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They could've, but people and politics are hard and they didn't. It is what it is, can't change the past. We win or we learn.

That kind of fatalism could apply to literally any idiotic policy. The German government knew what they were doing when they made that choice.

"You can't change the past" really isn't fatalism

You think voters had no role there? I don't see nuclear power enjoying some constitutional protection as such, so choosing against it seems ok.