As Alternative für Deutschland approach 40% support in East Germany, a right-leaning CDU faction announce plans to break away from the Union and found a new party that will cooperate with AfD
As Alternative für Deutschland approach 40% support in East Germany, a right-leaning CDU faction announce plans to break away from the Union and found a new party that will cooperate with AfD
In September, three East German states – Saxony, Thüringen and Brandenburg – will hold elections for state parliament. Alternative für Deutschland are now by far the strongest-polling party in each of these states. In Saxony, for example, they are polling at an all-time high of 37%
Viewing German politics with interest, and only a vague understanding from here in the US, am I the only one who envies the apparent nimbleness of this multiple-party system in adapting to changing circumstances? Our American system is so ossified (intentionally so by the two major parties) as to be frustratingly impervious to independent thought and third parties.
I mean, I know parliamentary systems aren't perfect, but they sure seem better than what we've got over here at the moment. But I don't know if that's a function of the systems themselves, or the fact that the US is so much larger than any European countries. Then of course we have the complication of being a republic.
Wrt. Hans-Georg Maaßen, readers not familiar with Germany might not know that the orwellian-sounding Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is the domestic spy agency. Just saying...
The tension of trying to hang on to conservative voters whilst cozying up to the left in order to avoid associating eth the right is not survivable.
Fascinating to see how these dynamics play out in a continental state, with multiple parties and a far more dynamic factionalism. Compare to the US, where the same thing is happening within the big tents of R and D, but without rupturing the skin of the tents.
Could it be we are seeing the beginning of an Anti-Globalist Awakening? I love reading your posts from the other side of the pond. I live in Michigan. We're all being pushed by a Globalist Agenda: Open Borders, Green New Deal, Electric Cars, CBDCs, WHO Pandemic Treaty. No one want any of this bullshit. And in 2026 all US cars will have to have a "kill switch" allowing your car to be instantly turned off. And last week the US had the largest Illegal Alien Invasion in US history. Could it be we are all about to say the obvious. Enough!
Please share widely. When you buy a new car, in 2026, it will come with a mandatory "kill switch" which will allow the government to remotely disable your car. You can thank Debbie Dingell, most of the Democrat party and 19 Republicans for that. If it is not yet obvious the government wants to control every aspect of your life.
Like most Democrats Debbie Dingell is a globalist "true believer," who blindly supports the WHO, the UN and most of the policies contained within Agenda21 and Agenda 2030. Sadly many of the Republicans are also globalist "true believers," as I will disclose in this essay. The reason most Americans are unaware of this reality is because Globalist Corporate Media (MSNBC, CNN, FOX etc.) rarely talk directly about globalism or the many interlinked planks of the globalist agenda. Instead they maintain this false dichotomy that most issues divide between conservative and progressive ideologies.
Representative Debbie Dingell: Globalist Witch from the North
The commenterati have so far failed to notice, or don't want to say, that whatever the implications for the CDU and AfD vote, this essentially destroys the CSU as an independent party. Their only options now are to merge with the CDU fully, or go national, further complicating things.
I was told by a German, familiar with AfD from its inception, that infiltrators have managed to eject the key founders & taken over. The effect of this is that AfD is no longer what it is widely perceived to be.
Stereotypically, naivety is not the first word that would come to one´s mind to describe the long-serving head of a German secret service. And yet I can´t find a better expression for Mr. Maaßen. His criticism of the chancelleress would perhaps be more persuasive if he hadn´t served her for six years, including three years after the summer of 2015. Calling our rulers "ecosocialists" or "neosocialists" is a take so boomerish that I am at a loss for words. Just today he called the AfD a left party because... wait for it.... socialism. Und nun sage ich kein Wort mehr.
My parents are 80 years-old and diehard Democrats out here in California. I love to call my dad a Mercedes Commie, because he lives in a 4000 sf house, owns classic cars and motorcycles, yet keeps voting for the Democrats because "They care about us working people and the poor."
However, recently, my dad seems to be undergoing some sort of epiphany as prices spiral out of control, even admitting the Ukraine funding was a horrible idea and that California is on the wrong track with our "green energy " policies, which seem planned to create blackouts.
When Germany starts doing rolling blackouts because of your de-industrialization, I'm pretty sure your parents will flee the CDU. Hopefully, enough people will wake up,l before it is too late for Germany, because the US is gone.
A quote that I think is highly pertinent here is the following from Mark Steyn: "If respectable politicians are forbidden to raise certain subjects, the voters will turn to unrespectable ones."
Not that AfD are unrespectable, just Afuggalu, at least in the view of "respectable" politicians.
The German electorate has a lot of hang-ups due to history, but the number of migrant rapes, murders and terrorist atrocities will continue to grow until, when every German's daughter has been raped by a Syrian, voter psychology will move sharply rightward. It will take another couple of years.
As a casual observer from afar, the parliamentary system of government looks like herding cats.
I'm not to distressed when our legislative body gets nothing done, it's when they actually agree to accomplish something that I worry. It never seems to make my life better.
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I'm surprised there's not a populist movement in Germany. Am I missing something?
I like learning about European politics.
That's one of the things I enjoy about your stack and comments from your subscribers....being an "ugly" American and all....lol.
Viewing German politics with interest, and only a vague understanding from here in the US, am I the only one who envies the apparent nimbleness of this multiple-party system in adapting to changing circumstances? Our American system is so ossified (intentionally so by the two major parties) as to be frustratingly impervious to independent thought and third parties.
I mean, I know parliamentary systems aren't perfect, but they sure seem better than what we've got over here at the moment. But I don't know if that's a function of the systems themselves, or the fact that the US is so much larger than any European countries. Then of course we have the complication of being a republic.
Wrt. Hans-Georg Maaßen, readers not familiar with Germany might not know that the orwellian-sounding Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is the domestic spy agency. Just saying...
It’s impossible to ignore the will of the people forever.
The tension of trying to hang on to conservative voters whilst cozying up to the left in order to avoid associating eth the right is not survivable.
Fascinating to see how these dynamics play out in a continental state, with multiple parties and a far more dynamic factionalism. Compare to the US, where the same thing is happening within the big tents of R and D, but without rupturing the skin of the tents.
Shock horror? Are we seeing signs of democracy in Germany?!
Quickly, get some court to kick Maaßen and WerteUnion off the ballots!
Could it be we are seeing the beginning of an Anti-Globalist Awakening? I love reading your posts from the other side of the pond. I live in Michigan. We're all being pushed by a Globalist Agenda: Open Borders, Green New Deal, Electric Cars, CBDCs, WHO Pandemic Treaty. No one want any of this bullshit. And in 2026 all US cars will have to have a "kill switch" allowing your car to be instantly turned off. And last week the US had the largest Illegal Alien Invasion in US history. Could it be we are all about to say the obvious. Enough!
Please share widely. When you buy a new car, in 2026, it will come with a mandatory "kill switch" which will allow the government to remotely disable your car. You can thank Debbie Dingell, most of the Democrat party and 19 Republicans for that. If it is not yet obvious the government wants to control every aspect of your life.
Like most Democrats Debbie Dingell is a globalist "true believer," who blindly supports the WHO, the UN and most of the policies contained within Agenda21 and Agenda 2030. Sadly many of the Republicans are also globalist "true believers," as I will disclose in this essay. The reason most Americans are unaware of this reality is because Globalist Corporate Media (MSNBC, CNN, FOX etc.) rarely talk directly about globalism or the many interlinked planks of the globalist agenda. Instead they maintain this false dichotomy that most issues divide between conservative and progressive ideologies.
Representative Debbie Dingell: Globalist Witch from the North
BRUCE CAIN, DEC 30, 2023
https://brucecain.substack.com/p/representative-debbie-dingell-globalist
The commenterati have so far failed to notice, or don't want to say, that whatever the implications for the CDU and AfD vote, this essentially destroys the CSU as an independent party. Their only options now are to merge with the CDU fully, or go national, further complicating things.
I was told by a German, familiar with AfD from its inception, that infiltrators have managed to eject the key founders & taken over. The effect of this is that AfD is no longer what it is widely perceived to be.
Stereotypically, naivety is not the first word that would come to one´s mind to describe the long-serving head of a German secret service. And yet I can´t find a better expression for Mr. Maaßen. His criticism of the chancelleress would perhaps be more persuasive if he hadn´t served her for six years, including three years after the summer of 2015. Calling our rulers "ecosocialists" or "neosocialists" is a take so boomerish that I am at a loss for words. Just today he called the AfD a left party because... wait for it.... socialism. Und nun sage ich kein Wort mehr.
My parents are 80 years-old and diehard Democrats out here in California. I love to call my dad a Mercedes Commie, because he lives in a 4000 sf house, owns classic cars and motorcycles, yet keeps voting for the Democrats because "They care about us working people and the poor."
However, recently, my dad seems to be undergoing some sort of epiphany as prices spiral out of control, even admitting the Ukraine funding was a horrible idea and that California is on the wrong track with our "green energy " policies, which seem planned to create blackouts.
When Germany starts doing rolling blackouts because of your de-industrialization, I'm pretty sure your parents will flee the CDU. Hopefully, enough people will wake up,l before it is too late for Germany, because the US is gone.
On one hand I cant see how they will be allowed to win. On the other hand, they have to win. They have to.
A quote that I think is highly pertinent here is the following from Mark Steyn: "If respectable politicians are forbidden to raise certain subjects, the voters will turn to unrespectable ones."
Not that AfD are unrespectable, just Afuggalu, at least in the view of "respectable" politicians.
Typo near the end of footnote 1.
The German electorate has a lot of hang-ups due to history, but the number of migrant rapes, murders and terrorist atrocities will continue to grow until, when every German's daughter has been raped by a Syrian, voter psychology will move sharply rightward. It will take another couple of years.
As a casual observer from afar, the parliamentary system of government looks like herding cats.
I'm not to distressed when our legislative body gets nothing done, it's when they actually agree to accomplish something that I worry. It never seems to make my life better.