A sad day for Germany

Today is a sad day for Germany. Many of us knew it would be, but tried our hardest to put on a smile and say a few optimistic words. Even up till the results were first broadcast, I hoped that there was some chance that this wasn´t going to happen. That the CDU and the FDP were not going to be able to jump into bed together. It did. Now we are stuck for the next four years in a nightmare.

The SPD are the big losers here: they can´t really form an alliance with the Linke party as they are too leftist and the Green party is just too small. So what is the big goal of the CDU and their new partner: lower taxes. How this is possible no one knows. The only thing that makes this a bit more decent is that in recent years the CDU has come more toward the center and the FDP is by no means a Republican party obsessing about family values and such garbage. No in fact the head of the FDP is actually gay so that should send a message that while they may be neo-liberal economists, they are left wing when it comes to accepting people as they are. For the next four years the German people have given the CDU and the FDP enough rope to hang themselves on, lets hope when the next election is coming around they figure out how to tie the noose.