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Christopher Jones's avatar

The AfD's rise began as a professor's party founded in opposition to the abolition of the deutschmark and its replacement with the euro. But the roots of malaise go back even further when Helmut Kohl completely botched the unification with the east. His one west mark for one east mark was a total disaster. In fact the former DDR has never recovered. Germany has been in the grips of predatory capitalists ever since then. Another price Germans had to pay was a lobotimized political discourse which allowed successive governments to turn a blind eye to Israeli crimes, US imperialism and so on. Let us not forget that de-nazication was also a very bizarre affair and many of the children or grandchildren of the WWII generation seems to think they could succeed against Russia where Napoleon. and Hitler couldn't. In all they like the predatory capitalist Europe they represent is doomed.

Gnuneo's avatar

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

bill's avatar
2dEdited

excellent, incisive and powerful insights, to me seeming right over the target// i would be looking too for the formidable Sahra Wagenknecht to somehow be a focus of change

Helen Scoffield's avatar

Do EU officials have to punch cards when they go to work? How many actual hours a day do they work for their employers the people, and how many hours thinking up ways to spend their employers cash on foreign meddling, rape, pillage and slaughter? How many hours spent cleaning up the migratory and foreign relations messes their galavanting abroad have brought upon their employers "the people"?

Digger B!'s avatar

The bankers and industrialists who control people like Merz and Macron have invested heavily in China, where the overheads are less and the workforce more subservient. They are more than happy to collapse their Western factories, especially now that finished goods can be delivered anywhere in the world thanks to the One Belt One Road infrastructure...

Peter Andrew Nolan's avatar

I blew the whistle on Angela Merkels planned Mass Immigration program in September 2014. Two weeks later four, count them, FOUR ARMED COPS broke into my home, violently assaulted me and dragged me out of my home in cuffs to be jailed in the shitty Karlsruhe 19th century jail. All on the direct orders of Angela Merkel. And when I got out Angela Merkel refused the processing of my claim for political asylum, something she had no legal right to do, and she ordered police to harass me to try and drive me out of the country.

The German people, of ALL PEOPLE, know and understand that when a national leader orders that those who are exposing their crimes are to be thrown in jail as political prisoners, they must not allow that to happen. But the German people would not even help me with so much as the price of a cup of coffee.

Given the criminal political persecution I was subject to in Germany?

The German people are getting exactly what they deserve. They really are.

felineophile's avatar

A revealing experience that none of us should have to go through. No freedom of speech or press in that country.

Peter Andrew Nolan's avatar

Yes, unlawfully jailing whistle blowers as political prisoners makes it very clear that there are criminals in government. And if the people do not support those of us willing to do jail time like that? Then the people deserve everything that happens to them.

Al Bundy's avatar

Germany must fight againt american planned destruction if the European economy. Get back to buying energy from Russia and forget the stupid ambition with Ukraine. That war is already lost, but the economy can be still revived.