Germans tend to take things to extremes. But unfortunately, they've been less willing to embrace democracy in the extreme. Tacitus spoke of the Germans dedication to material equality when they were at a tribal state, and history left them seeing the good in authoritarianism. Bismark brought them welfare as a way to buy off the general public from the Left. Like the French, it seems to me, the Germans have been reluctant to accept that the Anglos may have stumbled onto something better than what the Germans had. There is a certain snobbishness that causes them to want something abstruse when the practical would work better. When it comes to economics, again like the French, they rant about dog-eat-dog capitalism in the UK and USA and imply that their own social model is far superior while believing in the future so thoroughly that in four or five generations there will be more Germans in the US than in Germany. Ours will speak English. Theirs will speak Turkish or Arabic unless there is a rebirth of Germans willing to have children, an unlikely event I'd say unless their frauleins hook up with Americans.
>>in four or five generations there will be more Germans in the US than in Germany. Ours will speak English. Theirs will speak Turkish or Arabic<<
that's an optimistic future, the pesimistic is that theirs will speak Turkish or Arabic, yours will speak spanish with this funny mexican accent.