Klumpen0815: Obviously no sense in talking to you, keep your lack of respect and manners to yourself, thank you.
wpegg: Woah there. You used the word "bullshit". I was genuinely asking what you were referring to.
Sorry, I misunderstood you there, I'd have written the word with " " if it's supposed to be a quote of a single word, don't know if this is the usual way in English, but I thought so.
I was referring to her contradictory actions.
The CDU is tighly entangled in the nuclear power lobby, so her reaction towards Fukushima was entirely for public relations to stay in power, they still try to cater to their lobby too though of course but it has become increasingly difficult and you can't let the population that is mostly against nuclear power for a very long time know about it and can't continue as usual. It wasn't a very nice event for the conservatives.
When it comes to handling immigrants, the CDU is mostly very nationalistic and are known for wanting closed borders and expulsing more people. They even made children that were born here and just at least wanted to finish their Abitur leave. If the CDU is opening borders, it's always connected to a plan that is more important than their usual reactionary ways but they are seldomly/never honest about it. The CDU/CSU's connections to US government and US corporations have been very tight ever since WW2 and Merkel also wanted to participate in the invasion or Iraq and would have done so if her party would have been in power back then (which would have destabilized Germany and the EU even more).
With those people it's always about a balance of catering to their lobbies/corporations, the US government and last but not least the German population, which sadly is the least important group since many of those don't vote anyway and the huge amount of money spent on pro-CDU propaganda is doing the rest. Needless to say, that the high management of the official radio and tv stations is a staff of people from the two biggest parties in the country: CDU and (the by now not so very different) SPD. The resulting decisions are mostly being kept secret and every event (world cups, wars, even a new born polar bear in a zoo in Berlin a while ago ffs etc...) gets used to distract the public from important decisions (like TTIP atm).
Keeping the peasants at each others throats with this ridiculous left vs. right dichotomy is practically always a major part of all this. This is how German politics work.
BTW: Wasn't Merkel handled as a potential winner of the nobel peace price not long ago? Stuff like this and
this may be part of all of it.