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BelgianMadCow

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10. Social Democrats + Greens + (anti-capitalist) Left got 43% of the vote

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Reply #9)

Fri Nov 8, 2013, 08:35 PM

Nov 2013

and you're trying to characterise that entire society, which LED the resistance against ACTA, as conservative, in order to detract from the message of my OP I presume? Germany is one of the few functioning democracies left, in the West, imho. I don't consider the US, the Uk or Belgium among them.

It must be an unpleasant messsage. But it's your right to dismiss it.

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I appreciate they do so on balance. dipsydoodle Nov 2013 #6

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I chuckled when I heard that Brazil ALSO spies on American Diplomats! VanillaRhapsody Nov 2013 #2

Different scale hardly worth the mention. dipsydoodle Nov 2013 #5

Now I am chuckling again with YOUR response! VanillaRhapsody Nov 2013 #7

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Merkel's CDU got 41,5 % of the vote. 65 % of Germans don't approve of the US BelgianMadCow Nov 2013 #8

They are being led by a conservative and she won a 3rd term recently Cali_Democrat Nov 2013 #9

Social Democrats + Greens + (anti-capitalist) Left got 43% of the vote BelgianMadCow Nov 2013 #10

35% of Germans trust our government. About the same as the % of Americans who trust our government. Tierra_y_Libertad Nov 2013 #12