Do German Parties Have a Right to Exist?

There seems to be a problem with the decline of the average German voter's interest in his or her political parties. The common question so far in the seminar has been, "What can we do to bring the parties to the forefront again?" I'm wondering if maybe the German party system needs a good shock (as if reunification was a shock). It might not be a bad idea to let one of the big parties disappear or get folded into a smaller party. Isn't there survival of the fittest in politics?

Political parties fail when they cannot attract new supporters. One of the reasons why parties do not seem to be picking up lots of new supporters is because the parties don't seem to be offering anything that new voters want. Maybe parties are the problem and the solution would be to let one or more fail to be replaced by more modern, tech-saavy parties.