Tony Schiavone wrote: ↑Mon Aug 27, 2018 3:28 am
Will her stubbornness ever come back to bite her on the ass, though?
From what you're all saying, it sounds like she'll keep getting re-elected over and over even though she pushes everyone's patience further and further.
Kind of like anti-Trump?
Our party system is weird. We have two big parties with all the others really only being there for filler to form a coalition that hits critical mass.
It used to be that we had the CDU as what's basically the Republicans and the SPD what's basically the Democrats.
Green and Die Linke will go with the SPD, FDP will go with CDU.
Merkel's party is the CDU so you can immediately see the problem with this system. For all intents and purposes, we don't have a right wing party anymore because the dedicated right wing party, the CDU, has been turned into a left wing party by Merkel's shenanigans. There's nobody coming up in her party to challenge her since she's also the parties leader and takes care of anyone that could possibly challenge her.
So that leaves us with or former right wing party being left wing, the dedicated left wing party being out of ideas on what to campaign for and thus getting terrible results, the Greens and Die Linke going mega turbo left wing because they need to be left of the SPD, the FDP not getting into coalitions with the CDU anymore because the latter is too left wing now and the AfD just sitting there with nobody wanting to form a coalition with them out of a principle basis.
In other words, we've got a left, a more left, a more left and a communist party and a right wing and a more right wing party both at about 10% support that nobody will go into a coalition with and won't go into a coalition with each other.
We desperately need a rule that sets the maximum legislation periods for the chancellor to two. We've got that for our president but that position doesn't matter at all.