Liberal Trend of Germany

　　I'm focusing on Germany's recent liberal trend. I don't mind the future of Germany which is pro-China, but my second daughter had lived there for a year and I've visited it a few times. Moreover, I can understand German a little. That's why I'm interested in Germany.
　　My recent worries about Germany are its liberal trend. When a nuclear plant was hit in Japan in 2011, German mainstream media reported huge incorrect news like crazy. Nuclear plants are harmful, we should throw them away. .... The news companies didn't vet the trustworthiness of their
correspondents. One example, people who are sensitive to pollen wear face masks as early as the end of February to early May to avoid hay fever. You can see people everywhere in Japan with a face mask in this season of the year. The reporters described this scene saying that lots of people across Japan were in panic and wore face masks to avoid radioactive contamination. Actually, however, there was no panic in Japan. The panic in Japan was just their imaginary products.
　　Eventually the Merkel administration decided to stop all their nuclear power plants until 2022. They would rely on Russia to get their energy resources. I was surprised to hear that and thought they must have been out of their minds. However, they fulfilled their purpose and the number of running nuclear plants is only three now, and they are also set to be decommissioned until December. (I checked the present condition. The decommission plan was postponed to next spring due to the present energy crisis, but their intention for decommission seems to be firm.)

Originally, even if they stop their nuclear plants, they can get electricity from France or Switzerland. Taking into consideration that that electricity is produced by the use of nuclear power, their policy of abandoning nuclear power generation is simply a mean sophism.

(Vocabulary)
be out of their minds 気が狂って
sophism [C] こじつけ, 詭弁(きべん) = sophistry ; [U] 詭弁(きべん)を弄(ろう)すること= sophistry