Die Linke is generally speaking just a bit more to the left than the other two. Very oversimplified they're the communist party (while still managing not to be forbidden for extremism).
Personally I'm convinced that people will *always* do stupid things and the best kind of government would actually be a dictatorship with some kind of all knowing benign saint as ruler. But since that's somehow unrealistic, I'll settle for voting for what I hate least and complaining for the next four years afterward.
What I've always thought most strange about American politics is the believing in the parties/candidates. Or at least beliving in them to a degree that you're procrlaiming louldly and proudly to have voted for them. This kind of enthusiasm is along the same lines as being a member of a political party for me. ("What do you mean? You agree with so many of their ideas that you actually joined them? What kind of radical are you?") So you ex seems like a strange person to me anyway *g* But I doubt these numbers will convince him. People have always changed sides in elections (There's even a term for them: Wechselwähler) and if he refused to acknowledge it before he'd probably just turn a blind eye now.
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Personally I'm convinced that people will *always* do stupid things and the best kind of government would actually be a dictatorship with some kind of all knowing benign saint as ruler.
But since that's somehow unrealistic, I'll settle for voting for what I hate least and complaining for the next four years afterward.
What I've always thought most strange about American politics is the believing in the parties/candidates. Or at least beliving in them to a degree that you're procrlaiming louldly and proudly to have voted for them. This kind of enthusiasm is along the same lines as being a member of a political party for me. ("What do you mean? You agree with so many of their ideas that you actually joined them? What kind of radical are you?")
So you ex seems like a strange person to me anyway *g* But I doubt these numbers will convince him. People have always changed sides in elections (There's even a term for them: Wechselwähler) and if he refused to acknowledge it before he'd probably just turn a blind eye now.