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They could've, but people and politics are hard and they didn't. It is what it is, can't change the past. We win or we learn.

• suddenlybananas 3mo ago
  That kind of fatalism could apply to literally any idiotic policy. The German government knew what they were doing when they made that choice.
  • looperhacks 3mo ago
    "You can't change the past" really isn't fatalism
  • RandomLensman 3mo ago
    You think voters had no role there? I don't see nuclear power enjoying some constitutional protection as such, so choosing against it seems ok.