VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: [1]234 ]


[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 05:37:38 11/07/04 Sun
Author: Chris
Subject: Re: German Politics and Culture
In reply to: Shane 's message, "Re: German Politics and Culture" on 14:44:26 11/06/04 Sat

Here is another article published by an American in Germany: "Tweaking the vote".

By the way, our Chancellor is not a socialist, but a social democrat, which is not the same, and most Germans nowadays question even that. We have a socialist party (PDS, the successor of the communist party SED in the former GDR, and only popular in the territory of the former GDR), we have no communist party (had been officially forbidden in 1956), and we have a nationalist parties (NPD, DVU, REP, unfortunately not forbidden, though there were attempts) (politicians believe they have better control over the movement if it is not forbidden and in the underground).

If you want to get an impression of the German nationalist party NPD, have a look at their homepage.

Apropos socialism, here is an old Jewish joke:

«How is Sandberg doing?»
«He is in Italy, trying to build up socialism there.»
«And what is the Lipshitzer doing?»
«He has a marvelous job in Spain, trying to build up socialism there.»
«And are there any news about Diamond?»
«He is in Israel now...»
«... trying to build up socialism there, I know.»
«Are you meshugge, in your own country?»

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Post a message:
This forum requires an account to post.
[ Create Account ]
[ Login ]
[ Contact Forum Admin ]


Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.