It is indeed an accurate description. I live in a neighboring country. Germany's energy failure costs me the equivalent of about an entry level Macbook Pro every year.

I don't have kind words for SPD/Die Grünen in specific, or, to be frank, Germany in general.

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tcfhgj 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> I don't have kind words for SPD/Die Grünen in specific, or, to be frank, Germany in general.

because they've governed Germany for the past decades ... wait ... they have not?

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eska 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Out of the last 28 years they have spent only 4 in the opposition. SPD together with CDU are the two major parties shaping Germany. As opposition they also always had a majority veto right.

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tcfhgj 6 hours ago | parent [-]

they wrote SPD/Die Grünen, not SPD/CDU

	▲	lysace 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		To be fair I also blame all of Germany.

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sajithdilshan 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

SPD has been part of almost every government formed since the WWII

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ahartmetz 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Oh no, not at all. When CDU and SPD were both very strong (until about 2005-2010), they never once had a coalition, and CDU won elections more often than SPD.

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sajithdilshan 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah right, Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt are from CDU

	▲	ahartmetz 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Konrad Adenauer, Ludwig Erhard, Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Helmut Kohl were CDU chancellors without SPD for a total of 36 years. Merkel had one election period out of four without SPD, so there was a total of 40 years of no SPD. That is much longer than "almost never" for a country that is about 80 years old. There were SPD chancellors for 24 years total, CDU the rest. German politics have been traditionally mostly CDU dominated.

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lysace 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Gerhard Schröder, German social democrat/SPD and later Putin associate.