I moved to Germany and regret it

Re:I moved to Germany and regret it by red_trumpet on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @08:43AM (#36325039)

While I generally agree that small cities with elderly population are more problematic, and Otterberg might be an instance of that, I found it interesting, that they definitely vote left-leaning[1]. The red "SPD" are the social democrats, "CDU" are more conservative christian democrats.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otterberg#Politik

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Re:I moved to Germany and regret it by dontupvoteme on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @09:11AM (#36325365)

German politics really can't be broken down into simple left versus right honestly.

There's an entire demographic who votes green simply because they want nicer forests to drive their BMW through, and if you want to go for the oversimplification route, die Linke are boomers who want the USSR back and AFD are zoomers who want the third reich back.

They don't have first past the post so they're not tied into an us vs them dichotomy

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Re:I moved to Germany and regret it by pph on Saturday June 17, 2023 @06:02PM (#36375131)

While local politics are difficult to judge from afar, I generally wouldn't consider the SPD left for a long time now. I'd recommend not putting too much weight on the (local) voting results.

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