I'm far from an expert in German politics, but there are obvious historical reasons why Germans like the idea of having a right to privacy.

> there are obvious historical reasons why Germans like the idea of having a right to privacy

There are obvious historical reasons why they shouldn't try far-right, race-based politics, yet here we are [1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/rise-germanys-most-succ...

I don't even understand why people never look and understand the history that happened outside of their country. Just the sheer risk of having a society like in the DDR is reason enough to not do stuff like that.

We never learn (long-term) from the past.

A sizeable part of Germany is nostalgic after the good ole times, be it of 50 years ago or of 90 years ago. You can see them at the voting booths.

Funny you'd say something like this, after somebody made a comment about "sizeable parts" and never an absolute statement.

See also: Ostalgie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostalgie)

two of the three coalition parties are against it - the greens and the FDP (the social democrats are in favour), thus the government doesnt support.

they are neither far left/right

> they are neither far left/right

Are Linke and AfD are for chat control? They're by whom the coalition is being threatened.

The current government coalition is threatened by the CDU (centre-right), not by Linke (that has almost no voters left) or AfD (who no other party wants to form a coalition with).

The most likely outcome after the next election at this point looks like a coalition between the CDU and the Green party.

Unfortunately, CDU is probably in favour (they're pretty "law and order") and the Greens probably won't care enough to oppose strongly.

Die Linke (far left), Greens (left), FDP (socially liberal-ish but economically further right than CDU) and AFD (far right) are against it. SPD (left) is internally conflicted about this topic. CDU (right) is in favour.

So essentially everyone who isn't very into law and order type politics and cares about civil rights is against this, regardless of where they are on the political spectrum. This is typical for such issues in Germany.

> So essentially everyone who isn't very into law and order type politics and cares about civil rights is against this, regardless of where they are on the political spectrum.

That does not apply to the afd.

German parties always are against something until they are in power, then they magically have changed their minds or agree "with stomach pain"...