FDP, Greens and the media: What do these young voters allow themselves?

After the election is before the election.

In any case, this applies to the superficial consideration of politics and society, which television offers us above all and where journalists come to whom one only has to throw a little Instagram picture, they are already satisfied and think that what after peace, Joy, pancake looks like, is already the whole story.

This is what we are currently experiencing with a view to the exploratory talks between the FDP and the Greens, whose coalition - whether with the SPD or the Union - supposedly does not oppose anything.

There are worlds between the FDP and the Greens

Frank Plasberg just gave this impression in his talk show "hard but fair".

It took the world reporter Robin Alexander to put an end to the nonsense.

There are worlds between the FDP and the Greens - and so do their young voters.

The Greens strive for a state-decreed social change, the approach of the FDP is the individual with his freedom rights.

That is precisely why young voters chose the Liberals and not the Greens, the SPD or the Union.

Nothing would disappoint them anymore, the FDP put down its promise of freedom, which it declined in all political fields for the sake of government participation.

The Liberals have much more to lose in the coalition negotiations these days than they did four years ago. Those who voted for the Liberals are showing that not all of them belong to the “Generation Greta” and want to be offset against “Fridays for Future” or the blue-haired CDU destroyer on YouTube. For the Greens, who seem like the old CDU and apparently cannot imagine that younger people will not vote for them, this is a shock to which they react with repression.

And for the journalistic bubble, whose circles around them can be seen particularly well on Twitter, it is quite embarrassing not to have half of the young voters on the screen.

In the ARD election arena with Armin Laschet, three activists from the left spectrum naturally sat - this is what representativeness looks like in the first.

That's the way it is with conformity

The broadcasters, both public and private, who are currently striving for more “diversity” should think twice about what and whom they are reaching and who they are excluding - from their own ranks and the audience.

The survey of ARD volunteers, which caused a sensation a few months ago because it showed that 92 percent of those questioned identify with the political colors of red-red-green, should give the station managers pause for thought.

You talk about diversity, but create conformity - in the way you think, which is directly reflected in journalistic action.

And then there is great astonishment at the success of the FDP among the young.