Neither Macron nor Merz are far left, or even left really. It's not clear they really have any political ideology whatsoever besides a mixture of 'whatever's co

Neither Macron nor Merz are far left, or even left really. It's not clear they really have any political ideology whatsoever besides a mixture of 'whatever's convenient' and globalism. If they were far left, they'd have far higher approval than 30, let alone 17. And that's the problem. With the "populist" candidates, you know what you're getting and if that's cool with you, then they actually make pretty decent candidates. But with these globalists, they seem to regularly behave in irrational ways that often are even self destructive. But again I think that's because most of them don't even particularly care much for their countries, or at least it's secondary to 'global' concerns. And that really doesn't appeal to many people even if they think it might, at first.