The "Last Generation" wants to found a party - good luck!

Are the “Last Generation” serious about starting a political party? One can only hope so. Every hour their members spend courting votes, navigating the formalities of party law, and arbitrating the programming and personnel disputes that inevitably arise is an hour they are not blocking traffic or vandalizing works of art.

Admittedly, the radical climate protectors have so far also acted efficiently, purposefully and well organized off the streets. But the successful blackmailing of individual local politicians or the scattering of donations through a network of associations that is as opaque as possible is related to the founding of a political party with lastingly relevant voting shares in much the same way as organizing a successful children's birthday party at the world economic summit.

The path to the latter requires a degree of strategy, discipline, patience and, last but not least, a willingness to compromise, which one can doubt whether the movement, which has tended to be more "experience-oriented" up to now, really exists.

Now one might object that the AfD does not exactly embody these qualities in an exemplary manner, but in current surveys it is still the third strongest force in the federal government. Or that a climate protest movement with the Greens had already successfully marched through the authorities. Both are true, but in the case of the last generation it shows the hopelessness of the undertaking.

The AfD was only able to reach its current strength by occupying fields that the CDU in particular had previously vacated. In the case of the "Last Generation", however, these fields are already occupied by the Greens. From the point of view of climate stickers, their policies may not go far enough.

But it is precisely this containment of radical currents that made the Greens eligible for large sections of the population - if they let the reins slip too much, it still costs them votes today. The scope for another climate party would lie between a radicalism that nobody wants and a moderation that nobody needs. With this in mind: full speed ahead!