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eugyppius's avatar

Many ask about the significance of "traffic light." Via a somewhat recent convention, all German political parties have a colour. The Greens are green, naturally; the social democrats or SPD are red; the liberal FDP are yellow. (AfD are blue, and CDU/CSU are black, if you were wondering).

As all three are in the coalition government together, we have a red, yellow and green government – a traffic light, in other words. Thus the traffic light is a symbol for the coalition.

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In Woody Allen's "Love and Death," set in Russia in the 1800s, Allen's character proposed that it should be the serfs who run government, because they're the only ones who know how to DO anything. The elites are about to get a hard reminder of a banal fact: everyone needs to eat, but only farmers have the knowhow to make it happen. These "serfs" may not be in charge, but we are all about to re-learn that they are IN CONTROL, and not just in Germany. This control should not be squandered after the tractors return to their places in the barns.

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