In America, the trend started before Covid. It's not fully explained, but it does seem to be about welfare benefits.
what Otto von Bismarck introduced in his time in the German Reich to stabilize and reassure the working class, the first accident insurance carried by the state, was quickly recognized by the socialists as a vector of attack against bourgeois society. it is the great advance organization of the socialists to make more and more of the population dependent on themselves, but in this way to legalize a transfer of power. All the folklore, all the narratives that today present the welfare state as something sacrosanct, I already know that it is the root of evil, with regard to the decline of the family as the great security structure, with regard to the free entrepreneurs, the self-employed, etc., who were the flywheel of the economy.
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If not for Hitler, I feel like Bismark would be the subject of much more scrutiny.
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yes, but you must not forget that Bismarck was the one who correctly assessed the balance of power in the Europe of his time and was also very good at balancing the German monarchy, which had gone partly mad. he was a man of balance
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