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They may call themselves “conservatives” but “conservative” comes from “to conserve”. I fail to see how that strategy is in any way conservative of anything.

Maybe we should stop repeating their lie and not call them “conservatives” anymore. They are destructive cleptocrats. Enriching themselves by destroying and selling off public property.

Unfortunately an old SPD tradition dating back more than a century…

I know a few (former) SPD members who are quite pissed off at the party and what Schröder and Scholz turned it into. Their story is all the same. They are old-school social democrats who fail to see any social democracy in the party the SPD has become.

tl;dr: Don’t trust people on the internet ;)

I never have.

Source: Am a person on the internet.

If they actually win enough to gain power, there won’t be any future election periods anymore.

I’d prefer not to contemplate that increasingly realistic possibility, but here we are.

I’m genuinely surprised. Got too used to those bastards lying to me.

Still an epitome of democracy with virtually all votes being cast strictly along the party lines. Looks like those overpaid muppets are sitting there just to represent their party leaders, not the people.

They will come back. As they do every time. Just wait one or two election periods, then they’ll be back under new leadership, with yet another flashy advertising campaign targeting dumb first time voters, who will, once more, fall for that trick.

The FDP desn’t need many members nor many voters to maintain its financing, they get plenty of donations bribes in return for their services to the ultra rich. They can and will manage a few years with bad election results.

That, too.

They aren’t only blatantly lying, they are stupid enough to believe their own lies.

On the other hand, I’m not that sad about the SPD’s demise. Since Schröder turned them into a CDU in red, they are redundant. The problem is that nothing filled the giant void that the SPD’s reinvention as just another neoliberal party has left.

Yes, this is still massively dishonest, as the mechanism isn’t meant for willy-nilly forcing new elections just because the guy in front wants it so.

His own party votes “no confidence” for the very guy they’re putting up as their lead candidate for the next election. Everything you ever need to know about honesty in politics.

The DB doesn’t calculate timetables anymore, they estimate them. So this is only a rough guess of when the train might or might not depart.

Elections have devolved into a popularity contest about who gets to scam you for the next couple years.

Just from my personal experience, all of German politics is corrupt from bottom to top and back.

Municipal politics in my small rural community consists of a bunch of people performing the nifty magic trick of transforming a barren field they happen to own into lucrative building plots through the magic of zoning legislation. Some of them even openly admit to only running for council in order to do that.

The connections with businesses run so deep that some of the people running for office are the same business owners profiting from it. It’s only nepotism if there is a middle man, I guess.

On topics that aren’t profiting them personally, those people will resort to a level of petty bickering along party lines that would make Kindergarten age children sink into the ground in embarrassment. Any idealists who try actually serving the population rather than their own (or their party leadership’s) self interest will be put in their place and/or or bullied out by the established (party) hierarchies.

New political groups pretty much only arise from bizarre, yet well funded NIMBY organisations, of course funded by local business owners to further their (business) interests.

It almost looks like having essential infrastructure like the power grid run by profit driven private enterprises is a bad idea for everyone except power company CEOs and shareholders.

When the Kremlin wants people to vote, this never means anything good.