Germany is currently a socialist-dominated political system, as is Mexico, but there are huge differences in the GDP per capita, tax rates, and GINI coefficients between the two countries, which I thought was interesting and worth sharing here.
Germany's socialist party is the SPD, and the country has a tax-to-GDP ratio of 39%.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/comparing-tax-systems-around-the-world/
Meanwhile, Mexico's socialist party is Morena, and has one of the lowest tax-to-GDP ratios in the 38 member OECD, at 16.5%. (The USA is at 24.5%)
Germany's GDP per capita is $51,000.
Mexico's GDP per capita is $10,000.
(USA is at $71,000 per capita)
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality the GINI coefficient for Germany is 31.7% and Mexico is at 45.4%. (The USA is at 41.5% GINI).
When I see these numbers, I think even when the German SPD is NOT in power, the country is still fundamentally, deeply socialist. So Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic party was still effectively ruling over a socialist country.
Anyway, what do you all think about the German system?