I’ve only lived in Germany for a year and a half so if some more experienced Germans could tell me what I’m missing and explain why things aren’t so bad that would be nice, but it seems like this country is shifting in a negative direction politically from this polling data and it scares me.
If AfD ends up being the second biggest party in the Bundestag next federal election I’ll be quite upset but that’s how it goes I guess.
Slightly off-topic, but watch the interview of President Obama by Hasan Minhaj :)
Obama describes the power of the presidency like the Captain of a large ocean liner or aircraft carrier, who can really f things up by running into an iceberg, but at most set a good course for the future by correcting it by a few degrees. (very paraphrased)
Hasan had a different analogy that it’s like parenting: You can f up a kid’s future majorly as a parent, but no amount of parenting will make your kid LeBron James.
So things can always get significantly worse but never meaningfully improve? What a great system we have here! /s ~Nai
Yeah, it’s a medium great system ;)
Just to say it for the record here is my interpretation: The country can still do great things, it’s just that the captain can’t just make it happen on their own.