Hart Aber Fair came on last night (Channel One, ARD, German public TV). It's one of the top live forum pieces on public TV.
So the round-table topic last night was....drum-roll please.....coalition-building. Since the election in late-September, this has been talked about, emphasized, analyzed, micro-analyzed, and brought tears to the eyes of most folks. I might even go and suggest that 50-percent of the working-class Germans don't care anymore.
For whatever reason, they decided on the round-table selection last night, to invite a stand-up comedian onto the group. Typically, this wouldn't happen.....you'd never mix politics and cynical behavior onto a serious forum situation.
The guy selected? Abdelkarim. He's a 2nd generation German (of Moroccan parents). He's actually studied law, and is fairly clever.
At some point in the forum chatter....he uttered the phrase: : "It's almost funny that the two biggest losers in the Bundestag election now want to reunite together. "
It's one of those blunt points that will trigger some folks to sit there and analyze his statement. He is correct.
I'm an outsider to this whole discussion and don't really care who heads the German government. But if you looked at the weak nature of both the CDU and SPD (the two top parties in Germany at present), then you measure what they were twenty and thirty years ago.....you'd shake your head. Neither party shows much enthusiasm, and roughly 45-percent of the nation voted against both of them combined.
Maybe Germans need some humor to liven up this situation, but I doubt that it'll fix anything.
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