They also hardly have a plan to strengthen the economy and create more jobs. Today the majority of the Germans is dissatisfied with the government and the Social Democrats and the Greens in general. The Social Democrats had big losses. The PDS is still a very successful party in Eastern Germany. Second, in the five new states democracy isn't as marked as it is in the Western part.
Few people are members of a party here.
Active democracy, as it is especially lived in the United States, is hardly there. The Eastern Germans grew up in a communistic regime, and a lot of them still think politics is only the government's job. In their opinion the government is supposed to create equality and to secure work for everyone - and that's exactly what the PDS wrote on their banners. That slogan won the former communists votes especially many unemployed and elderly people. A current poll even revealed that 14 percent of the Eastern Germans wish to get back the Wall and the German Democratic Republic.