Can we talk about Germany's election?

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Joey said:
well he/she may not tell you the right tale - we do have two major parties??
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Technically not true. It is rather complicated.

We have the Labor Party and the other major party is actually a coalition of the Liberal Party, the Nationals and a variation of the two in the form of the LNP or the Liberal National Party. The Labor Party is centre left and the Coalition is mostly centre right. Because of our preferential system of voting, parliament also has some seats won by The Greens Party and some by independents and a few micro-parties. If voters can't warm to either of the major parties then the cross bench will benefit and negotiations will begin to see which party has the confidence of the House, after nominating a Speaker. Minority government looks a bit like herding cats. It is difficult.
 
Della said:
I'm guessing, politics would be anything we vote for and current events would be plane wrecks or celebrities.

For me, anything that raises my blood pressure is probably politics.
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I’m still not sure.

Is the idea of doing away with the USPS or the IRS politics or current events?

For me it’s current events for others it may be politics.

Very confusing.
 
No politics basically means no U.S. partisan politics, since that’s where all the hate and division come from. You can talk about German politics, but someone will take the chance to make comments about U.S. politicians, and I’ll end up having to lock or delete the thread.
 
Matrix said:
No politics basically means no U.S. partisan politics, since that’s where all the hate and division come from. You can talk about German politics, but someone will take the chance to make comments about U.S. politicians, and I’ll end up having to lock or delete the thread.
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Makes sense, but to much of any politics will run me off. This is why I left the others.
 
Matrix said:
No politics basically means no U.S. partisan politics, since that’s where all the hate and division come from. You can talk about German politics, but someone will take the chance to make comments about U.S. politicians, and I’ll end up having to lock or delete the thread.
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Yes, it is quite difficult, as U.S. is involved in so many seemingly unrelated world events, that we are bound to show up somehow/somewhere.
 
Della said:
It's politics because our current elected president has put those things in motion and if we think what he's doing is good or bad probably depends on how we voted.
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So, and I think your point has merit, there are even greater restrictions on our discussions now than even before the election?
 
Della said:
It's politics because our current elected president has put those things in motion and if we think what he's doing is good or bad probably depends on how we voted.
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For me, it doesn’t matter who came up with the idea.

It’s more about the need vs the cost, what are our options, how much of an impact it might have on our lives, etc…

In the end I suppose it doesn’t really matter what any of us think on almost any topic, it’s just something to fill time.
 
Rakaia said:
It's considerably less of a cess pool than one or two of the supposed super powers.
I'd be vaguely interested to learn how we stack up against the Euro's and the Brits.
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we're just all "true blues" which ever side of the blanket we come from! heh Warri - we or some that is have citizenship in two different countries legally but not sure if we can vote in one of them?
 
One of the most famous quotes of English literature is "I would prefer not to." It's from Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener". I am German and if someone asks me if I'd like to talk about Germany's election, I'd answer "I would prefer not to".

I'm choosing exactly this quote, because the first time I heard it, was as a high school student at the American cinema of my hometown. We had a US base at our town and our English teacher visited with us the cinema of the base. We watched "Bartleby the Scrivener" in English. I was completely surprised that at the beginning was a short clip showing many U.S. landscapes and people while playing The Star-Spangled Banner. And I was even more surprised that the American visitors of the cinema got up from their seats for the whole clip.

You and your politicians are proud of your country and you have every reason to be.

German politicians of the Green party stood behind a banner "Nie wieder Deutschland!" (Never again Germany!). Claudia Roth, one of these politicians was Vice President of the German Bundestag (Parliament) from 2013 to 2021.

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Does this explain the situation we are facing in Germany for many years?
 
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