The right wing or the death of progress

Many things the left has fought hard for have eventually come to pass. The end of segregation is a good example. Today I am not so sure that the human race in the west of the world is moving in a forward direction. Let us begin with Europe: Two days ago the SPD (Germany´s Social Democrats) lost the election in what was their worst placement in recent memory. Who were the winners in the whole thing? The FDP and the CDU. One party claims to be the Christian Democratic Union (and party that uses Christs name is something to be wary of) and the Free democrats (who are essentially Libertarians). In many ways this union of these two parties for a four year mandate are oddly similar to the Republican party in the US, which if the current pattern continues is poised to make a comeback. The reason for all this? I don´t really know where to start.

The FDP have sold themselves as being some kind of saviors for the economic crises and have along with their allies the CDU promised to make tax cuts. How they are going to do this is not clear at all. This is a similar Republican strategy as well: tax cuts and talks about morality. The idea behind these types of thinking is that the Market economy will solve any and every problem faced by society. In truth it has done exactly the opposite. Lack of regulation was a big cause of the current economic crises and this is generally accepted by most economists (I defer to Krugman here over at the NY Times).

Essentially the policies that this union are offering to Germany is this: hey government sucks (but not us of course, because we somehow don´t) and all you need is greed. Hey they should re-write that Beatles song: All you need is greed....Greed....Greed is all you need!