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Well we know now

Proportional representation, delivering yet another establishment stitch up.

I like to see losers clearly ejected, not collaborating with their supposed enemies to keep out outsiders.

The "Center Right party" (NPR terminology) announced "We have heard the concerns of voters so next year refugees will be capped at no more than 825,000"

Dude, I doubt that is what the voters said.

You know back in 2015 I was pretty vocal in private circles about the sheer folly of it all and specifically about the Merkel gov superseding the law, and for some people that view was hard to stomach.
Well.
Now it´s 2018 and you have quite a few people voicing much less nuanced concerns.

This will be a coalition of losers indeed, stumbling about, struggling with the burden of mistakes past.

Not so sure about the outsiders path, the Greens got their protestant-church do-gooders, the AfD sports oddballs and die-hard social conservatives, thing about German politicians is ... well if you are socialized German and really gifted you rather go into science of engineering instead of politics or business, with of course, many exceptions. As always, the worst people go for law.

So there´s space in politics for the dutiful, which is what we have got now.

Coming to think of it, Frau Minister and Herr Staatssekretär are still zooming about Berlin in armoured Limos, guarded by the BKA, as they have been for most of the last decade, so no disturbers of the peace thereabouts, and Berlin journos have learned to be tame lest the eternal chancellor´s lackeys deny them the usual perks.
So outsiders to the circle of power are where they belong indeed.

Man... I hope the Germans can neuter those assholes soon.

Otherwise they're just going to continue filling the country with enough foreign voters to keep them in just enough power to continue as-is.

Foreign Voter Feedback Loop can keep the balance tipped, and Merkel's lot in charge. That's what the Dems have been doing here, too, and it's finally come to a head.