The question is: who to vote for?
Of course, there are online quizzes:
Wahl-O-Mat zur Bundestagswahl 2009
(In German)
And there are books:
But still. I mean, I know I can eliminate the NPD, the Marxist-Leninists, the Grey Panthers and other fringe parties like the Partei Bibeltreuer Christen and 'Die Violetten - für spirituelle Politik.'
But Die Linke has become mainstream, largely because many Germans want troops out of Afghanistan (sound familiar?) and because the financial crisis-as-metaphor for the inevitable decline of capitalism has become something of a leftist rallying cry. Plus, Germany is generally fairly left-leaning, far more than, say, France.
They also have kind of badass ads ;)
I definitely just went there.
Unexpectedly, though, the Christian Democrats have also tried to sex up their ads:
(spiegel.de)
Caption: "We have more to offer."
This is so completely out of character that it is kind of awesome.
The Green Party has a sense of humour, too:
More on the other political parties later. But for now:
What would you vote for?
Tits or bum?
The Wahl-o-mat tells me to vote for the Pirate Party. We shall see about that, I'm undecided as of now. But in terms of advertisements they really have become quite interesting this year ! Although I imagine it's more intense in Berlin than here. Hope you're doing well! (It's Becky btw)
ReplyDeletehaha who is this random person? (no worries, i recognised you)...its true, i like the pirate ads the best too. but i'm leaning quite heavily towards die grüne...machst du auch briefwahl??
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