You can tell who has never built anything by how casually they speak about destroying things. If that happens long enough even "sane" people become oblivious to the destruction surrounding them.
But don't give up hope yet.
What we're seeing in the US is the power of the left in America draining away before our eyes. It was always a mile wide and an inch deep. More illusion than reality.
Like Carney, Starmer, Albanese, Sanchez and the prize clown Macron - Merz is just another globalist-appointed puppet whose job it is to run his country into the ground.
The blue-collar class are to be stripped of their jobs, communities and values, whilst the white-collar classes are to be stripped of their capital and property…….
………..nation states are to be uniformly constructed as digital prisons: money, food, water, energy and freedoms will be rationed…….later even the number of years that can be lived.
Destroying the working and middle classes, and putting us in digital prisons seem to be the plan, but I can't imagine it ever being realized. Too many people have been made suspicious by the globalists' Covid test-run, and too few have been stripped of their values. It's going to be a struggle, but the digital universe seems too fragile and too easily hacked to become a prison. But your scenario does make me want to re-watch The Matrix.
Merz is "what happens when you mimeograph overmuch the last century’s tired political styles." What a pithy and brilliant description. Banality in politics can linger for a long time, but not forever.
I was in Germany, primarily Bavaria, last fall. The sense of decay and world weariness was astounding to me, not having been there since 2006. Truly saddening.
Im going to say it until I'm blue in the face. The problem is WEAK men.
We are where we are in this world because men are either incapable of or refuse to be strong. Merz embodies this.
History teaches it with merciless clarity:
Peoples who obey out of fear lose not only their rights. but also their character. They become shadows of themselves. willing accomplices in their own downfall. Those who bow today out of fear will discover tomorrow that tge chains they themselves helped to carry can no longer be cast off.
Only when their own hardship finally reaches them, when the abstract warnings have turned into bitter, tangible reality, will they understand that they themselves, through their long silence, through their cowardice in the face of the truth and their willingness to be deceived, have enabled the downfall.
It's still difficult to comprehend for an outsider how Germany could have transitioned from a sensible, disciplined, efficient and successful economy into what it has become now?
From an impartial outside perspective, Germany appears to have committed social and economic suicide in the name of some ill-defined progressive unicorn dream and also appears to be unable to recognize the obvious indications that it hasn't worked.
Even with the excellent inside insights of Eugyppius, I'm still unable to understand how this could have happened.
BUT, I'm not a believer in coincidences and I don't believe this is accidental. The fingerprints of the Globalist "elites" and the push towards the glorious NWO can be seen all over this, as in most Western "democracies".
Yeah, I can't figure it out either. After so many years visiting Germany, and time and again seeing their practicality and efficiency, and their non-existent tolerance for nonsense, I can't understand how they swept it all aside for these virtuous climate and immigration policies. That said, they certainly have proved they could do it better than any of their neighbors—the self-destruction, that is.
Precisely because it’s so bizarre to understand this national collective suicide, doesn’t it seem more plausible that Germany was murdered by its own Atlanticist-globalist, US-indoctrinated, USAID-funded elites? They are all wannabe Bidenistas in exile.
Precisely because it’s so bizarre to understand this national collective suicide, doesn’t it seem more plausible that Germany was murdered by its own Atlanticist-globalist, US-indoctrinated, USAID-funded elites? They are all wannabe Bidenistas in exile.
Regarding the comment on Germans wanting to prove how determined they can be in persevering with their goals against all odds, it reminds me of my sister telling me my strengths were my weaknesses, which I naturally didn't agree with, but in this case I can see how it can be true.
This is why figures like Trump are politically necessary.
Merz’s problem, at root, is that he cannot take the heat. By all appearances he has a fairly clear idea of what needs to be done, but the very moment someone pushed back against his first, ever so tentative steps in that direction, he folded like a cheap shirt. He cares more about being seen as respectable than he does about the future of his nation and the responsibilities of his office.
Trump’s defining characteristic is that he doesn’t care even a little about respectable opinion. This frees him to do things the political class considers scandalous but are broadly popular in the electorate. Germany needs its own Trump, but got a Merz instead.
Germany’s political system unfortunately does not facilitate the emergence of anti-establishment politicians. The price of that has been the establishment of what may be the Western world’s most deeply entrenched, and therefore wildly incompetent, political cartel.
"Merz’s problem, at root, is that he cannot take the heat. By all appearances he has a fairly clear idea of what needs to be done, but the very moment someone pushed back against his first, ever so tentative steps in that direction, he folded like a cheap shirt. He cares more about being seen as respectable than he does about the future of his nation and the responsibilities of his office."
This is the gist of it, 100%. Can't tolerate being seen as mean or bad, whereas Trump revels in it.
Both are absolutely true. What real every day citizens want is the truth, courage of conviction, and the ability to execute. To an extent and not too many people remember but that’s how Jesse Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota decades ago. (Compare him to the nitwit in office now). At one time citizens of Minnesota actually voted sensibly before having their electorate compromised by unfettered migration and feminization of the male.
This is all about the power of the left to enforce their world view and pressure others into using their language.
Chris Bray writes about this often regarding california republicans. If you allow the insane to set the terms of debate, to define the language and the allowable words and ideas, the debate is over before it starts.
Large portions of the electorate choosing suicidal paths solely to feel virtuous in opposing the "other" political party? Where have I seen this before?
I fear Britain would give Germany a run for its money. Unfortunately like the rest of the Anglosphere we have the obsession with DEI on top of bad policies. This is driving a seemingly irreversible demographic shift that is amplified by our ruling class demolishing our history, heritage and culture.
Why would a reincarnated GDR be less dogmatic? I think it would be worse, precisely because the leftgreens won't identify themselves with the authoritarian socialism of that country. Up to and including the need for an exit visa even for visits (though those may be technically easier than in the GDR where you needed status, connections, or were a pensioner or schoolkid). The leftists repeatedly float making emigration of people with capital harder and more expensive, why not expand that?
You can tell who has never built anything by how casually they speak about destroying things. If that happens long enough even "sane" people become oblivious to the destruction surrounding them.
But don't give up hope yet.
What we're seeing in the US is the power of the left in America draining away before our eyes. It was always a mile wide and an inch deep. More illusion than reality.
Your last sentence is bang on. Never give up hope.
Like Carney, Starmer, Albanese, Sanchez and the prize clown Macron - Merz is just another globalist-appointed puppet whose job it is to run his country into the ground.
The blue-collar class are to be stripped of their jobs, communities and values, whilst the white-collar classes are to be stripped of their capital and property…….
………..nation states are to be uniformly constructed as digital prisons: money, food, water, energy and freedoms will be rationed…….later even the number of years that can be lived.
Merz is the German facilitator.
6% of Dutch deaths are by assisted dying already!
Destroying the working and middle classes, and putting us in digital prisons seem to be the plan, but I can't imagine it ever being realized. Too many people have been made suspicious by the globalists' Covid test-run, and too few have been stripped of their values. It's going to be a struggle, but the digital universe seems too fragile and too easily hacked to become a prison. But your scenario does make me want to re-watch The Matrix.
Merz is "what happens when you mimeograph overmuch the last century’s tired political styles." What a pithy and brilliant description. Banality in politics can linger for a long time, but not forever.
Apart from the classic German aversion to debt. That got left off the mimeograph somehow.
And, I hear the trains don't even run on time anymore.
In the immortal words of Pogo (Walt Kelly): “We have me the enemy and he is us!”
I was in Germany, primarily Bavaria, last fall. The sense of decay and world weariness was astounding to me, not having been there since 2006. Truly saddening.
Im going to say it until I'm blue in the face. The problem is WEAK men.
We are where we are in this world because men are either incapable of or refuse to be strong. Merz embodies this.
History teaches it with merciless clarity:
Peoples who obey out of fear lose not only their rights. but also their character. They become shadows of themselves. willing accomplices in their own downfall. Those who bow today out of fear will discover tomorrow that tge chains they themselves helped to carry can no longer be cast off.
Only when their own hardship finally reaches them, when the abstract warnings have turned into bitter, tangible reality, will they understand that they themselves, through their long silence, through their cowardice in the face of the truth and their willingness to be deceived, have enabled the downfall.
It's still difficult to comprehend for an outsider how Germany could have transitioned from a sensible, disciplined, efficient and successful economy into what it has become now?
From an impartial outside perspective, Germany appears to have committed social and economic suicide in the name of some ill-defined progressive unicorn dream and also appears to be unable to recognize the obvious indications that it hasn't worked.
Even with the excellent inside insights of Eugyppius, I'm still unable to understand how this could have happened.
BUT, I'm not a believer in coincidences and I don't believe this is accidental. The fingerprints of the Globalist "elites" and the push towards the glorious NWO can be seen all over this, as in most Western "democracies".
Yeah, I can't figure it out either. After so many years visiting Germany, and time and again seeing their practicality and efficiency, and their non-existent tolerance for nonsense, I can't understand how they swept it all aside for these virtuous climate and immigration policies. That said, they certainly have proved they could do it better than any of their neighbors—the self-destruction, that is.
Precisely because it’s so bizarre to understand this national collective suicide, doesn’t it seem more plausible that Germany was murdered by its own Atlanticist-globalist, US-indoctrinated, USAID-funded elites? They are all wannabe Bidenistas in exile.
Precisely because it’s so bizarre to understand this national collective suicide, doesn’t it seem more plausible that Germany was murdered by its own Atlanticist-globalist, US-indoctrinated, USAID-funded elites? They are all wannabe Bidenistas in exile.
Regarding the comment on Germans wanting to prove how determined they can be in persevering with their goals against all odds, it reminds me of my sister telling me my strengths were my weaknesses, which I naturally didn't agree with, but in this case I can see how it can be true.
This is why figures like Trump are politically necessary.
Merz’s problem, at root, is that he cannot take the heat. By all appearances he has a fairly clear idea of what needs to be done, but the very moment someone pushed back against his first, ever so tentative steps in that direction, he folded like a cheap shirt. He cares more about being seen as respectable than he does about the future of his nation and the responsibilities of his office.
Trump’s defining characteristic is that he doesn’t care even a little about respectable opinion. This frees him to do things the political class considers scandalous but are broadly popular in the electorate. Germany needs its own Trump, but got a Merz instead.
Germany’s political system unfortunately does not facilitate the emergence of anti-establishment politicians. The price of that has been the establishment of what may be the Western world’s most deeply entrenched, and therefore wildly incompetent, political cartel.
"Merz’s problem, at root, is that he cannot take the heat. By all appearances he has a fairly clear idea of what needs to be done, but the very moment someone pushed back against his first, ever so tentative steps in that direction, he folded like a cheap shirt. He cares more about being seen as respectable than he does about the future of his nation and the responsibilities of his office."
This is the gist of it, 100%. Can't tolerate being seen as mean or bad, whereas Trump revels in it.
Both are absolutely true. What real every day citizens want is the truth, courage of conviction, and the ability to execute. To an extent and not too many people remember but that’s how Jesse Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota decades ago. (Compare him to the nitwit in office now). At one time citizens of Minnesota actually voted sensibly before having their electorate compromised by unfettered migration and feminization of the male.
This is all about the power of the left to enforce their world view and pressure others into using their language.
Chris Bray writes about this often regarding california republicans. If you allow the insane to set the terms of debate, to define the language and the allowable words and ideas, the debate is over before it starts.
Re: MN. Don't forget election fraud.
You're absolutely right.
Basically, in today's world, what it takes is the ability to endure being called a raaaaaaacist devoid of empathy.
My empathy grows weaker by the day, while increasing my intolerance of stupidity and willful ignorance. It’s a good thing I stay mostly to myself.
https://x.com/AugNudl24000/status/2050207228284526993
Well now, he is serious!
That post could get you prosecuted in today’s Germany…,
yikes. Prison life is not for me. 😬
Yes, history's tragedies are so often about men missing their moment. For almost everyone, in general, it only comes once.
If only fumbling a plate of cake was his biggest problem …
I LOVE THIS WRITING: 'mimeograph overmuch the last century’s tired political styles'.
Large portions of the electorate choosing suicidal paths solely to feel virtuous in opposing the "other" political party? Where have I seen this before?
I fear Britain would give Germany a run for its money. Unfortunately like the rest of the Anglosphere we have the obsession with DEI on top of bad policies. This is driving a seemingly irreversible demographic shift that is amplified by our ruling class demolishing our history, heritage and culture.
Why would a reincarnated GDR be less dogmatic? I think it would be worse, precisely because the leftgreens won't identify themselves with the authoritarian socialism of that country. Up to and including the need for an exit visa even for visits (though those may be technically easier than in the GDR where you needed status, connections, or were a pensioner or schoolkid). The leftists repeatedly float making emigration of people with capital harder and more expensive, why not expand that?
“It is in our ethnic character to do everything longer, harder and in more determined suicidal fashion than everybody else.” Would agree, but Canada😖
Anyway, condolences.