What does compartmentalization mean? The term is at the heart of the Great Seat Belt Debate. It was coined during the 1967 and 1972 Series 1 and Series 2 School Bus Passenger Protection collision tests conducted at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Opponents of the CDU are the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), The Left party and Alliance '90/The Greens. The CDU has however governed in three federal-level and numerous state-level Grand Coalitions with the SPD as well as in state and local-level coalitions with the Alliance '90/The Greens.
No. Her policies seem so left wing because the Republican party's banshee shrill voice of calling the Democrats left wing has landed, and not least of which must be considered, that anything compared to the now heavily-swung-to-the-far-right Republicans appears left wing. Your paradigm needs adjusting.