Merkel time is over. The current CDU leader is a man owned by the chemical industry. The "C" is ancient history. The whole political spectrum in the US is so far right, a Republican party would end up under the feds scrutiny here, just like the AfD is.

Actually, a German "Republican party" was declared illegal a few years ago, and you need shitloads of evidence to do something like in Germany.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Reminder that even the lutheran-calvinist church (aka the protestant chruch) and catholic church spoke out against the CDU/CSU for their migration and refugee stands. The CDU/CSU responded by calling both "Left-Green siffed" and many quit the church

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 3 days ago

The current CDU leader is a man owned by the chemical industry.

Lol and somebody tried to argue with me that germany is not an oligarchy and there are no clans

I wonder how energy intensive chemical industry really is and what their main energy input would be