Enkrod

We have Senate and House of Representatives analogues, the AfD will be very influential in the Bundesrat (roughly equivalent to the Senate) because they will be the strongest party in some States but in the Bundestag (HoR), where representation is proportional it’s extremely unlikely that they will be able to create a governing coalition, because if the CDU/CSU does that, they imho. will bleed voters all over and not win any election for decades.

But forcing the democratic parties to form an all-encompassing coalition will also be bad for all of them. Still better for the country, but really unstable and basically grind government operations to a minimum consensus for four years.

Our courts are… well okay-ish. They might have some hard conservatives (and will get worse with the AfD able to put judges forward), but generally the courts are seen as stable, fair and guardians of the democratic process. But the democratic process might just not be as crucial as democracy itself, when it’s tools are used to get rid of democracy.

All in all, even with Russia puppeteering the AfD, I have way more confidence in the gernan, than in the american public, mostly because the “culture war” hasn’t yet overcome the political need for cooperation in our proportional representative system.

As a German: You’ll be welcomed and appreciated, just know that we too are fighting a political right shift and that the neonazi AfD might emerge as one of, if not the strongest party next election cycle. Especially if Trump wins this will float nationalist and fascists in Europe on the rising brown tide. It’s extremely unlikely they’ll end up in government though.

Generally immigrants from the US are quite happy over here and report high satisfaction with their move if they have a) children or b) health issues that cost an arm and a leg in the US and also bring a patience for German bureaucracy and good language skills.

Since you have German citizenship you are free to also consider the Netherlands (easier finding a job with only English, way higher cost of housing) or other EU countries, since you can settle in any one thanks to freedom of movement (Spain might be easier on your wife, since she’ll speak the language).

• “I think that Ashenthroat guy might be a Dragon in disguise”
• “Kill it!!! But don’t hurt it, awwww.”
• “Don’t worry GM, I wont make you improvise info on every single soldier NPC. - Ok, so you there, what’s your name and why are you here?”
• “If we take every hostile NPC we come across prisoner to await a 100% death-sentence, instead of killing them here and now, we’ll have to start building concentration camps soon and I don’t know if that’s actually better or worse.”
• “Maybe don’t kill the beast?” - “Too late, running now!”
• “Gentlemen, can’t we solve this peacefully?” - “Yes, of course, we’re always ready to talk. But only if it ends with you dead.” - “You seemed to have missed the point there.”

just to show you how absurd and off of what was actually said your argument is, let’s do to your argument what you did to theirs:

“So you think our representatives should not be representative of the population? Only rich, white, people should be politicians? You think there are no people of colour with political skills equal or better than those already in power? You think there isn’t a single second or third generation immigrant who could do a better job than Andi Scheuer or Armin Laschet?”

It’s definitely a me thing

Is the antisemitism in the room with us right now?

https://feddit.org/comment/90760 quite literally

Man, I hate this “ThE jEwS” crap… Zionist Israel is not “the Jews” and equating them is actually quite antisemitic.