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Spengler: Lesson from the German elections
[PJMedia] The implosion of Germany's Social Democratic Party in today's national elections is the big news from Berlin. With just 20.5% of the vote, a party that governed Germany intermittently since the Second World War has dropped off the political radar. SPD leader Martin Schulz distinguished himself from Chancellor Angela Merkel with one idea, namely fairer income distribution, and the voters shunned him. Merkel will take a fourth term as Federal Chancellor, almost certainly in a coalition with the small free-enterprise party, the Free Democrats, and the Green Party--a so-called "Jamaica Coalition" after the colors of the island's flag (Black for the Christian Democrats, Yellow for Free Democrats, and Green)....All the respectable parties banded together to defend Merkel's "we-can-do-it" open door policy to Middle Eastern migrants, a million and a half of whom turned up on Germany's doorstep during the past year and a half. The whole exercise was a scam and a goof, undertaken as an exercise in collective do-gooding in a country that still hates itself for its crimes duringi the Hitler period. Tuvia Tenenbom exposed the fecklessness of it all in a recent book that I reviewed in this space Sept. 10. Germans who objected to the influx and its attendant social pathologies voted for the AfD to register a protest, knowing that the AfD had no chance to exercise power. The German Establishment will take note. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-09-25 |
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