Oh ok

honestly what is stopping merkel from right here right now declaring martial law and siezing control?

our lack of a presidential system

macron can do that

Merkel can't

her need of not doing it since she has been elected for like 16 years?

why not? who will stop her?

admittedly I find that to be a fault of France's

because she's going to get kicked out

by whom?

by the other elected officials

dissolve their positions.

for merkel to cease control, all institutions would have to conspire at the same time

with our separate pillars that's nearly impossible

oppress them, sieze power, tell everyones its for the greater good etc. this has happened a hundred times throughout history.

we have other parties?

the CDU is only like a quarter or third of the Bundestag

The ones that conspired to maintain her?

I will say this.

If you guys @radeon @Deleted User think that because you have guns you will never be dominated or never will live under a tyrannical government, you guys already have the mindset to live under a tyrannical government

sure, *now* you do, but what about in 50 years?

for changes to the constitution there needs to be a 3/4ths majority

mma fighter is kinda right actually

no one said that @Fulcrum010

in 50 years the same pillars will be in place or we will have unelected Merkel

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Radeon said that

oh ok

we are not free because we have guns we have guns because we are free. You are not free.

i didnt

CDU and SPD are hemorhaging seats in both federal and state government positions

And we go back to the same point....

if your freedoms can be taken from you effortlessly you don't have them. they are meaningless words on paper.

Our government isn't Merkel

there's hundreds of people

i was using merkel as an example

who have to act consciously and conspiratorially

for even the remotest erosion to our systems to happen

The only loophole of oppression they have is the EU

my point is you have no idea what might happen in the future, which is the point of having a citizenry-backed constitution.

as it supercedes many aspects of a country's legal system

and their actions in the EU

are causing them to lose support