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Every country, I suspect, has its classic films that you watch on special holidays. In Germany, one of them is Dinner for One, shown on New Year’s Eve.
The performance by British comedians Freddie Frinton and May Warden about Miss Sophie and her butler James celebrating Sophie’s birthday the same way it has been celebrated for decades (with James reenacting the guests who have since passed away) gifted us with the famous quote: “Same procedure as every year.”
How true. Last Sunday, Germany voted for a new government, which in effect turned out to be a vote for the old government. The eternal government. As expected, the so-called conservatives won, the CDU or Christian Democrats (Merkel’s party), who, these days, are neither Christians nor democrats and are conserving nothing except the status quo.
I have watched this pattern all my life. People are dissatisfied with the politics of the Social Democrats (SPD, current Chancellor Scholz’s party), so they are voting in the CDU. Four years later, they are dissatisfied with CDU politics, so they vote in the SPD. Rinse and repeat. I really, really hate that overused definition of insanity – you know, repeating the same thing over and over and expecting different results. But it’s fitting in this case. Apparently, a large portion of the German voters suffers from insanity and therefore cannot see that if you continue to vote for the same thing, you get the same results.
So now they are in talks for a “great coalition”, meaning the CDU and SPD forming the government. (“Great” because traditionally, those were the two biggest parties in Germany.) Same procedure as every year. Every time we’ve had a great coalition, it’s “Never again!” Because the two parties cannot agree on anything, so nothing gets done. And so the great coalition talk is off the table for a term, and then the numbers work perfectly in their favor, and we get another great coalition. Rinse and repeat.
Emil Cosman put it so succinctly: No, the conservatives didn’t win; the globalists did. He is correct.
Curiously, Sahra Wagenknecht, whose party (BSW, Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht) didn’t break the “five percent hurdle” that would have allowed them into the Bundestag, is alleging voter fraud. Well, apparently, there were cases of mail-in ballots for the AfD (coming in second place after the CDU) being destroyed, but I don’t think anyone bothered with the BSW. Its potential voters simply went either to the AfD or Die Linke, the leftist party. Sore loser is the most likely explanation.
So we’re stuck with the same politics for another four years. No, future Chancellor Merz, his party, and their great coalition won’t deport immigrants in any meaningful numbers, no matter their pre-election promises. Maybe they’ll do a bit for the economy, but I doubt it. Maybe they’ll accomplish what’s been the most important item on the agenda of every “democratic” party for months now: banning the AfD.
The only positive bit of news is that our megalomaniac Minister of Economy, the Green Party’s Robert Habeck, will resign. Finally. He has been acting increasingly erratic for a while now and was seemingly on the verge of a nervous breakdown. So maybe now he’ll get back to writing children’s stories.
I had a bit of a debate with two of my colleagues last week. There was me, the AfD voter; one colleague who votes Linke; and another colleague who had decided that the world was getting too crazy for him, so he would vote for the party his father had always voted for, namely the SPD. Mind you, he is also the one who thinks Angela Merkel did a fine job. I’m afraid he is the embodiment of too many German voters who live by Konrad Adenauer’s creed, “no experiments”. Yeah.
“Same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie?”
“Same procedure as every year, James.”
Miss Sophie is celebrating her 90th birthday the way she has always celebrated her birthday. Her four guests have passed away long ago, and all she has left is her aged butler who now has to stand in for her dear friends and who keeps tripping over the tiger’s head. I cannot help but think that there’s a parable in there somewhere.
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Do Germans allow themselves to get angry anymore? Perhaps I missed it, but they didn ‘t seem too bothered when America bombed their pipeline with Russia.
“Germans” is a bit unspecific. Of course there were many Germans who were angry, but not the ones making the decisions. It probably didn’t help that our chancellor was in on it, or at least had foreknowledge of it – or so it would appear. Allegedly.
It isn’t, but it is – the point, if I may put words in the mouth of the commenter to whom you responded, is that not enough Germans get angry enough about it to register politically or even in a vaguely important sense in the wider culture. And he or she is largely correct. I might not be German myself, but I am a near-native speaker of the language and have lived there for many years and still work there from time to time.
We can certainly agree on that. I get very frustrated by too many of my countrymen. There is a good quote from the far-right novel Rebellische Herzen (my translation):
“[…] The people have become so overfed, so decadent and degenerate. They put up with every kick and still say thank you; they let every random criminal attack and abuse them without defending themselves. I love this German people more than anything, but I suffer every day when I see what they have become. […] And when I see what this people has become, I ask myself whether it was worth the sacrifices. I would do anything for the German people of the wars of liberation, the Romantic era, of the trenches in the First World War or the people who conquered the whole of Europe in the Second. But for this current people, who wallow in the mud every day, I have nothing but contempt. And I’m beginning to think it’s not going to get any better.”
Well, I haven’t given up hope yet, but I do understand the sentiment.
Could you please translate the entire chapter for Counter-currents. It sounds very interesting.
My fondest wish is to live long enough to see Whites show their dark side and unleash the hidden animal. I’ve never understood racialist or ‘racist’ nationalists speaking of luv perhaps to curry favor with the enemy’s goofsquads. ‘It’s about luving our own people, not hating others.’ This is too much a saccharine and infirm approach in words hoping others don’t think less of us (they always do). The L-word is really a woman’s thing, and her center of gravity. A man is supposed to luv his wife, kids, and his hobbies until she reveals herself to be a succubus bitch post-divorce and his progeny becomes a disappointment. After all is gone a White man will always luv his passions and the dog. Fido is man’s best friend, not her as she often thinks.
A great comparison with Dinner for One, which I thought hilarious. And, of course, Freddie has to do a lot of impersonating, much like today’s politicians…
I know it’s very difficult, but the AfD, if it wants to succeed, needs reliable cadres (successful people with something to lose), but most importantly it needs its own media, youtubers, podcasters. People outside the mainstream and outside the multicultural NGOs and think tanks. It would be great if Germany had a big anti-immigration website like Breitbart news.
You’re wrong! CDU and SPD agree that democracy is wonderful, and it should be saved!
It would be hilarious to see if a coalition tries to “save democracy” from a party that:
Gained more than 20% of the votes even according to the official data.
Has received significantly more votes than one of the coalition’s parties.
The gridlock reminds of the Weimar Germany political crises. I hope that a strong leader emerges finally to save you.
The results are, actually, quite good. AfD almost doubled its seats. Wagenknecht served as a spoiler and did not manage to receive enough votes to be present in the Bundestag, but subtracted almost 5% from the kooks. (Frankly, I understand her claims in the light of announced figures.) FPD is not present at all. I think they promised to not support the vaccination and carbon taxes, and then went in the opposite direction? Good luck (elsewhere)!
I thought little green men’s party would not pass, but, unfortunately, idiots still exist. On the brighter side, there is a numeric measure of the amount of stupidity in Germany. 🙂
It would be fun to watch them while Trump continues his demolition job. Maybe, it’s even better that AfD has not gained the absolute majority yet – it’s clearly a turbulent time.
This should not be lost. Despite the disappointing outcome, it was inconceivable just a short time ago that the AfD could achieve such results, and they haven’t reached the ceiling yet. We’re all tired of waiting, but until the muck hits the oscillator, wait we shall. A small victory is not useless here.
“a numeric measure of the amount of stupidity in Germany” – I’m totally stealing that! 🙂
Yes, in a way, I am glad the AfD didn’t make it to the top. It’s like the recent US elections, isn’t it? For a time, the argument here on C-C was that it was preferable to have the inevitable collapse wear a brown face instead of a white one. In the same manner, I suspect, the Democrats didn’t put up too much of a fight because they prefer the inevitable collapse to wear a Republican and especially Trump’s face. I, personally, prefer the inevitable collapse to wear a mainstream party face instead of the AfD’s.
Still, it would have been nice if more Germans had woken up to some realities.
You’re welcome, Clarissa!
Seriously, what does their base expect? I can even understand voting for some of the big parties as a default option when they want to elect someone, but don’t know whom exactly. But the Greens have been a part of a coalition government, and the results speak for themselves. I heard that Turks who abandoned SPD vote for them. They may be reliable in that no matter the situation, but they are not enough to make the overall numbers. Others should have been living with Greta Thunberg all that time.
Generally, I think it’s a very good outcome. Germans appeared more docile. If I am correct, AfD first participated in the (regional) elections in 2016. I didn’t expect them to have more than 20% already! Very nice! I hope they get the backing of some industrialists who are not content with the current government eventually. Meanwhile, you can actively support them and become “a threat to democracy”, too! A lot of CDU/CSU voters can be persuaded, I think.
“Chancellor Merz” sounds particularly good. I already see him dubbed “Kanzler Schmerz”.
And the motto for the next elections should be:
“No pain, no gain.
Ohne Merz – keine Schmerz!”
Regarding the American elections, I’m suspicious that they went with particularly unlikeable comrade Harris. Like the Democrats wanted to lose. Nevertheless, it’s great to have Trump as the President. Even if they have something special in store for us, they’re not omnipotent.
And this time it’s different. The Western European countries are not in a good position in any way. Previously, BRD played the role of “the beacon of democracy”, but now there is the Ukraine, Gaza, Trump, Putin, AfD, inflation, deindustrialisation and God knows what. They can’t handle it all simultaneously.
What about the voter fraud? What people on the ground say? I saw some allegations, but didn’t dive deep into it.
So far, the fraud issue isn’t making big waves, but there are some rumblings, like the video kerdasi amaq linked, or Sahra Wagenknecht’s claims. We’ll see if anything comes of it. Personally, I don’t believe it happened in any meaningful numbers, because the election result largely matches the pre-election polls, but who knows?
I’m afraid Germans still need “mehr Schmerz mit Merz” in order to wake up. The funny thing is, some mainstream channel on YouTube (was it Welt?) had a headline yesterday that hinted at another round of snap elections – probably because of said voter fraud allegations. I didn’t watch the video, so I don’t know. But Merz has already broken two of his most important pre-election promises on Day 1, namely a restriction on immigration and keeping the Schuldenbremse – the “debt brake”, i.e. the inability of the government to create more than a specific amount of debt – intact. So if there suddenly were new snap elections, this might just bite him in the posterior.
Sounds more like weltschmerz. amerika’s donkey shit party is just power-craving in perpetua to decimate everything Whites hold dear but without any responsibility. Eating whatever you want to get the olympian figure. The elephant shit party believes in jockeying for who’s the goodest goyling for israel, like some insane auction bidding war to slavishly grovel to jews who couldn’t despise them more. Willingly doing the bullies’ homework and vile sexual favors for the pleasure of being castrated and stuffed into a locker. That’s ‘our’ politicians.
The CDU seems to be the most shameless example of conservative gatekeeping in the world. Actually, beyond shameless because they actively brag about it.
“I have watched this pattern all my life. People are dissatisfied with the politics of the SPD, so they vote in the CDU. Four years later, they are dissatisfied with CDU politics, so they vote in the SPD.”
I hear you, Clarissa. I have followed German politics on and off since my first year in Berlin in 1987, before the fall of the GDR. This is exactly the impression one gets. It is like Republicans vs. Democrats in the days before Trump “came down the escalator.” But he did come down that escalator in 2015 and nothing has been the same since. Will the cordon sanitaire really hold once the AfD gains another 10% support?
The Afd also worships Israel, just like the rest of the parties.
Come on – that’s virtually de rigueur in Germany. All that matter is which party is best on halting the invasion. Obviously, AfD.
All this back and forth—across any point of the mainstream media—in Germany, the U.S. or wherever, is just entertainment.
Politicians taking us for a long ride.
So how come Ha White Swiss Germans in Switzerland broker their cuckservative, no immigration restriction same old, same old and started a brand new party “The Swiss People’s Party” and this Party came from nothing to be the #1 ruling party in Switzerland?
Ha White German Swiss, ha White Italian Swiss, Ha White French Swiss all supported, support the Swiss People’s Party. And the immigration borders were/are pretty much closed.
I wouldn’t call it madness, but dementia. The West Boomers are voting for the spectrum they have been voting for all their lives and hope that it will be like the golden years of the FRG. You couldn’t expect more. But I find it astonishing that a party that has only been around for 12 years has become the second strongest party and has increased its share of the vote by 100% in just a few years. If you were realistic, you couldn’t really expect more.
I would simply say that since the change of power in the USA, a ban on the AFD is not an issue.
I wouldn’t be so quick to say that. Sure, Vance’s endorsement could perhaps slow down the process, but since the US government has made it very clear that Europe is on its own (which I don’t believe, as I wrote in my essay on Elon Musk) and since Trump and Musk are “literally Hitler” and/or the devil and since we have to save democracy, now that the USA has fallen – well, they might just double down on it.
The whining is still the same, of course, and nothing will change in the near future. But Scholz knew, just as Merz knows: Wer der Herr ist und wer der Knecht! They play a bit of sovereignty for the public, but a ban is practically no longer an issue for the time being. They even officially admit it. Not a chance.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/afd-verbot-antrag-100.html
Is this the evidence of voter fraud in Germany? It’s a video of someone shredding what appear to be AfD ballots.
https://www.brighteon.com/7e7c8079-87db-4cac-9370-cf515e53339f
Is there a possibility that the AfD would be part of the government if it weren’t pro-Russia? The pro-Ukraine Sweden Democrats are similarly vilified by their nation’s establishment parties but participate in the current government via a confidence and supply agreement.
I don’t think that is the main reason. The BSW is also pro-Russia but hasn’t been taking the same sort of abuse the AfD has.
Is there a non zero chance that this Merz fellow’s party can actually get another party banned? Why is he permitted to call them fascists and sundry other names yet feel no blowback? I would think a politician who is being projected to be chancellor, or whatever, could see how the wind is blowing and join forces and be empowered to make substantial changes. All they want is status quo. No Trump to stir the pot. Germans are far too intelligent to keep doing this over and over aren’t they? It’s great sport here now to watch the headlines on which department is on the chopping block. It’s too bad since we could be real allies.
In a normal society, that is what would happen. Sadly, Germany is not a normal society.
That being said, Merz was at least cautiously open to some sort of cooperation with the AfD – whether he really meant it or not. But the predictable instant blowback convinced him otherwise. And no, neither he himself nor his party can get the AfD banned on their own; but they can push for it. The Bundesverfassungsgericht (the constitutional court) that, in a normal society, would quickly come to the conclusion that the AfD is doing nothing unconstitutional (which would justify a ban), has unfortunately become politicized, and it’s anybody’s guess how it would rule.
A politicized court? Surely you jest? It’s all to preserve our democracy. Can’t have outsiders like Trump or AfD become the norm. I find it encouraging that both Trump and AfD are appealing to younger voters. This could be a long term strategy.
Given Trump’s age, in reference to a long-term strategy, any speculation as to who is a potential torch-bearer for Trumpism after he ages out of viability in the near future? I’ve heard a few analyists say it will be J.D. Vance, obviously, but he doesn’t seem to truly fit the role.
The modern Germany is little more than an occupied territory with the local puppet administration. It will never act differently than what it did for the last decades. The problem of absolute majority of mainstream people in all White countries is that they believe in “democracy”. They think that voting and empty talk matter and can bring real results. The great German chancellor Otto von Bismarck had clearly answered to those delusions. It is what all modern Germans must remeber:
Nicht durch Reden und Majoritätsbeschlüsse werden die großen Fragen der Zeit entschieden – das ist der große Fehler von 1848 und 1849 gewesen – sondern durch Eisen und Blut.
Merz has taken orders all his life, presumably. But Trump is the new Sherriff in town. If Trump and Musk pushed him to take AfD into government, would he be brave enough to resist?
If Trump and Musk are for real, they could just bully Merz into doing a Remigration deal with the AfD.
I suspect election rigging is quite common in Europe, on the rare occasions where there are honest people running. The fact that the results match the opinion polls could simply mean that the opinion polls were rigged as well as the election.
Even if only one AfD vote went missing, it should be treated as a big national scandal. Nie Wieder, usw.
Clarissa, I am curious about your SPD and Die Linke voting work colleagues. Do they actually support more immigration into Germany? What’s your estimate of the percentage of Germans who want immigration to continue?
The AfD want to disarm Europe and pull Germany out of Ukraine’s defense infrastructure while the Russians are terror bombing civilians with glide missiles and drones, something completely absent from the article but probably not absent from the minds of German voters. CC writers corresponding from pink pony planet where the Ukraine-Russia war doesn’t exist anymore. Go read a newspaper
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