Good day all. Over the weekend, there was a series of elections in Germany. Due to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policies, Germany has been essentially overrun with refugees from the Middle East.
After the New Years Islamic Rape party this year, the Germans finally decided they had enough of Merkel’s open borders policies and demanded that she shut down any further admittance of these refugees.
Merkel not only refused, she doubled down saying they would allow even more in and then turned loose the German legal system on the protestors. Yesterday was the first election since Merkel’s policies took flower and from what I understand, her party was slammed at the polls. Here are some fo the details from Bloomberg:
If you think Donald Trump has some outrageous ideas, wait until you meet Germany’s AfD party.
Well, that was a nice shot at Trump, who has nothing to do with the German political system. To continue…
The Alternative for Germany, to give the party its full name, has shaken up the country’s consensus-driven politics with headline-grabbing policies that include telling Germans to have more children to avoid the need for immigration. Frauke Petry, the AfD’s co-leader, has said that police must “prevent illegal border crossings, using firearms if necessary.”
I can’t speak to this bit about Germans having more children other than to say two things. First, Germany does have a demographics issue, since German women aren’t having a lot of children, and second, this smacks a bit to much like the Nazi Lebensborn program. Still, Germany.
Like Trump, her rhetoric hasn’t damaged AfD support but rather struck a chord with those disgruntled with the establishment parties, in particular nabbing voters unhappy with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policy for refugees. The party surged to record support in Sunday’s regional elections, taking seats in all three states that voted and boosting its representation to half of Germany’s 16 state assemblies. The AfD had its strongest showing in Saxony-Anhalt with 24.2 percent, making it the second-biggest party in the former communist eastern state, according to preliminary official results.
Now, I will state for the record that I do not understand the German system. I believe it’s some version of a parliamentary system, much like Great Britain’s. I’ll let those far better versed than I comment on it. In any case, these “Lower level” elections, (I’m thinking similar to our city and state elections up to and including Congress)
The rise of the AfD in Germany mirrors growing support for populist politicians such as National Front leader Marine Le Pen in France and Trump, who has called for banning Muslims from emigrating to the U.S.
A slight correction. Trump has called for a pause on Muslims coming into the United States. Now, one of the reasons people around the world, are objecting not only to Islamic immigration, but other, low quality migrants is as simple as it it complex. First is assimilation.
These people being let in, or just storming across the borders, are not even trying to assimilate into the host country’s culture. What’s worse, these “Migrants” are demanding that everyone kowtow to their cultural systems. For Muslims, this means that Germans, and other European counties, should bow to Sharia Law.
The second, and arguably more complex issue is jobs. The ruling elites in Europe and America claim they can’t find anyone to do the jobs that the “Migrants” will do. In the United States, this means both H1B visas and illegal aliens working for pennies. (At least the H1B visa holders are here legally, so they get paid more than the illegals, just not as much as an American or Permanent Resident Alien)
In reading the response of the Ruling elites in Germany, you find a remarkable similarity with the Republican Establishment in how they are seeing Donald Trump and the people who support him, and to a lesser extent, Ted Cruz. For instance, this is what the leader of the German AfD party said after the electoral victories:
“We have fundamental problems in Germany that led to this outcome,” Frauke Petry said on broadcaster ARD Sunday to explain the party’s surge. “Now we want to force the other parties into a substantive debate.”
Hmm, that sound reasonable. She wants to discuss the problems Germany is facing, thanks to the current leadership. I don’t see any threats here, just a desire to talk about the problems and find a solution. And the response from the ruling elites?
The German political establishment is having none of it, vowing instead to band together to keep the AfD out of government. Petry has responded by saying her party plans to take on an opposition role to push AfD policies in the face of what they see as a cartel of established politicians.
Are the German elites trading talking points with the GOP(e)? I know from my reading that the AfD has been compared with Nazi’s, just like Trump has been compared to Hitler. While I haven’t been following German politics much, (Or at all), I don’t see the people running that party taking their cue from Mein Kampf.
Oh sure, they will have their share of nutjobs and idiots, just as there have been a few KKK types trying to tie themselves to Trump. I know that Trump doesn’t tolerate those scum, (No matter what the Mostly Stupid Media claims), and I suspect that the AfD leadership, along with the other like minded parties on the rest of Europe, won’t tolerate neo-Nazi’s causing problems in theirs.
I think we’re beginning to see a global political shift in the winds, at least among the western nations. For decades, the Progressive Liberal/Left have worked undermine western cultures and give the appearance of trying to create a “One World Government.” They see no difference in the cultures of some of the most barbaric nations and their own.
Unfortunately for them, the “Hoi Polloi” do see a difference and have grown tired of being ignored and in some cases, threatened by the people they elected to protect them. Now that the voters are starting to turn on them, they are in full panic mode, both in Europe and in the United States. To that I say, “Suck it up Buttercup!” You’ll be out of those very nice taxpayer funded government offices and looking for a real job in short order.
Thatisall
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Much as I would LIKE this to be a full-out smack-down, someone on some other site pointed out that AT BEST this was an annoyance.
For now.
Mind you, if she doesn’t grow a brain and recognize the handwriting on the wall SOON, it will get to be a probably rather undemocratic and definitely VERY loud — probably outright violent — “smack-down”. Think along the lines of “let them eat cake” and the rather short-term (and shorter bodies) aftermath.
But for now, it’s just a really annoying “bump in the road”.
As I mentioned, I don’t really understand the German election system. It may, and probably is an annoyance to her. Or it could be the canary in the coal mine.
Ve shall Zee mein herr. 😉
In detail, at least, neither do I. But it’s a parliamentary-based system, so at least some basic similarities apply. And with significantly more than merely two semi-viable political parties there, no one party can (usually, at least) win an outright majority. So coalition governments are very common. Probably on the order of 95+%.
Which also means her government could literally fall at ANY point in time, if (enough of) her allies in her coalition desert her.
Likely? No. Certainly “not yet”, at least. But at least “theoretically” possible.
It’s possible this is the beginning of the end. More likely is this is merely the end of the beginning. Either way, though, she’ll probably dig in her heels and the next election AfD picks up even more (and/or other parties that are “more moderate” but aren’t as invader-friendly as hers).
Eventually, SHOULD it remain democratic (don’t hold your breath) the opposition count will be big enough that she won’t be able to gain a majority with her current coalition. And then it gets messy.
Should people run out of patience, however, it gets even messier. Faster.
“It’s possible this is the beginning of the end. More likely is this is merely the end of the beginning.”
Paraphrasing Churchill with regards to the Germans? 😉
I think it will get a lot messier over there, especially if Great Britain pulls out of the EU. I haven’t followed the polls on THAT yet, but since King Putt is against it, it’s probably a good idea and the British voters will approve it.
He did have some quotable lines, didn’t he? And nobody but those who bother to study history and go searching for REAL history ever hear them anymore.