Greens projected to edge Christian Democrats in Baden-Württemberg state election

SWR ^ | 3/8/26 | Michael Ströbel, Simon Ukena, Mirela Delić, Samantha Ngako

[Redmen4ever]

Greens are projected to hold on to power, edging the Christian Democrats. Also, the Christian Democrats plus the Alternative for Germany (AfD) fall short of a majority; and, the Free Democrats fall short of the 5 percent threshold.

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TOPICS: Germany; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alternative; badenwrttemberg; christiandemocrats; greens

[Redmen4ever]

This is only a projection! Or maybe I should say, a leftard wet dream. At the time this article was published the polls were still open.

[butlerweave]

Green means Scam now ,LOL

[BobL]

Take your kids to Germany, NOW, as it will no longer be German by the time they grow up.

[gibsonguy]

The muzzies are moving en masse to the greens. They were Labour’s base. We seeing England in its death throws.

[gibsonguy]

oops my bad this was Germany. Please pretend my last post never happened -shields up, incoming.

[Redmen4ever]

Did you know that Germany has approved increasing spending on defense to 3.5 percent (comparable to what we spend) over the next several years? Germany will join Poland as military powerhouses of Europe.

[mass55th]

I see Germans are still too stupid to stay away from cult-organized political parties.

[Jeff Chandler]

Greens? Dumb Krauts believe they can run an industrial economy on ocean breezes and sunbeams!

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Lefties plus muzzies = red / green alliance.

[BobL]

“Did you know that Germany has approved increasing spending on defense to 3.5 percent (comparable to what we spend) over the next several years?”

Hard to believe that a government composed of people who cut their teeth HATING the military will follow through with their promise, rather than toss it overboard once Trump is gone and things ‘get back to normal’. Poland, though, they sound more serious.

[dangus]

1) Looks like a tie? 56-56 Christian Democrats vs Green.

2) Right-wing AfD surged to 35 seats.

3) The state was 95-59 leftists over conservatives, now it’s 91-66 conservatives over leftists.

4) CDU is still probably going to form a coalition with Greens, but it’s noteworthy they can’t form one with Social Democrats. Greens may be less willing to play ball and aren’t “center-left”, and as such, it becomes plausible to form a coalition with the AfD: even the social democrats don’t form coalitions with the Greens when they can avoid it.

[Redmen4ever]

Yes. I’ll try to find and post a news item with these results.

[Menes]

„Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.“

J. W. Stalin

Bears repeating.

Another matter are the massive votes of the paper-Germans, just as those of the paper-Britons have been in the last by-election near Manchester, England. They are the bigger problem than the brainwashed commiesc.m.

But of course, the Great Exchange, which the Right mentions from time to time, is nothing but a conspiracy theory…🤪
/s

[Redmen4ever]

Some people complain even when their side wins (or is it that “their side” is so small that they never win).

[Menes]

Yes, and imho this is a clear sign of how „estranged from the real world“ (or may we say „how demented“?) their worldview is.

But, as a wise man (whose name escapes me at the moment) once said, leftism is not a political worldview, it is a diagnosis.
Food for thought…

[Redmen4ever]

A lesson in democracy: Democracy isn’t based on the belief that the majority is right. It is based on the fact that majorities change. So, if policies don’t work, those policies will eventually be changed.

To be sure, it would help if elections were less complicated; for example, if state government focused on domestic policy, and federal government focused on foreign policy.

Also, this presumes that there is freedom of speech, of the press, freedom of assembly and association, etc., so that the people have access to information not filtered by their rulers.

Now, what is the alternative to democracy? Some form of dictatorship? A hereditary monarch? How well have these worked out?

Things changed with the Enlightenment and what is called the Industrial Revolution. With the Reformation, the invention of the printing press, the scientific discoveries that challenged the doctrine of Papal infallibility, and advances in communication and transportation.

With these changes, we, the human race, began sustained economic progress, lifting the standard of living and quality of life of the masses of ordinary people. This progress started in the Dutch Republic and first spread to Great Britain and the United States. It has subsequently spread, unevenly, to a lot of the rest of the world.

While this progress has been real and sustained, now, for more than 200 years, there are growing numbers of people of the left and the right who choose to live in a fantasy world which denies the progress we have made, and which claims that utopia is possible.