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Alice In Deutschland
Hotly-anticipated German election results offered few surprises if the ballot offered any at all.
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“This is a great day for Germany, and for the United States of America under the leadership of a gentleman named Donald J. Trump,”
The best saurkraut is still made in Poland!
Yes, AfD nearly doubled its share of the vote. But the high turnout countrywide and the failure of the FDP and BSW to enter parliament means that AfD’s 20% share is (mostly) for naught. With a nod to “Duck, Duck Goose Step”, this is a middle finger to Trump and Leon. It’s not a big one, but it’s something.
And don’t be fooled by the reporting of mainstream US media on this election. They would have it that the result proves that Germany has lurched heavily rightward and is now goose-stepping to the latest Trump/Putin/Orban beat. I could not avoid anti far-right demonstrations in the weeks prior to the election. That doesn’t get nearly as much ink as the extremist right news, but believe me, it’s there.
There are still plenty of clear heads here. The scales have definitely fallen from German eyes and, to a great extent, those of a centrist persuasion all over Europe: the Axis of dictators — actual and would-be — are not trustworthy partners.
As hard as finding new security modi will be, an equally tricky problem is creating multilateral economic relations that work in a beggar-thy-neighbor world.
Nice to hear, from another heart of civilization, an alternative take stated from a USA perspective. Assure you here there are many people talking prior to what is typically the next phase, creation of a thought police force that enforces adulation of the King. Talking will destroy the propaganda at it’s core.
Today read that a GOP senator called for the compassionate treatment of Federal workers. Compassion in any form is destructive to the fascist narrative.
And FWIW in the states, lots of angry testimonials from Trump supporters who have either already lost their public job or find it galling to be given an ultimatum with 48 hours notice to justify their continued employment. I believe this will have a broad and lasting chilling effect on anyone with traditional motives seeking employment, let alone a career, in public service (as is the obvious goal).
And on a drive around the area yesterday, every single one of the half-dozen Tesla outlets I passed had a vibrant anti-Musk protest going on.
It’s a start.
Just a quibble with “murdered six million” as that is only the estimate of Jews killed. “Most estimates place the total number of deaths during the Second World War at around 70-85 million people. Approximately 17 million of these deaths (20-25 percent of the total) were due to crimes against humanity carried out by the Nazi regime in Europe.” https://www.statista.com/statistics/1071011/holocaust-nazi-persecution-victims-wwii/
Two terrors have stuck in German hearts and minds over the past 70 years – all of our longest US and German minds. One of them needs to remain (and it seems that is this publisation’s focus) but one needs to be finally defeated. And here with H i the lead (a money oriented team after all) we have ignored it. It is the key to this election and the future. The monetary terror might have been downgraded by Putin, Trump, and the rise of the AFD.
The Hyper inflation of 1922 – 1923 is the fear that has hobbled Germany ever since and its existance was more Socialist / Communist driven and a function of European “blame for World War’ (of course they were on the other side – and worse than Trump, in getting their’s)) and it was a function of Woodrow Wilson’s collapse. The war and the Verssailles ‘peace” is the root cause of this monetary terror, 100 years later. The German’s escaped in 1924, but the people were mentally destroyed and with the Depression it all blew up.
The Trump strategy could be more vicious than Wilson and France’s. Getting the FDP out of the government is the important thing here. German must spend to vent its anti Putin chops – and save its life. Buy Germany – now is the chance. The most critical things are the weakness of germany after no nuclear power and a sleeping army and how weak is Russia. The years ahead will be rocky.