I'm simply an outsider viewing this whole political thing going on in Germany at present. It's amazing how the news media system.....TV and print media....are consumed with 'blame-articles' on how the 'Jamaica-Coalition' episode failed.
Blame upon Merkel, the CDU Party, the CSU Party, the Greens, Christian Lindner of the FDP, various personalities within the negotiation group, and even outsiders. They are on some tangent to let people know how people failed.
The problem here, is that in twelve-odd weeks, you will have another election and the idea here is that you need to blame someone, and have some corrective action in your voting results (maybe bringing more votes to the SPD or the CDU). I just don't see that occurring in a big way.
At best, I think the public has viewed the CDU actions and words, and will decide that some alternate party would be more appropriate. Some of the Greens might feel this way as well.
Creating a bigger mess? If you end up with a total of SPD and CDU votes of 45 to 50 percent.....yes, it will make this into a much bigger mess. In the old days, going back four years to sixty years.....the two parties would take a minimum of 60-percent.....sometimes even 80-percent.
The other issue is that the AfD might actually be able to get 15-percent of the vote (bettering their 12-percent of the last election).
The sad thing here is that the whole Christmas and new year period will be consumed in politics. Some folks will be working 60-hour weeks to help in the campaign process.
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