It's funny, except it's not, how fear of populism has become profoundly anti-democratic. The elites want to save democracy even if they have to end democracy, but they absolutely don't want people to be allowed to vote for the party and the policies of their choice. The elites say this is to prevent fascism and fascist populist parties from winning, but fascism is whatever they say it is. The Democrat Party in America is doing somewhat the same thing, its just not quite as bad.
It was pretty bad under Biden . They raided a former President’s home . In NYC they created a case against him for fraud despite the statute of limitations having run out and no party was injured . In the mortgage fraud case Deutsch bank said they appraised the property , willing loaned Trump money , got paid back in full with interest . They said this at trial and a “ democratic “ jury found Trump ..GUILTY . The problem is guilty of what ??
And now the democrats complain hysterically about Trump's lawfare, about him seeking revenge against his enemies, etc. As you say, the lawfare against Trump was egregious. There was also the rape case. The woman who accused him of rape, in a department store dressing room ( according to her) 30 years ago, and she never went to the police or came forward until Trump was elected president!
Her whole case was bankrolled by one of the “Oligharcs” they claim to hate in Reid Hoffman. It would be laughable if it wasn’t so serious. Nobody is above the law they claim unless it’s them being prosecuted.
They've lied to us that politics is Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch and John McCain all cozy and having hearty steak dinners as they hash out together what's to be done to us.
If your goal isn't to utterly defeat the other party so it's unable to force its values on the entire country, you ain't got no real values about anything.
I also wondered how "populism", which one would think is kind of the definition of a democratic system, became a bad word. A guy named Thomas Frank has written multiple books about this. https://tcfrank.com/
As far as I can tell, they've associated it with demagoguery and coupled it with their contemptuous dismissal of the average man as an ignorant, easily-misled rube.
The Left became elitist, turning against the People, when the promised Revolution failed to materialize.
Yes. The only difference is that the word ‘populism’ comes from Latin, while the word ‘democracy’ comes from Greek. They are two words for the same thing.
When ‘populism’ is used in the current context, however, it actually means ‘democracy that is used to vote for stuff I don’t like’.
The Circulation of Elite. One of Vilfredo Pareto's sociological works that has similarities with Machiavelli's The Prince. Pareto being one of Benito Mussolini's major influences as he was a young man studying in Switzerland, taking Pareto's ideas and fashioning "the most perfect governing system ever devised" Fascism out of it.
It has been offered and presented many times, many ways by many others that attempts for a populace to take power from an elite ruling class requires the participation of and coalition with a number from that same elite ruling class. A complete reordering of society that excludes all elite has never and will never succeed in revolution. Whatever reforms and moments the people rising up and prevailing achieve have always been fleeting. Always. The 'elite' always find a way back in power, no matter what system prevails. Elite have no loyalty to any system, their loyalty is to their status. As Marxist Chomsky wrote, "you can be a senior corporate executive singing the praises of capitalism or a commissar singing the praises of communism" overnight, it's essentially the same position, the same status.
What eugyppius writes is probably the most likely outcome I agree with for this reason. If the CDU leadership can figure out how to retain their status in an AfD coalition they will. But that means they call the shots. They don't lose their elite posts in society, job, community, culture. As long as partnership with AfD comes with loss of status they will reject those they ostensibly share much more ideological values with.
So how does a populist movement lacking elite support gain power but not become coopted and transformed into what it opposes? I've given that some thought and am pointed in the direction of a distinction between a revolution and an evolution in governance. Revolutions revolve, circulate the same elite power constructs. Evolution evolves power constructs that aren't as prone to cooption. Governing model changes into something that isn't elite dominated, where status is automatically transferred to "the latest thing." Where merit prevails, not privilege.
Seeing as how that all seems so very pie in the sky, fanciful and difficult to imagine playing out as conceived the more likelihood is the current system is massaged by a CDU+AfD coalition, with CDU as the senior partner. Even though smaller in number, larger in ability to exercise real power by virtue of status. Doling out small victories to their AfD junior partner to claim success, without fundamental change that AfD supporters think needs to be made.
Circulation of Elite. The system is build on that cornerstone, understanding of human sociology. As much as we wish otherwise. Unless and until Evolution in self-governance is achieved.
They have redefined democracy, or rather redefined demos to include only Good People. Then they created the new word populism to denote what before had been called democracy.
Progressivism is 90% word magic. The other 10% is daddy issues.
I'm starting to think that Meister Eckhart has the answer to everything. Most modern medieval thinker in history. He said with great scorn that the peasant wants God to be tangible as his cow is in order to have true faith.
The mask made the virus tangible. The firewall against AfD is proof that the Devil exists and needs to be contained.
Glad for the optimism in your analysis. As we saw here in the US with Trump, the more you try to demonize that which is actually quite normal and desirable, the more a critical mass of people start thinking for themselves and act accordingly.
Yes . I would add however that the “ demonizers” have doubled down on the “ Trans “ issue . Despite their own Democrat party rejecting it . Independents rejecting it . And Republicans 95% rejecting it …they persist . I think the same will happen with the greens . They cannot be reasoned with and they will absolutely NOT admit defeat .
Well, to repeat yet again life's most grim truth--all cults are the same. All fanatics are equally crazy. All social movements are religions. All religions are cults...
I already posted this on X, so I beg your indulgence:
Sorry, but "if you forbid it, it will only make it more interesting" does not apply in this case. (Sadly, my German wife is infected with the RTL, ARD "mainstream media virus" Politics are tabu as well as questioning the narrative.)
Her son is in the police, and he is slowly coming around, but he has to keep his thoughts and opinions secret; otherwise…1984 anyone?
The AfD is the only party that, ironically, is representative of democracy, but the other parties want to ban. It listens to the will of the people, their concerns, and attempt to institute them in the policies of Government.
At the Landeswahl, I was confronted outside the REWE by a supporter at a table for the CDU. He asked me who I would vote for, and I told him that I could not vote, being an American. I informed him that if I could vote, I would vote AfD. He asked me why, and I replied, Because that is the only party that seems to support the interests of the German citizens.
When I asked him why his party, or any other party, appeared to have no interest in addressing the issues that make the AfD popular, he was like a deer in the headlights. No answer.
"Mass vaccination followed a nearly identical arc. At first the vaccinators said everyone had to be vaccinated to stop the virus, but by late Autumn 2021 they wanted to vaccinate everybody as much as possible because reasons."
eugyppius, something similar happened with the National Health Service in the UK, though over a longer time frame. It was originally sold as a way to improve access to healthcare, with the NHS acting (ostensibly) to protect the public. But during Covid, people were asked to mask up, isolate themselves at home, and take the experimental shots: now it was the public acting to protect the NHS.
I have little doubt but that it was a similar process that led the free men and women of late Western European antiquity to enter into servitude to feudal lords. Sold as a way to protect the people from random marauders, over time the feudal/manorial system became just another way to rob and control the populace.
Hopefully the populace learned from the first time around. I understand packaged convenience food in Britain now sometimes has a stamp on the film cover as to the daily carbon allotment of the contents. Paid that with mandatory digital ID. Where are we going here. 🤔
As a comparison, abandoning the firewall and allowing the Sweden Democrats to be coalition partners but without formal seats in the government has worked wonders for the old "seven-leaf clover" of political parties; the SD has stopped growing, only increasing or decreasing in the polls within the margin of error in polls.
This means the SD can be tossed the occasional political bone then and now, and meanwhile what non-narrative measures the governement wants to enforce it can do in peace and safety since media and pundidiots and anal-ysts will blame the SD for anything decreed Wrongthink, even if it's something that originated with the former Socialist Democrat/green/Communist governement, or even the extreme neoliberal Reinfeldt-Alliance of 2006-2014.
I don't know why Sweden didn't mimic Germany in this - possibly, it is because the SD has been the most pro-NATO, pro-Israel and pro-war-with-Russia-party and so continuing to shut them out would be too costly with regards to the various corporate capitalist backers of the right-side parties (though Kristersson, the current PN nicknamed "Milhouse" for obvious reasons if you see a photo of him, is a rainbow-weeping WEF-creature caricature of a man to eleven).
The danger for the AfD is the temptation to "moderate" to be accepted, which won't work to any other end than making them too slaves to the various forces struggling to rule behind the Potemkin-backdrop of "Our Democracy".
I don’t believe Scenario #2 is out the very real realm of possibility. When the Left gets desperate, which they most assuredly are now across the West, they behave like a cornered raccoon and they will lash out with violent determination against their perceived enemies. Add to that, they don’t fear the people or a backlash at all. They have been so ensconced in power for so long without the slightest consideration of what the people may actually want, it has become alien to their nature to even consider it. Their survival, by any means necessary, is all that matters, and damned be the consequences.
But the other elephant in the room is the seriously precarious state of the economies throughout Europe. That reality check is coming no matter what anyone wants, and may be what will determine not just Germany’s future, but the future of all of Europe as well, AfD or no AfD.
I think number 2 is also more likely than what we would like to admit. These are not intelligent people. They do not look at down stream consequences, they are very binary and locked into a view of only the present. And for them, power at any cost, is still a good play. I’m watching Democrat Jews support Mamdani in NYC, talk about self-immolation. It beggars belief.
Truly! Literally everything they’re doing -in a sane world - would be considered suicidal for a political party! And yet, they double-down, and here we are.
Endification is, in essence, the inability to ever admit a mistake has been made. I think this inability to admit a mistake more or less guarantees that AfD is banned at some point in the next year.
I think the "No Kings" protests in the US (and apparently around the world) have reached your "endification" point. No one can really say what they're about, even the most enthusiastic participants. Except for not wanting a king which America hasn't had for 250 years.
That particular endified movement is the anti-Trump movement, and it flared into existence in 2016. They're only message is "because Trump!".
A lot of my friends went to the No Kings protest yesterday. I suppose at some point the subject will come up and I'll try to point out that Biden was more authoritarian than Trump has been. They are particularly blind on this point.
Hard times create strong men that create good times. Good times create weak men that create hard times.
Germany and much of the West is living in a time of weak men (many of them are females now). The US has elected a strong man to attempt to stop the decline to hard times again, but it is dubious if he will succeed with all the elites against him for retaining their globalist greed. The problem for the Trump agenda is that the problems they are trying to solve have evolved over decades and fixing them requires breaking things that Democrats and low information voters will rebel against. Trump has a very difficult job explaining this need for the American public to sacrifice today for the greater good tomorrow... especially when the media is failing to report anything but flaming negative attacks on him. I give it 50/50.
From my perspective the problem with the West was that the post-war US-funded Global Order as initiated by the 1944 Bretton Woods Act should have ended 30-40 years ago. Germans as well as many other Europeans and Asians grew too fat dumb and happy with their high life of massive social spending as the US was paying to keep them from blowing each other up again. That "good times" period allowed the weak men and women to slime their way to administrative and money control... through looting, tent-seeking and gambling... certainly not from any productive outcomes or merit. These people dislike industrialization because they never had the right stuff to be industrialists... too much getting one's hand dirty and taking career risks... and those that do have the right stuff are their socioeconomic status competition... and thus they cannot have that again.
They demand that this old Global Order continue. It is why they would involve themselves in creating a fake dossier to try and take out Trump and plant a geriatric cognitively deficient puppet in the White House who by autopen fiat would perpetuate and increase US spending to protect the European dream while also enabling even more Western de-industrialization.
The difference between the US and other Western countries related to this populist uprising to beat down the liberaltard elites probably comes down to one single difference... the Constitutionally protected God-given right to free speech, expression and association. Germany does not have it and without it the people don't have enough populist power to defeat the tyrants in control.
It appears to me that the US is short-cutting the endification... attempting to correct the declining trajectory before it hits the end. The Democrats seem to be committed to taking it to the end so they can continue to extract more wealth from it and to hell with future generations impacted by the final implosion. That seems to be the same motivation of the EUtard elites in control of other European countries. The point about German culture being different is interesting to me... but I think the lack of citizen human rights protection explains at least part of it. Yes, the 2nd Amendment seems key too as without it the tyrants would trample on 1st Amendment rights.
I like this endification definition. It explains a lot. The Democrat party in the US is in the midst of it. They really have no policies, they are just a knee jerk reaction to all things Trump. Currently they try to enhance their powers by inviting boomers and the mentally ill to protest a King, even though that party wanted you to vote for a candidate that never received a single vote in the primary. Their own Queen, if you will. The older members of the Democrat Party are trying to appease the more radical left youngsters like AOC and Mamdani, only to get burned. AOC will likely run against Schumer and Mamdani refused to support Hochul.
I’m hoping we are also watching the endification of the pharmaceutical industry. As the covid vaccine has made many of us start looking into the efficacy of all vaccines and their side effects, in addition to food additives, the pushback has been apparent. RFK Jr remains one of the most highly polled members of the Trump administration. Naturally, the industry is doubling down on their past mistakes and fighting tooth and nail, instead of trying to give gracefully on some points. They want all cattle to be injected with MRNA and so forth. These systems are complex and deeply entrenched int heir viewpoints and presumably their cash inputs. It will be interesting to see where all of this will lead.
The EU has not existed for 80 years so clearly Germany could not have been a member of it for that long. Before Maastricht it was the EEC in the UK but critically its nature was different from what it became afterwards.
Endism is a useful term and concept. We had it here for decades in respect of the EEC/EU. Membership was supported by the old parties because, well because they did. At all costs they had to prevent UKIP andlater The Brexit Party from sowing doubs about it. If there was any recognised fault in the EU it had to be taken on the chin by the UK as a member State. This persists in much of the old parties and they would rejoin in an instant if it was politically possible.
The question of coalition will not arise here until after a general Election because the Conservatives are so weak no one would want to ally with them. After a GE a few individual Tories might support Reform in government if it needs them but the bulk of that party won't because they are much closer in opinions to the other (openly socialist) parties here.
I wonder if, when one larger western country topples its old regime, the habit will run like wildfire.
True - it was the change from the EEC to the EU with all that implies - remember the disaster that was the "Constitution for the EU" which e.g. Ireland rejected and was made to vote again to accept it? - which turned many of us into firm Leave supporters.
Indeed the EU27 Kommission mantra 'vote, but vote as we kommand' was the main issue. I do not think this has served any EU27 member state well, and the UK has the scars - as well as treasonous types like Mr Starmer kC.
For me, as well as you explain things, making any kind of sense regarding German politics and policies is mind numbing. How such a people have come to this sad pass is excruciatingly unbelievable…
It's funny, except it's not, how fear of populism has become profoundly anti-democratic. The elites want to save democracy even if they have to end democracy, but they absolutely don't want people to be allowed to vote for the party and the policies of their choice. The elites say this is to prevent fascism and fascist populist parties from winning, but fascism is whatever they say it is. The Democrat Party in America is doing somewhat the same thing, its just not quite as bad.
It was pretty bad under Biden . They raided a former President’s home . In NYC they created a case against him for fraud despite the statute of limitations having run out and no party was injured . In the mortgage fraud case Deutsch bank said they appraised the property , willing loaned Trump money , got paid back in full with interest . They said this at trial and a “ democratic “ jury found Trump ..GUILTY . The problem is guilty of what ??
Guilty of being Trump! Duh...
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And now the democrats complain hysterically about Trump's lawfare, about him seeking revenge against his enemies, etc. As you say, the lawfare against Trump was egregious. There was also the rape case. The woman who accused him of rape, in a department store dressing room ( according to her) 30 years ago, and she never went to the police or came forward until Trump was elected president!
And she couldn't remember what year it happened in. I'm not a woman but it seems like you'f probably remember what year you got raped
Her whole case was bankrolled by one of the “Oligharcs” they claim to hate in Reid Hoffman. It would be laughable if it wasn’t so serious. Nobody is above the law they claim unless it’s them being prosecuted.
She’s clearly a liar and rather nutty to boot.
Guilty of stating the truth
They've lied to us that politics is Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch and John McCain all cozy and having hearty steak dinners as they hash out together what's to be done to us.
If your goal isn't to utterly defeat the other party so it's unable to force its values on the entire country, you ain't got no real values about anything.
I also wondered how "populism", which one would think is kind of the definition of a democratic system, became a bad word. A guy named Thomas Frank has written multiple books about this. https://tcfrank.com/
I know, populism comes from the same root as " the people", its basically politics that people like! Thanks for link.
As far as I can tell, they've associated it with demagoguery and coupled it with their contemptuous dismissal of the average man as an ignorant, easily-misled rube.
The Left became elitist, turning against the People, when the promised Revolution failed to materialize.
If them peasants ain't stinking it's hard to claim they're unwashed.
"Populism" is literally democracy.
Yes. The only difference is that the word ‘populism’ comes from Latin, while the word ‘democracy’ comes from Greek. They are two words for the same thing.
When ‘populism’ is used in the current context, however, it actually means ‘democracy that is used to vote for stuff I don’t like’.
Oh, it’s just as bad over here, though perhaps not quite as obvious.
The Circulation of Elite. One of Vilfredo Pareto's sociological works that has similarities with Machiavelli's The Prince. Pareto being one of Benito Mussolini's major influences as he was a young man studying in Switzerland, taking Pareto's ideas and fashioning "the most perfect governing system ever devised" Fascism out of it.
It has been offered and presented many times, many ways by many others that attempts for a populace to take power from an elite ruling class requires the participation of and coalition with a number from that same elite ruling class. A complete reordering of society that excludes all elite has never and will never succeed in revolution. Whatever reforms and moments the people rising up and prevailing achieve have always been fleeting. Always. The 'elite' always find a way back in power, no matter what system prevails. Elite have no loyalty to any system, their loyalty is to their status. As Marxist Chomsky wrote, "you can be a senior corporate executive singing the praises of capitalism or a commissar singing the praises of communism" overnight, it's essentially the same position, the same status.
What eugyppius writes is probably the most likely outcome I agree with for this reason. If the CDU leadership can figure out how to retain their status in an AfD coalition they will. But that means they call the shots. They don't lose their elite posts in society, job, community, culture. As long as partnership with AfD comes with loss of status they will reject those they ostensibly share much more ideological values with.
So how does a populist movement lacking elite support gain power but not become coopted and transformed into what it opposes? I've given that some thought and am pointed in the direction of a distinction between a revolution and an evolution in governance. Revolutions revolve, circulate the same elite power constructs. Evolution evolves power constructs that aren't as prone to cooption. Governing model changes into something that isn't elite dominated, where status is automatically transferred to "the latest thing." Where merit prevails, not privilege.
Seeing as how that all seems so very pie in the sky, fanciful and difficult to imagine playing out as conceived the more likelihood is the current system is massaged by a CDU+AfD coalition, with CDU as the senior partner. Even though smaller in number, larger in ability to exercise real power by virtue of status. Doling out small victories to their AfD junior partner to claim success, without fundamental change that AfD supporters think needs to be made.
Circulation of Elite. The system is build on that cornerstone, understanding of human sociology. As much as we wish otherwise. Unless and until Evolution in self-governance is achieved.
It is just as bad with the exception that it's a two party system.
They have redefined democracy, or rather redefined demos to include only Good People. Then they created the new word populism to denote what before had been called democracy.
Progressivism is 90% word magic. The other 10% is daddy issues.
I'm starting to think that Meister Eckhart has the answer to everything. Most modern medieval thinker in history. He said with great scorn that the peasant wants God to be tangible as his cow is in order to have true faith.
The mask made the virus tangible. The firewall against AfD is proof that the Devil exists and needs to be contained.
Glad for the optimism in your analysis. As we saw here in the US with Trump, the more you try to demonize that which is actually quite normal and desirable, the more a critical mass of people start thinking for themselves and act accordingly.
Yes . I would add however that the “ demonizers” have doubled down on the “ Trans “ issue . Despite their own Democrat party rejecting it . Independents rejecting it . And Republicans 95% rejecting it …they persist . I think the same will happen with the greens . They cannot be reasoned with and they will absolutely NOT admit defeat .
They can persist all they want, but if their numbers keep shrinking, it won't do them a lot of good.
Well, to repeat yet again life's most grim truth--all cults are the same. All fanatics are equally crazy. All social movements are religions. All religions are cults...
I already posted this on X, so I beg your indulgence:
Sorry, but "if you forbid it, it will only make it more interesting" does not apply in this case. (Sadly, my German wife is infected with the RTL, ARD "mainstream media virus" Politics are tabu as well as questioning the narrative.)
Her son is in the police, and he is slowly coming around, but he has to keep his thoughts and opinions secret; otherwise…1984 anyone?
The AfD is the only party that, ironically, is representative of democracy, but the other parties want to ban. It listens to the will of the people, their concerns, and attempt to institute them in the policies of Government.
At the Landeswahl, I was confronted outside the REWE by a supporter at a table for the CDU. He asked me who I would vote for, and I told him that I could not vote, being an American. I informed him that if I could vote, I would vote AfD. He asked me why, and I replied, Because that is the only party that seems to support the interests of the German citizens.
When I asked him why his party, or any other party, appeared to have no interest in addressing the issues that make the AfD popular, he was like a deer in the headlights. No answer.
Germany is doomed.🤬🤬🤬🤬
"Mass vaccination followed a nearly identical arc. At first the vaccinators said everyone had to be vaccinated to stop the virus, but by late Autumn 2021 they wanted to vaccinate everybody as much as possible because reasons."
eugyppius, something similar happened with the National Health Service in the UK, though over a longer time frame. It was originally sold as a way to improve access to healthcare, with the NHS acting (ostensibly) to protect the public. But during Covid, people were asked to mask up, isolate themselves at home, and take the experimental shots: now it was the public acting to protect the NHS.
I have little doubt but that it was a similar process that led the free men and women of late Western European antiquity to enter into servitude to feudal lords. Sold as a way to protect the people from random marauders, over time the feudal/manorial system became just another way to rob and control the populace.
Hopefully the populace learned from the first time around. I understand packaged convenience food in Britain now sometimes has a stamp on the film cover as to the daily carbon allotment of the contents. Paid that with mandatory digital ID. Where are we going here. 🤔
That kind of pattern is human nature.
The woke left idiots will be in charge until western society is destroyed. It is not just a German problem.
Once the moslem mob takes over we are screwed, we can already see it in the UK and France.
We are quickly approaching a point of no return.
For a description of how this might come about, I highly recommend the recent novel "Submission" by Michel Houellebecq.
The Belgians, the French, and no doubt Houellebecq himself will be quite surprised to learn he is Belgian.
Sorry for the error. Fixed. Sarcasm was not necessary.
I saw it as gentle sarcasm.
It sure looks that way . Surely we would all agree that it cannot last another ten years
Interesting how the oligarchs and the elites are scared of anything that will upset the status quo and their power. Human nature never changes.
Like sands in the hourglass…..
These are the days of our lives.
Wow, *that* took me back... 🤣🤣🤣
'[Merz] ruled out cooperation with the AfD in any form – “at least not under me as party leader of the CDU.”'
The proper response to this: "Your terms are acceptable."
As a comparison, abandoning the firewall and allowing the Sweden Democrats to be coalition partners but without formal seats in the government has worked wonders for the old "seven-leaf clover" of political parties; the SD has stopped growing, only increasing or decreasing in the polls within the margin of error in polls.
This means the SD can be tossed the occasional political bone then and now, and meanwhile what non-narrative measures the governement wants to enforce it can do in peace and safety since media and pundidiots and anal-ysts will blame the SD for anything decreed Wrongthink, even if it's something that originated with the former Socialist Democrat/green/Communist governement, or even the extreme neoliberal Reinfeldt-Alliance of 2006-2014.
I don't know why Sweden didn't mimic Germany in this - possibly, it is because the SD has been the most pro-NATO, pro-Israel and pro-war-with-Russia-party and so continuing to shut them out would be too costly with regards to the various corporate capitalist backers of the right-side parties (though Kristersson, the current PN nicknamed "Milhouse" for obvious reasons if you see a photo of him, is a rainbow-weeping WEF-creature caricature of a man to eleven).
The danger for the AfD is the temptation to "moderate" to be accepted, which won't work to any other end than making them too slaves to the various forces struggling to rule behind the Potemkin-backdrop of "Our Democracy".
I don’t believe Scenario #2 is out the very real realm of possibility. When the Left gets desperate, which they most assuredly are now across the West, they behave like a cornered raccoon and they will lash out with violent determination against their perceived enemies. Add to that, they don’t fear the people or a backlash at all. They have been so ensconced in power for so long without the slightest consideration of what the people may actually want, it has become alien to their nature to even consider it. Their survival, by any means necessary, is all that matters, and damned be the consequences.
But the other elephant in the room is the seriously precarious state of the economies throughout Europe. That reality check is coming no matter what anyone wants, and may be what will determine not just Germany’s future, but the future of all of Europe as well, AfD or no AfD.
I think number 2 is also more likely than what we would like to admit. These are not intelligent people. They do not look at down stream consequences, they are very binary and locked into a view of only the present. And for them, power at any cost, is still a good play. I’m watching Democrat Jews support Mamdani in NYC, talk about self-immolation. It beggars belief.
Truly! Literally everything they’re doing -in a sane world - would be considered suicidal for a political party! And yet, they double-down, and here we are.
Endification is, in essence, the inability to ever admit a mistake has been made. I think this inability to admit a mistake more or less guarantees that AfD is banned at some point in the next year.
I think the "No Kings" protests in the US (and apparently around the world) have reached your "endification" point. No one can really say what they're about, even the most enthusiastic participants. Except for not wanting a king which America hasn't had for 250 years.
That particular endified movement is the anti-Trump movement, and it flared into existence in 2016. They're only message is "because Trump!".
A lot of my friends went to the No Kings protest yesterday. I suppose at some point the subject will come up and I'll try to point out that Biden was more authoritarian than Trump has been. They are particularly blind on this point.
Having seen videos of the protests, I‘d say they are about being a last chance for boomers to make it all about them before the day of the pillow.
Hard times create strong men that create good times. Good times create weak men that create hard times.
Germany and much of the West is living in a time of weak men (many of them are females now). The US has elected a strong man to attempt to stop the decline to hard times again, but it is dubious if he will succeed with all the elites against him for retaining their globalist greed. The problem for the Trump agenda is that the problems they are trying to solve have evolved over decades and fixing them requires breaking things that Democrats and low information voters will rebel against. Trump has a very difficult job explaining this need for the American public to sacrifice today for the greater good tomorrow... especially when the media is failing to report anything but flaming negative attacks on him. I give it 50/50.
From my perspective the problem with the West was that the post-war US-funded Global Order as initiated by the 1944 Bretton Woods Act should have ended 30-40 years ago. Germans as well as many other Europeans and Asians grew too fat dumb and happy with their high life of massive social spending as the US was paying to keep them from blowing each other up again. That "good times" period allowed the weak men and women to slime their way to administrative and money control... through looting, tent-seeking and gambling... certainly not from any productive outcomes or merit. These people dislike industrialization because they never had the right stuff to be industrialists... too much getting one's hand dirty and taking career risks... and those that do have the right stuff are their socioeconomic status competition... and thus they cannot have that again.
They demand that this old Global Order continue. It is why they would involve themselves in creating a fake dossier to try and take out Trump and plant a geriatric cognitively deficient puppet in the White House who by autopen fiat would perpetuate and increase US spending to protect the European dream while also enabling even more Western de-industrialization.
The difference between the US and other Western countries related to this populist uprising to beat down the liberaltard elites probably comes down to one single difference... the Constitutionally protected God-given right to free speech, expression and association. Germany does not have it and without it the people don't have enough populist power to defeat the tyrants in control.
As well as the Second Amendment to protect the first! 💥
Would the “endification” you are speaking of be something similar to what our Democrats here in America are doing in their purity spirals? 🤔
It appears to me that the US is short-cutting the endification... attempting to correct the declining trajectory before it hits the end. The Democrats seem to be committed to taking it to the end so they can continue to extract more wealth from it and to hell with future generations impacted by the final implosion. That seems to be the same motivation of the EUtard elites in control of other European countries. The point about German culture being different is interesting to me... but I think the lack of citizen human rights protection explains at least part of it. Yes, the 2nd Amendment seems key too as without it the tyrants would trample on 1st Amendment rights.
I like this endification definition. It explains a lot. The Democrat party in the US is in the midst of it. They really have no policies, they are just a knee jerk reaction to all things Trump. Currently they try to enhance their powers by inviting boomers and the mentally ill to protest a King, even though that party wanted you to vote for a candidate that never received a single vote in the primary. Their own Queen, if you will. The older members of the Democrat Party are trying to appease the more radical left youngsters like AOC and Mamdani, only to get burned. AOC will likely run against Schumer and Mamdani refused to support Hochul.
I’m hoping we are also watching the endification of the pharmaceutical industry. As the covid vaccine has made many of us start looking into the efficacy of all vaccines and their side effects, in addition to food additives, the pushback has been apparent. RFK Jr remains one of the most highly polled members of the Trump administration. Naturally, the industry is doubling down on their past mistakes and fighting tooth and nail, instead of trying to give gracefully on some points. They want all cattle to be injected with MRNA and so forth. These systems are complex and deeply entrenched int heir viewpoints and presumably their cash inputs. It will be interesting to see where all of this will lead.
The EU has not existed for 80 years so clearly Germany could not have been a member of it for that long. Before Maastricht it was the EEC in the UK but critically its nature was different from what it became afterwards.
Endism is a useful term and concept. We had it here for decades in respect of the EEC/EU. Membership was supported by the old parties because, well because they did. At all costs they had to prevent UKIP andlater The Brexit Party from sowing doubs about it. If there was any recognised fault in the EU it had to be taken on the chin by the UK as a member State. This persists in much of the old parties and they would rejoin in an instant if it was politically possible.
The question of coalition will not arise here until after a general Election because the Conservatives are so weak no one would want to ally with them. After a GE a few individual Tories might support Reform in government if it needs them but the bulk of that party won't because they are much closer in opinions to the other (openly socialist) parties here.
I wonder if, when one larger western country topples its old regime, the habit will run like wildfire.
I think many in the UK had little issue with the EEC, but as it went from economic to political we felt the madness - ECHR being but one aspect.
Except the ECHR is a Council of Europe body that the UK has not Brexited from.
Agreed - but Euro opt-in types see it all as one in the same.
Hence the false cries should we leave, the ignoring of the way ECHR has evolved, and the fake made-up judgements often made with political intent.
True - it was the change from the EEC to the EU with all that implies - remember the disaster that was the "Constitution for the EU" which e.g. Ireland rejected and was made to vote again to accept it? - which turned many of us into firm Leave supporters.
I resigned from the Tories the day the Maastricht Treaty went through the House of Commons. The whips used very unsavoury methods to get the majority.
Indeed the EU27 Kommission mantra 'vote, but vote as we kommand' was the main issue. I do not think this has served any EU27 member state well, and the UK has the scars - as well as treasonous types like Mr Starmer kC.
For me, as well as you explain things, making any kind of sense regarding German politics and policies is mind numbing. How such a people have come to this sad pass is excruciatingly unbelievable…
A tame MSM, political UniParty, and elite who keep all the important levers for themselves, and a public that don't hurt enough - yet.
Watch how that changes as the company mass job losses become real.
usNthem, How??
This 👉🏿
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy2ju_qPtuM&pp=0gcJCfwJAYcqIYzv
And This.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XOLdKtT8w1Y
Poorer, weaker, and worse off. Pretty well sums it up. Cultural suicide is not fun to watch.