GK>> "Germany prefer leftist parties"? How come that most of the time we GK>> have governments led by conservative parties and conservative GK>> chancellors? You must be calling the CDU a leftist party...
WD> That can easily be explained by Bob's American background.
WD> As you know I do spend quite some time in the USA and the political WD> thinking there is really screwed.
WD> Republicans are called conservatives and Democrats are liberal to the WD> left in their realm.
WD> The thing is that I see nothing leftist overthere and even the WD> Democrats, which they call liberals, are so conservative you wouldn't WD> believe it.
WD> Hence anything which for us is kinda conservative towards the center, WD> like the CDU, for them is leftist ... extreme even.
Thanks for explaining the realities. Gerrit is pretty naive in political matters, having only experience with the German system.
