Timothy Birdnow

Germany's Conservative Party aka Christian Democrats (CDU) have likely won in a huge electoral victory where voting was up by 83%, the highest since reunification. The AFD (Alternative for Germany) - the equivalent of MAGA here or of Britain's UKIP, did extremely well also,finishing second.

The CDU is a center-right party so not TOO much will change as a result. (Too bad AFD didn't win.)

CDU head Friedrich Merz is promising to rein in immigration, although Merz does not seem likely to be able to accomplish this goal easily. But Merz and the CDU have vowed not to work with or recognize the AFD and so will likely form a coalition government with tthe current Chancellor and ruling party - Olaf Scholz and the Social Democrats (meaning things won't likely change in Germany even while they had record turnout and the CDU did amazingly well.)

I fear Germany is a lost cause. For too many years a large part of her population was raised under communism, and they enjoyed peace and prosperity on the American dime for so long they can conceive of no other way.

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