I I just can't understand how anyone could possibly vote for the CDU—given its racism and anti-social policies—but I also can't understand those who consider it competent. This party somehow has a reputation for being competent in economic matters, yet its shameless schemes are largely to blame for Germany's current dire economic situation.
Until 2003, the country was a global leader in photovoltaics, but the CDU cut funding to benefit its fossil fuel cronies, causing this now multi-billion-dollar industry to go to the dogs.
The internet infrastructure is abysmal because the Kohl administration chose to lay copper instead of fiber-optic cables to accommodate their cronies in the cable TV industry at the time. The problem persists to this day and has cost the country billions.
The CDU decided to phase out nuclear power without an alternative, presumably yet another favor for the fossil fuel cronies. Electricity in Germany is now more expensive than in almost any other industrialized country.
The CDU is on the verge of blocking progress in electric mobility as a favor to the auto lobby. Clinging to a technology that is simply outdated will cost the country billions in the medium term, just so that car manufacturers—who are themselves to blame for having completely ignored the signs of the times—can continue to generate high sales until, at some point, they can no longer sell anything because nobody wants their products anymore
The CDU is one of the key forces responsible for the one-sided orientation toward the US, which makes Germany vulnerable to blackmail and causes enormous harm to innovation within the country.
These are just a few examples—this party lacks economic competence on a unfathomable level: They are just lining their own pockets and so they have been making decisions for decades that have caused extreme economic harm to the country and continue to do so.