Maybe it’s because I’m a foreigner living in Germany, but from what I gather few people really want to see her back in power. If anything, it’s more of a longing for a bygone era where stability and the international set of rules many had grown up with still applied.
Personally I believe her reign was one of the worst things to happen to Germany in my lifetime. For 16 years nothing really changed, unless her hand was forced. One of the very few unambiguously positive and lasting changes during her reign was marriage equality - which she personally voted against in parliament.
@jjpamsterdam i believe this is just why some people have this rose-tinted view of her.
Germans are afraid of change - unless they have been exposed to actual cultural exchange (No, ten days Ballermann doesn’t count) - and call it stability in order to give it a positive twist.
Merkel gave them/us just that - inertia.
As a german I’d rather have her back than continue having Friedrich Merz.
No change is better than change for the worse.
Of course I’d like it even more if we had someone willing to make changes while also caring about people.
If only we had a Social Democratic Party :⁻[
A quote loosely based on Vladimir Putin:
Who doesn’t miss Mutti has no heart. Who wants her back has no sense.
We got such wonderful things from the Germans during Merkel, like for example: Nordstream, Ostpolitik (buddy Putin), Replacing Nuclear with coal, Nordstream 2.
Just a disgraceful legacy. And we have to live with it now.
Exactly. I’m not hating her, but the decissions she made were pretty damn stupid, thinking back now
A lot of countries warned germany after crimea was taken, but she didn’t listen sadly
