Just shows the bastard’s character. A politician with integrity would have resigned.
A lot of people are angry about him switching party, here in the New England, not that the people I talked with, would have voted for him in the first place…

Looks like we are like the US… where is the outrage over the AUKUS sub deal?? Sure there are some critics, but not even the parliament has ever voted on this. Makes the 20b US prop up for Argentina look like pocket money.

In a functioning democracy, public discourse should enable three core epistemic functions:
Verification – Truth must be testable, evidence-based
Deliberation – Disagreement must be engaged with, not silenced
Accountability – Power must be answerable for its claims & actions
This is the VDA Framework

I think the German constitution has got that head of state right, see
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preside...