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Wilhelm Achauer

Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Posted on 10/10/12 at 12:50 am in response to Imagining some other ways to run elections

Germany has one of the best systems in place. It was created after World War II with the assistance of the Americans. The Bundestag elects half it's members from districts and half from party lists. A voter casts a vote for a represenative, and a party.

The post war coalitions have been with the small centrist Free Democrats with either the liberal or conservative party. For 18 years the Free Democrat leader Hans Dietrich-Genscher was the foreign minister and the most popular leader...

Posted on 10/03/12 at 12:41 am in response to U.S. or parliamentary system? One is nearly gridlock-proof — and it ain’t ours

Parliaments allow new parties to be created and give voice to smaller but significant voices. The Green party in Germany came about after enviromental crises and concerns about human rights and arms build ups. Their influence made Germany the leading environmental major power in europe. If we had a system like that the Tea Party would not have to invade and take over the Republican party..they could get elected by proportianal representation and would have no choice but to help govern as...

Posted on 07/26/12 at 01:01 pm in response to Why so many Republicans are publicly repudiating Bachmann

This is is the same old story, different group. Before the Muslims, it was fear of Catholics and the pope. JFK had to fend off the anti-papists. Before that its was Jews and the Jewish world bankers, or Freemasons...there is always a bogeyman. Go read the literature of the Nazis and their propagandists, they were saying all this.

Posted on 06/08/12 at 01:53 am in response to When it comes to public subsidies, Twin Cities light rail seems a bargain

I'm astonished that in America light-rail is considered by conservatves to be practically a socialist/social engineering/nanny state agenda. A true conservative would look at the data and cost benefit analysis and conclude that this is a long-term bargain of an investement that would last generations. Nine to one US Govt match. That is a 900% return on investement! Building for the long-term used to be a conservative agenda. Maybe in Dallas, but not here. In Europe conservatives build rail,...