Were politicians bored?Good questions. I do not know. My favorite explanation is: Merkel is a cynic. She does not believe in anything at all. She cares about one thing only: Power. To stay in power, she needs to win elections. Her strategy has always been to adopt and implement herself every policy that left-wingers come up with, to steal their voters, sure that rightwingers are always going to vote for her, anyway.Is that why they set policies that would create problems so that they could exert more control over the people?
Or maybe they just wanted more control? more power?
Create problems so that they can have more control in the name of security?
It used to work wonderfully, until now. Now people are really pissed off (except leftwing radicals), and more and more people are willing to vote for a new rightwing party like the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland). Her first attempt at fighting this development has been to demonize all opposition, from AfD to Pegida. But that does not seem to work all that well, anymore. So, I hope this is going to be her downfall.
I was born there and lived there for 35 years as a European Director for my American company. The average German has been wussified and would not take up arms to defend their own country if attacked. they have become meek and believe that talking and payment to the aggressors would buy them peace. They don’t mind paying extra taxes to further their domestic tranquility. (Example: there was a unification tax implemented after the wall fell and most Germans pay it gladly. Every time a situation comes up, their first action is a special tax. Sad.......