The good guys win!

[yakalskovich]

WTG SWABIA!!!

Today, the state government that caused this spectacular clusterfuck over a mere train station was successfully voted off, and the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, or Swabia, is getting the first ever Green Party-led state government ever.

After 58 years of straight conservative rule.

See them cheer on this short vid from a bloke on my blogroll on blogger.de

Comments

[ceitfianna]

Wow. Good for them. Its wonderful when democracy works.

[yakalskovich]

It does, in this case!

[(Anonymous)]

....and it feels...incredibly great...
Egypt was very different, not to compare with us here, but today I know a little bit, how an Egyptian felt. A little, little bit.

[yakalskovich]

Well, the conservatives there ruled for longer than even Mubarak did, and they were quite corrupt at the end.

They didn't torture and kill people on purpose, of course, and in Egypt, they did. And it was a democratic change, not a revolution. But it was a big step.


If only the so-called liberals had got 0.4 % less...

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!

[yakalskovich]

Well, it's not my state -- mine is Bavaria, and all we achieved here so far was taking the absolute majority from the conservatives.

But the election in Swabia yesterday was a good and auspicious beginning.