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Indeed German politicians have been consistently ignoring their voters' mandate for the last two decades:

The SPD (originally the worker's party) has destroyed the welfare state, the CDU (center right) lets in millions of refugees, and the Green party (originally anti war) goes to war.

It will be interesting what happens in the next federal elections. In the Berlin state elections the "ultra right" AfD had 12%.

The reason is of course that they also represent positions that originally were part of regular conservative agenda.

After the state elections Merkel suddenly started to (pretended to?) listen to some voter concerns.

Apparently in Germany politicians only react if protest parties approach 20% results.