Pinging our resident FReeper.
This boils down to five things:
1. The national election is not until Sep of 2017, and no one from the six total parties sitting in the Bundestag (even the opposition) cares to have an earlier election. AfD doesn’t sit in the Bundestag (yet) but I doubt they would care for an earlier election.
2. Passive? Roughly sixty to seventy percent of the nation are grumbling daily. They grumble about the state-run or public-tv news media. They grumble about veiled women in urbanized areas. They grumble about social welfare money that is not being properly controlled. The list goes on and on.
3. If not Merkel, then who? Cool, collected, and logical...Merkel has carved out a fair amount of respect. Up until this business started up at the end of 2013...she had very popular trends. So you look at the next ten possible leaders from the seven total parties hyped nationally. There is no Trump. There is no one that has the ultimate answers. There is no magic unicorn.
4. As much as people think that Germany is a federally-driven device....from Berlin downward, I would offer the opinion that the sixteen states have a fair amount of “play” in the system. Each has cops on their payroll...prosecutors...judges...etc. Any of the sixteen could enact more aggressive measures, yet they don’t seem to want to go onto the next step. They are waiting on something of a mythical nature to occur out of hours and hours of debate in Berlin....yet it ends being a debate over limited to no action. The public is used to that now.
5. This counter-weight in support of pro-immigration...even if sixty-percent of the nation is frustrated and wants a change....is the state-TV/public-TV cast of characters. The journalists and intellectuals are all pro-immigration and work hard to keep minimum damage to their favorite topic. If you look up at Sweden, it’s been discovered by a study released last week that the top seven methods of news for the nation are not read or viewed by half the general population now...because of a lack of trust. Germans are going the same direction...trust with the news media is still on the plus side but it has to be losing viewers/readers on a weekly basis, and will end up like Sweden.