History Memes

The SPD-Greens coalition ruined our social security system. That was so politically left of them, that the SPD's actual left wing left the party en bloc (and later united with the PDS to become the modern Left Party).
The Traffic Light coalition (SPD-Greens-FDP) was led by an SPD chancellor who (as a minister for interior affairs in Hamburg) introduced emetics as a method to deal with suspects in drug cases who supposedly had swallowed evidence. That practice led to the death of Achidi John. The FDP (liberal party) is a party for the ultra rich, their minister of finance (and the head of party), Christian Lindner, was a lobbyist all the time and disgustingly unempathetic towards financially weaker classes. The traffic light coalition did some more progressive things like simplifying the process to change one's gender entry, expanding on regenerative energies and actually improving the social security system (a little bit), though they themselves ruined the progress made for the social security system only less than two years later. And all three parties participated in the populist rhetorics against refugees, migrants, the unemployed, low income workers etc.

No sir, Germany did not have left governments yet. Liberal, almost even neoliberal, yes, but nothing that can be considered traditionally left values like worker's rights, redistribution of wealth, improving the lives of financially lower classes etc.

That seems to be a very American to view. I would not place any (West) german Gouvernement since WW2 even near "left".