Left/right is not the best distinction. I live in Germany and I'd characterize the trend as a move towards more authoritarian ideals. Right now it is mostly fue

Left/right is not the best distinction. I live in Germany and I'd characterize the trend as a move towards more authoritarian ideals. Right now it is mostly fueled by a right wing agenda (omg you should fear these evil immigrants) but the left has the same ideal (fight evil capitalism/globalisation via more state regulations). I think it is a very worrying trend because the hunger to outsource more life to the state for more piece of mind is actually pretty widespread I'd say. I feel like it is very easy to pass legislation that infringes on personal freedom in a tradeoff for "let the state take care of it" Just promising less change and more of the same or "back to the good old days" is a simple but unfortunately well working political platform. This is pretty alarming since I don't really see any counterarguments that ask for less state. We have one party that should nominally do it (FDP) but their agenda is not very liberal if you dig deeper (not very libertarian in the US sense I suppose). Edit: The other problem is disillusion about the elites not caring about the people which often leads to protest voting for more radical parties. A party that supports some sort of direct democracy and more personal freedom (and also responsibility) is needed and probably has the potential to be somewhat disruptive. I might just be naive but I feel like there's no good non radical offer for people who feel like what they say doesn't matter at all for the established parties.