>>12547335Germany sees everything that doesn't exist right now as a pipe dream.
"If you're having visions, you should go see a doctor." is a famous political quote.
The highest victory in German politics was won with the slogan: "No experiments."
Merkel was elected 4 times in a row. And before the short intermission of 2 times Schröder, Kohl of the same party as Merkel also served 4 terms. Both Kohl and Schröder didn't lose an election, but resigned over scandals, too.
Yes, Germany wants to save the climate, but please not by actually changing anything. Wind kills birds and the sun doesn't shine at night after all. Germany isn't rushing fusion. People are 100% on board on the "Fusion is always X years away meme." And the money is better spent on the other things we don't want anyway.
Rockets and space are a complete meme to Germans as well. The last ~senator(equivalent) who proposed an initiative to boost aerospace/satellite companies in Bavaria was ridiculed endlessly for it. Granted, he was being really clumsy about it, but still.
Germany is 100% ruled by nimbys and midwits falling for all your typical pseudo-smart counterarguments and endlessly repeating them. This country is almost completely paralyzed at this point.
It just wants to stay exactly the same forever.
