An old but creaking system of consensus, the lingering loyalty of bosses and employees to an unaffordable social-welfare model, and a web of constitutional checks and balances designed to prevent even the most fleeting thought of another tyranny, have all made it extraordinarily hard to carry out reform in Germany.

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"Turning your back on a damaged relationship may be the simplest or most sensible solution, one that frees you from the tyranny of hope, " Spring writes.

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Most notably, many of these cosponsors were nations that emerged from tyranny in the second half of the last century.

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