Toleration?
Here’s how you form coalition governments if you’re the SPD in North Rhine-Westphalia (they’ve done this before): First of all, don’t win the election. Then, form a minority government with the Greens which is “tolerated” by the Left Party.
And here’s how the toleration part works: The Left Party quietly qets a whole lot more of what it wants than what it deserves by discretely making agreements with the coaltion partners behind the scenes while boldly threatening to stop its toleration and thus them (the coalition partners) dead in their tracks. Then, in one or two or however many years it takes, the voters get grossed out about the policies they didn’t really support or vote for in the first place, hold the coaltion partners accountable for the mess, vote them out, and the Left Party comes strolling out of the mess and into the opposition smelling like a rose. You know, as in “We weren’t in the government!”
Run with it, Hannelore.
Ministerpräsidentin mit Makel
Observing Hermann 
Totgesagte leben länger, aber in 10 years the Linke will be long forgotten.
I certainly hope you’re right, but I can’t help but feel that a frighteningly large percentage of Germans will still fall for this tripe, no matter how many times it fails and is repackaged.
I take this to be a simple problem of “flase conciousness” on the part of the population. You see, they don’t vote for unreconstructed autocracy promoters of Die Linke, but should have their policies imposed upon them for the sake of the good of man, civilization, social cohesion, and fuzzy kittens.
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