Oddbean

Where I live, even local politicians from all parties are unwelcome. Of course, you can't ban participation. But as far as the organization is concerned, no parties are involved. And explicitly so. It is an association of various clubs. And that's how I know it from other cities as well. Of course they are trying to jump on the bandwagon, but they are not taking the initiative.

Well, if the local town community is organizing and promoting demonstrations (e.g. on Instagram), this is at least indirectly organized by the „ruling“ parties and bodies of the current government. It is definitely not bottom-up, rather orchestrated. Apart from that, we haven’t even been touching the „starting point“, which was the „report“ from Correctiv…🤷‍♂️

I don't know where you live in Germany. But in my region, no one would go to these demonstrations if the “Ampel” parties had called for it 😂 The point is that I KNOW how it was organized in my community and in my parents'/sister's community. I received the relevant emails myself. I know who organized what and how. And I know that local politicians were asked to stay away. But I can imagine that it was and is different in other cities and especially in the big cities. I just don't like the general saying, because it doesn't match my community at least. And I'm not interested in judging whether these demos are good or bad