The Satirists Had a Point

So Die Partei - you can believe whatever you want about them. They blame the Russians for everything, think Germany shouldn’t take in more refugees than the Mediterranean can handle, and want to bring back emergency exams where students get five questions nailed to the chalkboard in early June and the answers are just posted online beforehand. Then you chill.

Ridiculous stuff. But I took the Wahl-O-Mat quiz honestly, let every answer be exactly what I thought, and it matched me 71.1 percent with Die Partei. Greens at 69.7 percent, the Left at 68.4 percent, some other party at 68.3. Maybe they’re not as incompetent as I figured.

Look, whether you want Die Partei running Germany or not, you have to respect what Martin Sonneborn’s satirist crew does with campaign ads. They’re the only ones making anything that doesn’t sound like it was written by a dead thing in a suit. Nico Semsroth’s got this ad aimed at non-voters, trying to sell them on Die Partei. His pitch is perfect: don’t care if they win? Vote for them anyway. At least it keeps the AfD out. Maybe the FDP. Possibly the SPD.

Stupid. Funny. And they weren’t lying.