Posted on 02/19/2018 4:12:44 PM PST by Olog-hai
Running from SpD to the Greens seems like a “frying pan into the fire” kind of deal, from what I’ve heard.
Being the junior partner in a coalition government for the better part of a generation is a pretty sure way to leave your party’s supporter’s disaffected with you.
Meanwhile because the CDU/CSU is saddled with the SPD as that junior partner, it means that they are outflanked to their right by the AfD who are not Nazis but might have some supporters who wouldn’t mind if they were.
Just goes to show that as bad as a two party system is, the multiparty parliaments may be worse.
Isn’t right vs. left in the EU the opposite of the same in the US?
Not really; more like left and further left. The Basic Law shows that there is nobody at the elite political level in Germany who thinks anything like the USA’s Founding Fathers.
“Far-right” in Europe is anyone not willing to surrender to the muslim invasion.
Most of the parties in Europe are left-wing by our standards.
AfD will not come to power through voting.
That’s unfortunate. Has there ever been a time in the last 150 years when Europe-proper was liberty-minded?
Not precisely accurate. That number would actually be the combined popularity of two parties which have a non-compete agreement - Merkel's CDU and Horst Seehofer's Christian Social Union. Merkel's numbers would be closer to 25 or 26%.
Well, only by the thinkers that inspired the Founding Fathers, and of course aspects of British Common Law that made it into the US Constitution. At the political level, business as usual.
Well, there’s a spark of it in Switzerland, but not as far as the USA went in the sense of jurisprudence.
Are you perhaps thinking of the different use of the word ‘liberal’ in Europe vs US?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism_in_Europe
“Far Right” means what, in this context?
In Europe “far right” pretty much means “national borders are important”.
Liberty vs. freedom.
Right and left is the same globally.
What’s different is what is meant by “liberals”.
Liberals in the US have now become socialists. Far lefters. Totalitarian wannabes. They still call themselves liberals (more often call themselves “progressives” now) but they’re not. They’re hard core leftists.
In Europe, a liberal is still liberal. Believes in freedom of speech, markets, religion, etc. They are center-right.
Our Founders were very careful in their choice of words.
Anything that’s not internationalist left. It’s the same tactic used by the original German “Antifa”.
Calling the AFD is far right is udder bovine excrement. They are to the left of the GOP in the USA. Of course it is easy to be to the right of most parties in Europe as most of them are Bolshevik-lite.
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