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15. The multi-party system hasn't done Germany much good of late

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Germany had the sharp and capable Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt take over from Willy Brandt when he had to resign over having being infiltrated by the "socialist" East Germans. He had a rocky, but decent leadership until his coalition partners, the "Free Democrats," bolted and decided to go with the opposition Christian Democrats, where Merkel later played a big role when the East fell.

The Free Democrats are one of those fringe parties that wear ties and look respectable, but are hard to pin down as to what they stand for.

Now, we also have the Greens, who went from a group of environmentalist activists to a mature common sense party, easily surpassing the Social Democrats who have tired leaders and even more tired slogans.

Plus, there is the "Left," basically a loose group of the old west German far left coupled with the unreformed Berlin Wall killers of the east. Socialism as it really exists! (So they said).

And now, due to the fact that the East Germans said, "no Nazis here, only us socialists!" we also have a newly un-repressed far right movement that worries everyone else. And now, no one party can govern alone, or even with just one other party (on a national level).

Don't think a multi-party system is necessarily the cure to all that ails us. It sure as hell hasn't made Germany or France any stronger.