The headline at Fox “News” blares: “German Elections: Big Setback for Merkel’s Conservatives as Center-Left Party Comes Out on Top.”  In a single sentence, it summarizes everything wrong with how American media and the American public understand what “conservative” means. In America, conservatives don’t want women to get abortions and some conservatives are even proposing More

The post Merkel Governed Germany to the Left of Bernie Sanders: Why Don’t Americans Know? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

This post was originally published on CounterPunch.org.