Wait, we are talking of the same nation that with Merkel accepted millions of immigrants ?
A lot has happened since. And because Merkel government didn’t actually handle this mass refugee influx well, the people coming in were kinda stranded. I remember seeing a lot of homeless refugees with kids (!) in parks and other places where we usually didn’t expect homeless people at all. Germans don’t like seeing that, so they blame the refugees for ruining the peace. Sure everyone was happy to accepts millions of refugees as long as it happened somewhere else! And even if this situation has improved a lot, more and more Germans find new ways to blame them for their own miserable lives. Populist media and politics play a huge role in this. Covid and an unstable government after Merkel did the rest. It will take a while to come to our senses again, if at all.
A lot has happened since. And because Merkel government didn’t actually handle this mass refugee influx well, the people coming in were kinda stranded. I remember seeing a lot of homeless refugees with kids (!) in parks and other places where we usually didn’t expect homeless people at all. Germans don’t like seeing that, so they blame the refugees for ruining the peace. Sure everyone was happy to accepts millions of refugees as long as it happened somewhere else! And even if this situation has improved a lot, more and more Germans find new ways to blame them for their own miserable lives. Populist media and politics play a huge role in this. Covid and an unstable government after Merkel did the rest. It will take a while to come to our senses again, if at all.