You say Ex-Communist, I say post-Stalinist

Let’s call the whole thing off. Well, the polls didn’t close amid violence or anything, maybe next time. Here we go, the German political situation, it’s easy as Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte:


Up until this month the conservatives had the 50% majority required to govern.


Election results left no accepted coalition with more than 45%. The FDP (liberals...doesn't mean what you think it does), junior member of the conservative coalition, was the big winner with a much better result than expected. Gerhard Schröder was the big, big winner, as his party also did better than some expected...of course his coalition (red-green) currently has only 42.4%, but that’s not the point obviously. The 3.9% "Sonstige" (Other) is comprised of the nazi party and several other groups of varying degrees of crackpottedness, let’s just leave that vague and not talk about it.

I think the SPD is going to pick up "Die Linke" (The Left), even though they claim they absolutely will not. The left party is made up of the former SED (i.e., 'the' party of the former GDR...the only one there was, if you know what I mean) and the newly formed "Voters Alterative for Social Justice"—which is comprised of chunks of the SPD that defected. Most importantly, they are not comprised of Angela Merkel...it seems Gerhard Schröder will find this option most attractive in the end. No one else thinks it seems like this, I’m just saying...


Regardless of what any one faction of German voters claims it wants, justice probably will prevail in German politics...and this multi-multi-multi party system will reap what it has sown.