re: #52 ggt

This stuff confuses me because the labels can be different. Is “left” in German what we consider “left” here?

I think Germany as a whole is more “left” than the US (but still center-right in general). The SPD (Social Democracts), Germany’s oldest party, is typically considered left-wing as it traditionally has been representing Germany’s labor movement. Some would challenge that classification, especially the more socialist and communist groups, the main one of them being The Left (yes, that is their name), largely being in the tradition of East Germany’s former ruling party, the SED.