I used the wrong translation. What I meant to say was "reserved". You know, trying to mediate, trying to go the slower, supposedly more "responsible" way, rather than brash action.

@@LucasBenderChannel ah yes, that one fits better :) regressive is quite a negative term in this context

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Politics in general are not that different all over the world. Ofc you can't just translate one party to another and our political traditions make for interesting nuances. But for the most part, you've got everyone dealing with similar issues.

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Very true. Still, I was referring to the common usage in both countries and those do differ. Most people just don't care about pre-existing definitions. :/

I think that's mostly down to our regulations on campaign funding. All donations to the parties over €50,000 must be reported to parliament, which publishes a list of all the big donors. They're also not allowed to put up posters for more than the official election season. Campaign ads on television are also severely limited in their length. Add to that the fact, that there's little inner-party fighting about candidates over here. German parties are a lot less democratic than the US ones, as in: There are no primaries to select a candidate for chancellor. Most of the time, the upper echelon of party bigshots just makes that decision, but the party base has little say in picking them. That's definetly a downside, BUT it has the nice positive effect that we do not have the intense personalization, where one person needs to establish a loud brand to beat off competitors from their own party. There's no incentive for an Olaf Scholz character to have "OLAF" written on all the campaign material. It's all focused on the parties, which de-personalizes politics a whole lot.

Surprisingly little has changed. Even the people leading the parties have remained more or less the same, as have their general positions and relations towards each other. So I wouldn't have to change much. The only meaningful development is, that "Die Linke" has lost a significant portion of its members to the offshoot "Bündnis Sarah Wagenknecht". They offer a more populist appeal, mixing left-wing economics with right-wing positions on social issues. They have been particularly vocal about trying to stop Germany from supplying further arms to Ukraine and propose entering early talks with Russia, possibly conceding to some of their demands. We'll see if this year's state elections will bring about some more drastic changes, with large expected gains for both the BSW and the AfD, possibly making traditional coalition governments mathematically unviable.