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LOL! The Euro skeptics are absolutely nothing like the tea party. In fact, I have no doubt that virtually all of them would either laugh at or be embarrassed for the tea baggers. They're polar opposites of the tea baggers and are pretty much left of center just like all the other major German political groups and their only real difference is they want to kick the southern Europeans out of the Euro Zone so they don't have to prop up the laggards any more. This would be like NY and CA getting together and deciding they weren't going to subsidize the dead beats in the south with their tax dollars any more.
LOL! The Euro skeptics are absolutely nothing like the tea party. In fact, I have no doubt that virtually all of them would either laugh at or be embarrassed for the tea baggers. They're polar opposites of the tea baggers and are pretty much left of center just like all the other major German political groups and their only real difference is they want to kick the southern Europeans out of the Euro Zone so they don't have to prop up the laggards any more. This would be like NY and CA getting together and deciding they weren't going to subsidize the dead beats in the south with their tax dollars any more.
Or like the taxpayers in the US who don't want to subsidize ass-sitting O voters.
First election forecast after the polling stations closed: AfD 4.9%; pretty close, they would need 5%. Merkel's junior partner (FDP) probably won't make into the parliament again. Merkel's party got about 8% more than in 2009.
The Germans are smart and their econmy is just fine. If the Teapotty virus is spreading, the Germans will be the ones with the brains to eradicate it quickly. But it seems to be that these AFD people are nothing like the radical right wing that has invaded government here...different strain completely and they're likely not gun nuts either.
That party did not make it into parliament (there is a 5% hurdle any party has to take).
Merkel and her conservative party won, however the three left parties got the majority of votes if they were to form a coalition as Merkel's old coalition partner got kicked out of parliament, voters all but crushed that party which in its content is similar to Republicans in the US (very capitalist, against taxes, the market will fix it, etc.).
If all three left parties say no to a coalition request from Merkel, there might still be a left government despite Merkel's win. The only problem is that the left Linke party is the successor of the old stigmatized East German socialist party, so all the other parties still kind of shun it merely because of its past as in terms of content it is a rather progressive, open-minded party. Without that party there won't be a left government, though, as it is the third biggest party in Germany.
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