Germany’s no-emotion voting guide surges despite campaign of personalities
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Re: Germany’s no-emotion voting guide surges despite campaign of personalities
#2The biggest problem with Wahl-O-Mat in my view is that it only looks at what parties claim they will do, not their historical voting record. There had been some discussion around this topic this election cycle, so perhaps they will try to address it in future iterations.
Re: Germany’s no-emotion voting guide surges despite campaign of personalities
#3> Others seem designed to detect far-right tendencies. “Germany should leave the European Union,” reads one.
So if you're not neoliberal, you're far-right. Got it.
Re: Germany’s no-emotion voting guide surges despite campaign of personalities
#4The biggest problem with Wahl-O-Mat in my view is that it only looks at what parties claim they will do, not their historical voting record. There had been some discussion around this topic this election cycle, so perhaps they will try to address it in future iterations.
The site deinwal.de tries to address this by letting you vote on past bills and then showing you who votes most similar to you.
However, for opposition parties this doesn't work reliably since they'll sometimes vote against something if it doesn't go far enough or if they disagree with the implementation details, even if they agree with the general idea. Unless you read up on the vote, these nuances will be missed.
It also reinforces the status quo since parties that aren't in parliament yet would not be covered.
Re: Germany’s no-emotion voting guide surges despite campaign of personalities
#5> Others seem designed to detect far-right tendencies. “Germany should leave the European Union,” reads one. So if you're not neoliberal, you're far-right. Got it.
It's pretty much only far-right parties that want to leave the EU nowadays.
Re: Germany’s no-emotion voting guide surges despite campaign of personalities
#6There are still so many emotion loaded messages, while "Die Partei" keeps making fun of them:
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-germany-dortmund-may15th20...
Re: Germany’s no-emotion voting guide surges despite campaign of personalities
#7> Others seem designed to detect far-right tendencies. “Germany should leave the European Union,” reads one. So if you're not neoliberal, you're far-right. Got it.
It's pretty much only far-right parties that want to leave the EU nowadays.
That doesn’t mean this particular political claim is far-right ideology.
If only the right-wing parties support nuclear power, does that turn nuclear power into something rightwing?
Re: Germany’s no-emotion voting guide surges despite campaign of personalities
#8> Others seem designed to detect far-right tendencies. “Germany should leave the European Union,” reads one. So if you're not neoliberal, you're far-right. Got it.
It's pretty much only far-right parties that want to leave the EU nowadays.
The terms are also very culture-dependent. What's moderate in the US would probably be considered far-right in Germany.
Re: Germany’s no-emotion voting guide surges despite campaign of personalities
#9I hope not too many people base their voting decision on the amount of similarity they have in their answers with parties. The way questions are phrased do not always give parties a way to answer (Yes/No/Neutral) in the same way. As an example, 2 parties could both say No to a higher Co2-tax, but one of them does so because they claim climate change is a hoax, while the other one has a problem with it not being progressive enough, thus hitting poorer people harder than rich people.
Wahlomat is really great for 2 things though: First there are a lot of small parties, and while some of them probably deserve a seat at the table, it would be too much work to read all their programs. Wahlomat gives me the ability to presort some of the smaller parties, read their answers, and then maybe dig into their programs if I found that interesting.
The other thing is that Wahlomat is a great discussion starter. A few friends and I first did it all by ourselves, then went through our answers together. My opinion was shifted on a couple of these questions, shifting my overall position a bit, too.
Re: Germany’s no-emotion voting guide surges despite campaign of personalities
#10> Others seem designed to detect far-right tendencies. “Germany should leave the European Union,” reads one. So if you're not neoliberal, you're far-right. Got it.
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