Comment by Helmut10001

Nice summary, thank you. As a German who has spend significant time in the US, too, I could not put my finger on the missing part within all these pessimistic other comments. But it is there: Germany and the US are still very similar, if you leave some details aside. Just the timing is problematic at the moment. We will see. One big question is whether we can stop the AfD. The next big question is if we can channel all the energy from young people to do the necessary changes that the current old generation couldn't, for various reasons. Don't be blinded: Not just Germany is in a transition phase, the whole world is. One (of many) fragile moment(s) in the history of humans.