What happened to Europe?

[Hehehe]

He is (or pretends to be) pretty left wing and wants (or pretends to want to) bring the Social Democrats back from the center to Social Democracy. That makes him "worst of the worst" for someone of REDY's political leanings.
He's currently our best hope to get rid of Merkel and Schäuble and the austerity fetish, but he's pro EU and German, which makes him "vermin".
I myself am pretty sceptical. SPD in campaign mode os usually more left-wing than SPD in government mode, but at least they aren't outright dismissing the possibility of a coalition with our actual leftist party. That might be one of the reasons that the SPD's poll numbers are skyrocketing now.
A probably more important reason is that Schulz hasn't been a name in German politics for a while, so he has the veneer of an outsider despite his long political carreer. That gives him a quasi-populist appeal without the obvious incompetence or the hate- and fearmongering. He might become chancellor simply because the German electorate isn't sick of him.

I did some digging into Schulz. Personally I am pro-EU and I tend to lean anti-austerity. But aside from those, I can't say I agree with the man much. His promises regarding the economy seem like nothing more than empty vote-buying (to be fair, this is something every politician does, and not just him). He also seems pretty pro-immigration, which, while I disagree with, isn't my problem unless he tries to force his views on all of us through the EU. Furthermore, I have some doubts about his competence. Perhaps I'm wrong about this, we'll see if he ever gets elected.

To sum it up, if I were German and I had to choose between those two based on the information I currently have, I'd vote for Merkel.

 

[metatron]

Is it likely that Schulz would actually be anti-austerity? Cause up to now he hasn't done anything to that direction. I'd like to hope he would do something good, but i am way repulsed by the entire charade of german-led Eu.

Well, Schulz' election, if it happens, can really only increase the probability for more domestic public spending in the FRG (instead of yet another round of balanced budgets), which, as you can surely see, would be benefitial to your cause in multiple ways.

 

[REDY]

What was doing Merkel bad and Schulz has prospect to deal better? What are his successes?

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Well Merkel seems to have largely stopped caring about internal politics after heir early neo-liberal plans fell right on the nose. And since then it has been more than a decade.
So there is some very broad room for improvement.

 

[metatron]

Schulz

It just happened to occur to me:

The US have a greatest actress, in the running for greatest domestic actress of all times.
Her parents were white upper middle class people. She was a cheerleader. She vent wo Vassar.
It naturally follows that she mocks working class people for being unsufferable rubes.

The FRG has a greatest actress, in the running for greatest domestic actress of all times.
Her parents were from a mountain village in Turkey. Her father worked with a wrench and her mother was cleaning lady. Upon becoming famous she immediatly got outed for having done hardcore porn in her youth.
It naturally follows that she get's to explain the word "courage" to Elmo.

Is she with Schulz. Of course she is.

 

[Kyriakos]

It just happened to occur to me:

The US have a greatest actress, in the running for greatest domestic actress of all times.
Her parents were white upper middle class people. She was a cheerleader. She vent wo Vassar.
It naturally follows that she mocks working class people for being unsufferable rubes.

The FRG has a greatest actress, in the running for greatest domestic actress of all times.
Her parents were from a mountain village in Turkey. Her father worked with a wrench and her mother was cleaning lady. Upon becoming famous she immediatly got outed for having done hardcore porn in her youth.
It naturally follows that she get's to explain the word "courage" to Elmo.

Is she with Schulz. Of course she is.

You are turning towards r16's style of posting

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Nope, it takes less than an hour to read and I can make sense of it.

 

[Farm Boy]

Meryl Streep and Sibel Kekilli? This is stretching my ability to be media savvy.

 

[Kyriakos]

Meryl Streep and Sibel Kekilli? This is stretching my ability to be media savvy.

I knew it would be about that game of thrones girl. Sheila?

 

[Farm Boy]

I don't know, that was mostly google. I watched season 2 of that and regretted the expenditure of time.

 

[Mouthwash]

This could probably help with the OP's question.

(America is Black Swan resistant while deliberately constructed political unions like the EU aren't.)