Not quite. The Chancellor is elected by a majority of the Bundestag (Legislature), and is always the leader of either the party that has an absolute majority or the major party that is able to negotiate their way to a majority coalition. The Social Democrats had to negotiate their way to the majority with, among other parties, the "Greens".
Germany is a nation of socialists to the core and have tremendous levels of ill will towards the US.
Agreed in part. Most of that ill will is concentrated in the old East Germans, with a smattering among the westernized "Greens".
At the rate Germany and the other "Euroweenies" are going, I wouldn't be surprised if a future conflict arises, between America and the Eurosocialists in Germany, France etc etc etc.
We have a winner.
You got my drift.
I stand corrected on how the Chancellor gets into office. While it's true, Germany is a Parlamentary form of governemnt and the people don't vote directly for the Chancellor, I think you understand my point. The people do vote for many members of the Bundestag and the Bundestag is populated by the German people.
Personally, I like America's Constitutional Republic form of government.