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| Europe |
| The Enigma of Germany |
| 2016-01-22 |
| h/t Instapundit What to fear in Germany -- an ideologically driven leader who unilaterally is changing the demographics of the nation without public support, or an angry populist counter-movement that vows to keep Germans safe by any means necessary when the government won't? Both, or neither? Is Germany postmodern in erasing borders, or premodern in bullying its neighbors to do the same? Does the world want Germans to stand up, reassert their pride in Western liberality and tolerance, and insist that migrants either integrate and follow Western values or go back home and stay there? Or does it want Germans to more or less continue to repress any expressions of cultural confidence? To even the least-informed observer, German chancellor Angela Merkel's recent decision to allow tens of thousands of young Muslim migrants -- about two-thirds of them young men -- into Germany from the war-torn and terrorist-infested Middle East seemed unhinged. Over a million migrants entered Germany in 2015 alone, the vast majority of them young, male, Muslim, from the Middle East. They were not refugees by any classical definition. Apparently Merkel in particular, and Germans in general, must assert that they are the most recklessly postmodern of all Western nations in order to reassure the world, 77 years after the outbreak of World War II, that they are no longer the most recklessly nationalistic. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #8 1) Dieter and Greta don't have any children, statistically speaking 2) ... kind of makes you feel better about the Mexicans, doesn't it? |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2016-01-22 21:03 |
| #7 Poor Germans, the idea that there is a middle ground between Nazism and suicidal liberalism just doesn't occur to them. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-01-22 14:28 |
| #6 P2K, I think that is the best idea I've heard in a long, long time! |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-01-22 11:58 |
| #5 Dieter and Greta may have second thoughts when bits of their children turn up in the schnitzel. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-01-22 09:10 |
| #4 ^ yes. We could help Germany by providing those tens of thousands (hey, millions) of younger workers today who speak a European language, are Christian, and love |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-01-22 09:09 |
| #3 It's foolishness. Merkel thinks that importing all these refugees will help the German welfare state by providing new millions of younger workers who will support the system. She fails to ask this question: assuming Muhammed could actually get a productive job in the German economy, why would he and Fatima want to work to support the retirement of Dieter and Greta? Immigrants who lack skills and who refuse to assimilate into the new state won't uphold any part of the core social welfare. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2016-01-22 08:55 |
| #2 Germany needed low cost nannies and house cleaners. In the USA, these come from central America. Germany's choice of the ME is, ah, questionable. |
| Posted by: Sven the pelter 2016-01-22 08:48 |
| #1 An unorthodox theocratic communist assumed leadership of Germany's mainstream center right party under false pretenses. Think of something like Maggie Thatcher implementing the "Longest Suicide Note in History" after winning in 1983, after having revealed to the world that 'she' has been Michael Foot in drag all along. The German political establishment is shocked and paralyzed. To put this in perspective: In the 2013 election a majority voted center right. Since 2015 100% of parliament nominally supports policies earlier identified with the extreme left exclusively. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2016-01-22 06:48 |