I'm a native German, and I agree with all those points, even when speaking the language perfectly. Add high taxes and a surprisingly corrupt government when you pull back the curtains and I'm thinking about leaving again.
Our current chancellor had, when he was still mayor of Hamburg, a private meeting with bankers after which his tax office decided not to pursue that bank's criminal tax fraud, his party received significant donations from said bank, and hundreds of thousands of Euros were mysteriously found in his right hand man's safety deposit box.
It's a different Germany. Scholz just can't remember, because his brain resets after each crime. And it's not just Scholz, it's wherever you look when the curtain is drawn back. Remember RBB?
