become the party of "you can't do that", instead of trying to communicate a more idealistic and optimistic end goal that they want to achieve.
Isabel RuffellThis is a total cliche, and fundamentally untrue.
Of course, when Greens are organised enough to win a by-election in a FPTP contest, they are denounced by the Right for being "savage" and "a menace", and chided by liberals for not fulfilling their stereotype of being fluffy tree-huggers.
In any case,I think we have all seen what the Right's notion of freedom looks like.
@iaruffell Note that my comment was very much about the current state of German politics, which does not have by-elections, or FPTP systems. And that the greens and the left here definitely could communicate their desired end result better, while the right here lies hard about their "vision", and too many people are eating it up.
@ainmosni
Fair enough, but it is often wheeled out as a stock comment here too, so forgive my knee-jerk response.
One problem we have here, which may well differ, is a media landscape which until recently was disinterested and still hostile. This has historically made it difficult for the positive Green position to cut through. That has started to change here.
Veza85UE@ainmosni @iaruffell anglos whenever they see us trying to discuss EUropean politics in English:
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