Originally Posted by
Slant
She's mostly still in power because... at the end of the day, the voter doesn't care for billions debts here, million refugees there, army deployment in afghanistan... what they care about are mundane things: Where will I get my teeth fixed, how much will it cost, will health care improve? How much tax disappears from my paycheck, how many toys can I buy?
Things like that. And as long as things look as stable and comfortable as they are now, and make no mistake, they look pretty fucking awesome from inside Germany, refugees or not, there is no reason not to reelect her. See, unlike other places, we've not yet caught on the whole reality tv election program. We're a bit old fashioned in where we actually look at what people say and do instead of what their PR managers try to sell them as. And the SPD has a pretty hard time topping "Keeping Germany's economy running at full steam while everyone else around us is fucked up economically".