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My comparison was merely to illustrate that I'm not a well pampered elitist dolt living on a trust fund while generously giving away my country to strangers. That does happen you know.
I don't recall having said that you were anything of the sort.
Pleasure. Let it also be added that the poll figures are just a snapshot of today's moment. National elections are almost a year away and anything can happen in the meantime.
The people's opinion doesn't decide who becomes chancellor.
Well, seeing how the chancellor is not elected directly, that's true. OTH (to exaggerate for the sake of illustration) if one wants Merkel in the seat, one would be pretty dumb to vote Greens, let alone AfD or the Left. She or anyone else will need the majority of votes in the new parliament (Bundestag)to be (re-) elected as chancellor. If you don't have the majority you don't get that.
But does the Reichstag listen to its constituency and vote accordingly? That would be sensible to me.
Dunno what you mean by Reichstag, that's just the name of the building from olden times. The German parliament is the Bundestag.
There is something similar to (not the same as) an electoral college when it comes to electing the Federal President. But that doesn't compare to the POTUS either in that s/he merely has a representative role (a bit like the Queen in UK) and not much clout beyond that (unlike the chancellor). There's nothing resembling any electoral college when it comes to appointing the chancellor. The party that wins or manages to form coalitions for sufficient support (majority of parliament seats) does that. And the voters know what to expect and cast their votes accordingly beforehand.
Incidentally as little a representative vote (as in popular vote) as it is in the US, even where both examples differ vastly.
More clueless than creating an underclass of poverty stricken foreigners who will represent a massive threat to civility? Let me remind you of your own cluelessness.
Again we have just your word for that, better said your description of how you FEEL. That doesn't make for much.
Didn't you say you've lived here? Your claims should possess validity if that is so.
Well you don't seem to get it. My centre of existence has been elsewhere for years. On that point I might as well spout forth on how Outer Mongolia should run its affairs.
As an example I'd not hold the US election system to be desirable over here (winner takes all, popular vote trashed). But that's how it's done over your end and has been done ever since the US was founded. It works for you and that means "don't fix what ain't broken". I wouldn't presume to say otherwise and certainly wouldn't presume to shove any electoral system that works over here onto somebody else over your end.
Same reason I stay out of the gun controversy, the abortion fights and the whole Dems vs. Rep fracas. I don't live in the relevancy of any of those so I won't shoot off the mouth at those that do, whatever their individual take.
Yeah, I share the sentiment.