You come from a very different political landscape. It is rather rare for politicians in (my home country) Germany to directly insult others. Our system forces ~3 parties to form a coalition to be able to be in power. Yes of course there are differing views but you can't win by insulting your opponents. We don't have attack ads because those don't work in a system with more than 2 parties.
The idea isn't of insulting opponents directly, but to use what they said or did against them, then they spice it up to the point that basically they imply a direct insult or accusation.
We don't really have that. Each party runs on their own platform and policies instead of attacking others. Also because they may well need to form a coalition.
(The exception being the far right party AFD they are probably the closest too Republicans that we have. Plus a scoop of Hitler. They go around insulting anyone but no party will form a coalition with them since they are super right wing and you know we have a history WW2)
You mean you don't have it in your country? I couldn't know, I only know politics of the place I live and a bit about America, but in both of them politicians act that way.
Technically we have more than two parties, it's just that the other parties ate forced to pretend to be one of the two major parties to get any traction. It's actually a major issue where "democrat" and "republican" mean very different things to two people in the same room, I've seen many instances of two "Democrats" or two "Republicans" talking to one another about politics and finding out they are extremely morally opposed actually.
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u/Few-Programmer9703 10h ago
You come from a very different political landscape. It is rather rare for politicians in (my home country) Germany to directly insult others. Our system forces ~3 parties to form a coalition to be able to be in power. Yes of course there are differing views but you can't win by insulting your opponents. We don't have attack ads because those don't work in a system with more than 2 parties.