Opinion of the German SPD

[Phony Moderate]

Wonderful high energy party, so inspiring, so fricking thrilling.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Freedom Party

[Antonio the Sixth]

FP from its foundation to 1914, HP from 1914 to 1933, FP from 1933 to 1980 or so, lean HP since then.

[President Johnson]

Massive Freedom party of which I am a proud member for three years now.

[DavidB.]

Social Democrats in Western Europe = automatic Horrible Party, but one of the least bad ones (Danish SDs remain the best though).

[Kingpoleon]

Horrible Party, but one of the best major left wing European parties if not the best.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Dubious honour of being the best German speaking social democrats.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Dubious honour of being the best German speaking social democrats.

You only say this because you're a naive left-leftist who likes islamofascists like Erdogan.

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

Neither

[Slow Learner]

Joke party.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Social democracy = Horrible party

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

As a Pole: HP
As a human being: HP

[RedPrometheus]

As a member for 11 years I tend to say Freedom Party, though you should never underestimate it's willingness to self-destruction.

[aross]

Almost automatically a Freedom Party through its undeniable (despite its own hilarious attempts to do so in the Godesberg Programme, tainting a otherwise admireable document), whether one likes it or not, massive influence of socialism and its towering stature in the history of TIGMOO.

But...and let's be honest here...it's just sh**t, innit? Above and beyond the general social democratic malaise right now, I mean, though that is obviously weighing it down even more. But let's not forget that this is the party that reacted to a joint Nazi-establishment coup against them by complaining to the Constitutional Court and then meekly retired when told to bugger off. Add to that the general unhealthy German tendency of The Establishment Is Always Right and you have a party that quite simply took the wrong turn at most of the decisive points in its history. Undoubtedly being the most influential party in the history of Germany and yet only leading its government for 22 years in 140 years of existence is hard to count as a track record anything but failure, if noble failure.

The less said about the current state of the party the better of course. I haven't voted, I just can't seperate the two things above in my head and neither would feel appropriate.