On 2 May 2025, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) declared Alternative für Deutschland to be a “confirmed right-wing extremist” organisation. Their upgraded assessment was a rush job – a final blow AgAiNSt ThE RiGHT ordered by then-Interior Minister Nancy Faeser of the Social Democrats during her last moments in office.
It's been a bad several months for posting. First I suffered a bit of burnout, so I took a few weeks of semi-holiday. Then, just a few weeks after my return, my girlfriend suffered a serious accident last Thursday, landing in hospital with some rough injuries. Things took a turn for the worse over the weekend, but they're looking up now, and I hope to get the blog back up to speed (and my girlfriend back home) by the end of the week. Thanks as always for your patience with me.
I hope serious accident wasn’t inexplicable as BfV agents seen driving away at speed. Stay safe and stay well. The decline of democratic norms will keep going for a while yet, plenty of time to catch up and keep writing.
I am glad that is the case in Germany but it appears to me that using gossip and being in the " wrong group" as far as ones ideology goes can get you into quite a bit of trouble in some "democracies". Sorry if it sounds a little muddled!
I find the MSM in the UK is quite amazing with its gaslighting. I basically take everything they say as the opposite of what if happening. A along with any government agency.
I find Mr Starmer KC and his mates difficult to follow, so like you, the few times MSM breaks through, apply 180 degree logic and the result is at least 80 per cent accurate.
Like the common cold sweeping across which has become.. yes... C-19, complete with lockdowns! All of that since the start of October 2025.
It's as if the past 5 years did not happen at all.
Canadians should not get complacent, believing that our Charter of rights and freedoms will protect us from state abuse. Affordability, public safety, the economy and trade are Canadian’s top concerns. So what does the new Mark Carney Liberal advance legislation on priorities: Information, Censorship, and more powers for the federal government to override laws and regulations to “advance projects in the national interest” 😉
German government wants to ban the AfD. Biden tried to imprison Trump. France is trying to ban Marine Le Pen. Japan just elected a right-wing woman, to the great surprise of most. A monumental shift is percolating worldwide. May Germany escape the rapture without violence.
Macron’s PM already resigned today after failing to form a cabinet. Let’s see the new funny business Macron comes up with. He’s been anywhere but France the past few weeks.
Ironic but not surprising that Nancy Faeser and Vice chancellor Lars Klingbeil (among others in the German government) are Antifa.
I hope Trump graduates that particular terrorist organization from “domestic” to “international.” Then he can start mentioning the history and current significant participants in his messaging.
'No sane person, whatever his politics, should want a secret spy agency to wield this kind of power.'
My very favorite movie ever is Terry Gilliam's 1985 film Brazil. From what you describe, Germany is getting closer and closer to that dystopian vision.
There's a reason that rather than a "Ministry of Truth", the movie has a "Ministry of Information". Whoever controls the information gets to dictate what truth is.
If the secret spy agency can be used as a bludgeoning tool it will be used. See Joe Biden and his Autopen collective. (Maybe not the best example of sanity, granted.)
Did you see the DOJ is already honing in on Antifa leadership? The speed of which leads me to believe all the research was accomplished ahead of time. Research into US Antifa funding was only just announced this morning.
It's reasonable for a government to want civil servants who are aligned with their goals and politics. This is why in the American system a new "administration" is elected, not just some ministers. The top civil servants in each institution are then replaced, and this is considered normal.
If I were a socialist, I too would not want AfD members to be judges, senior civil servants, etc. I might imagine they would try to undermine or at least not enthusiastically implement my policies.
But of course, what goes around comes around. Now they have taken these steps towards a US system, they must be OK with every SP member being purged if and when the AfD manage to enter a coalition with sufficient power to do so. And if they've eliminated all the right wing people, then that would mean a total turnover of the civil service. This isn't practical except by massively reducing its size, but what is practical is "harnessing" all the people with any decision making power by using AI:
The SP would obviously object, because being leftists they are unable to understand basic concepts like hypocrisy. But there'd be no reason for anyone on the right to care.
Well, we're not talking about political appointees here, or even the upper tiers of the civil service, like the state secretaries. These rules will affect teachers, police officers, librarians and a lot of ordinary people.
Yes, and heavily left-controlled police, teachers and librarians are a big concern for the right today in many countries but they struggle to mobilize because these professions all claim to be neutral and politically trustworthy - left merely by default.
If the German government actually formalizes that arrangement then they simply create a new norm, opening up the Overton window to truly massive purges of the entire civil service if the right ever get into power. After all, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
In a free society how people debate in their own time is their business.
The moment an employee decides to implement policy at work just because they feel like it, is wrong.
What the German blob is doing here is to insist on block voting - if employed by the Blob, there are pre-approved ideas, pre-approved votes, pre-approved 'rights' and anyone not doing this 24/7 is fired.
Yes, it's effectively vote buying. The left loves this kind of tactic. They always look for ways to use state money to buy votes for the left.
Unfortunately the reality is that leftists cannot and will not leave their politics at the door. They think everyone has to be loyal 24/7 because they themselves never stop thinking of ways to abuse the power given in their job to advance leftism, so they can't imagine anyone else would do likewise.
So getting to a place where mass purges of the public sector are politically viable is necessary.
I think I saw a good word about this: "clientelist politics". I think it means exactly what you're talking about here. YOU say the right things, and stick with the Party through thick and thin; WE will make sure you get preferential treatment. That's the deal.
In the US’s capital city, UN wards of 90% of the people living here / working for the federal government are leftist democrats (can’t help but wonder why this is so); does anyone know what the breakdown re party allegiance is for the German federal government? Or is it just more obvious in a 2 party system?
“…the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) declared Alternative für Deutschland to be a “confirmed right-wing extremist” organisation.”
What a wonderfully “Orwellian” name, BfV—and within the same sentence the confirmation of the irony for all to see. WOW, simply wow! It doesn’t get better than that!
Normie Germans have a completely different idea of what, “Democracy” means. The roots of which are subdued by the thumb of WW2 consequences pressed upon the scale. This corruption taints all notions of how to “protect” their democracy and leaves them vulnerable to manipulation by the arbiters of truth.
A German told me recently that because of Great Grandpa, not even choice can be safely left to the German population. Therefore, sacrifices must at times be made to preserve sanctity of the state.
It's been a bad several months for posting. First I suffered a bit of burnout, so I took a few weeks of semi-holiday. Then, just a few weeks after my return, my girlfriend suffered a serious accident last Thursday, landing in hospital with some rough injuries. Things took a turn for the worse over the weekend, but they're looking up now, and I hope to get the blog back up to speed (and my girlfriend back home) by the end of the week. Thanks as always for your patience with me.
Best wishes and speedy recovery to Eugyppia!
Hope you and girlfriend get well soon.
I cannot fathom what it's like to live in today's Germany.
If the green agenda continues, your country will continue it's downward spiral.
Eugyppius, your posts are always worth waiting for. Best wishes to you and your girlfriend.
Sending healing vibes to you and your girlfriend.
Many prayers for your GF’s swift and complete recovery! May God bless and be with you both mightily! 🙏♥️🙏
Gute Besserung!
Best wishes for your girlfriend, I hope she’ll make a full recovery 🙏💙💫
Healing and blessings 🙏🏻
Prayers for you and your significant other!
A speedy recovery to your good lady, Eugy.
Oh my gosh sending healing thoughts and prayers and hope that you can both get some time to rest together soon 😊🙏
Oh my goodness!
All the best of luck for the future and best of health!
Speedy recovery!
All best wishes!
Sincerely hope you and yours are feeling better and that the following item might be of some slight interest: - “The Promethean Power of Burnout.”
https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/12/30/david-whyte-burnout/
I pray for refeshment for you and healing and comfort for your girlfriend.
I hope serious accident wasn’t inexplicable as BfV agents seen driving away at speed. Stay safe and stay well. The decline of democratic norms will keep going for a while yet, plenty of time to catch up and keep writing.
Is it my imagination but aren't all of the "intelligence. Agencies" in supposedly democratic countries doing what the Stasi did in the old DDR?
the only reason the BfV haven't gone full Stasi is that, by design, they do not have police powers.
YET
I am glad that is the case in Germany but it appears to me that using gossip and being in the " wrong group" as far as ones ideology goes can get you into quite a bit of trouble in some "democracies". Sorry if it sounds a little muddled!
We have lots of that in Mr Starmer KC's Britain. Group think on steroids.
I find the MSM in the UK is quite amazing with its gaslighting. I basically take everything they say as the opposite of what if happening. A along with any government agency.
Good man.
I find Mr Starmer KC and his mates difficult to follow, so like you, the few times MSM breaks through, apply 180 degree logic and the result is at least 80 per cent accurate.
Like the common cold sweeping across which has become.. yes... C-19, complete with lockdowns! All of that since the start of October 2025.
It's as if the past 5 years did not happen at all.
https://www.ksbw.com/article/santa-cruz-county-mask-mandate-acute-care/68544510
It's only in "acute care", but of course ignores the fact that masks do basically nothing for respiratory viruses.
What? Is the UK doing lockdowns again?
Rapidly getting to that stage in Australia too.
A new speech law every month or so.
I'm hoping the great leader, Dan Andrews, is able to stop drinking for a few minutes to resume Kontrol?
Soooo glad to have been in Qld during the dreaded Plague.
'the only reason the BfV haven't gone full Stasi is that, by design, they do not have police powers.'
Wait 10 minutes. It seems inevitable.
In Canada, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) has no policing powers whatsoever. It has no ability to do what Stasi did.
Canadians should not get complacent, believing that our Charter of rights and freedoms will protect us from state abuse. Affordability, public safety, the economy and trade are Canadian’s top concerns. So what does the new Mark Carney Liberal advance legislation on priorities: Information, Censorship, and more powers for the federal government to override laws and regulations to “advance projects in the national interest” 😉
Sounds like…
“Hans - are we the baddies?”
Jah. How is this possible?
German government wants to ban the AfD. Biden tried to imprison Trump. France is trying to ban Marine Le Pen. Japan just elected a right-wing woman, to the great surprise of most. A monumental shift is percolating worldwide. May Germany escape the rapture without violence.
Macron’s PM already resigned today after failing to form a cabinet. Let’s see the new funny business Macron comes up with. He’s been anywhere but France the past few weeks.
Ironic but not surprising that Nancy Faeser and Vice chancellor Lars Klingbeil (among others in the German government) are Antifa.
I hope Trump graduates that particular terrorist organization from “domestic” to “international.” Then he can start mentioning the history and current significant participants in his messaging.
FYI the WH as of this morning says Bessent will be looking into who funds Antifa. 🎉
One of them, Mark Bray (author of the Antifa handbook) is now fleeing to Spain.‼️
Welcome back! I hope your GF is better.
thanks tardigrade, also for your patience. it's going to be a while until she's better, but the situation has stabilised and things are looking up.
There is never not the first step of declaring the "them" The Heretics Who Must Be Burned. Or banned, or busted, But always, always Bad.
[sending continued well wishes to be conveyed onwards]
thanks for well-wishes, i will indeed pass them on.
'No sane person, whatever his politics, should want a secret spy agency to wield this kind of power.'
My very favorite movie ever is Terry Gilliam's 1985 film Brazil. From what you describe, Germany is getting closer and closer to that dystopian vision.
There's a reason that rather than a "Ministry of Truth", the movie has a "Ministry of Information". Whoever controls the information gets to dictate what truth is.
If the secret spy agency can be used as a bludgeoning tool it will be used. See Joe Biden and his Autopen collective. (Maybe not the best example of sanity, granted.)
In order to save the village we had to destroy it.
Perfectly sensible Antifa logic.
Did you see the DOJ is already honing in on Antifa leadership? The speed of which leads me to believe all the research was accomplished ahead of time. Research into US Antifa funding was only just announced this morning.
Well, I hope DoJ gets to do the job and those who may have broken the law get their day on court. The viper is slowly being removed.
I am conflicted.
It's reasonable for a government to want civil servants who are aligned with their goals and politics. This is why in the American system a new "administration" is elected, not just some ministers. The top civil servants in each institution are then replaced, and this is considered normal.
If I were a socialist, I too would not want AfD members to be judges, senior civil servants, etc. I might imagine they would try to undermine or at least not enthusiastically implement my policies.
But of course, what goes around comes around. Now they have taken these steps towards a US system, they must be OK with every SP member being purged if and when the AfD manage to enter a coalition with sufficient power to do so. And if they've eliminated all the right wing people, then that would mean a total turnover of the civil service. This isn't practical except by massively reducing its size, but what is practical is "harnessing" all the people with any decision making power by using AI:
https://penbroke.substack.com/p/controlling-institutions-with-machines
The SP would obviously object, because being leftists they are unable to understand basic concepts like hypocrisy. But there'd be no reason for anyone on the right to care.
Well, we're not talking about political appointees here, or even the upper tiers of the civil service, like the state secretaries. These rules will affect teachers, police officers, librarians and a lot of ordinary people.
Yes, and heavily left-controlled police, teachers and librarians are a big concern for the right today in many countries but they struggle to mobilize because these professions all claim to be neutral and politically trustworthy - left merely by default.
If the German government actually formalizes that arrangement then they simply create a new norm, opening up the Overton window to truly massive purges of the entire civil service if the right ever get into power. After all, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
To your point…
This current purge will feel political and will only enhance low trust in government.
In a free society how people debate in their own time is their business.
The moment an employee decides to implement policy at work just because they feel like it, is wrong.
What the German blob is doing here is to insist on block voting - if employed by the Blob, there are pre-approved ideas, pre-approved votes, pre-approved 'rights' and anyone not doing this 24/7 is fired.
Yes, it's effectively vote buying. The left loves this kind of tactic. They always look for ways to use state money to buy votes for the left.
Unfortunately the reality is that leftists cannot and will not leave their politics at the door. They think everyone has to be loyal 24/7 because they themselves never stop thinking of ways to abuse the power given in their job to advance leftism, so they can't imagine anyone else would do likewise.
So getting to a place where mass purges of the public sector are politically viable is necessary.
I think I saw a good word about this: "clientelist politics". I think it means exactly what you're talking about here. YOU say the right things, and stick with the Party through thick and thin; WE will make sure you get preferential treatment. That's the deal.
Reading this, I felt the same conflict.
In the US’s capital city, UN wards of 90% of the people living here / working for the federal government are leftist democrats (can’t help but wonder why this is so); does anyone know what the breakdown re party allegiance is for the German federal government? Or is it just more obvious in a 2 party system?
“…the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) declared Alternative für Deutschland to be a “confirmed right-wing extremist” organisation.”
What a wonderfully “Orwellian” name, BfV—and within the same sentence the confirmation of the irony for all to see. WOW, simply wow! It doesn’t get better than that!
Perhaps German "Democracy" was just a Spenglerian pseudomorphosis all along.
Mead glasses clink somewhere in a Teutonic hall.
Normie Germans have a completely different idea of what, “Democracy” means. The roots of which are subdued by the thumb of WW2 consequences pressed upon the scale. This corruption taints all notions of how to “protect” their democracy and leaves them vulnerable to manipulation by the arbiters of truth.
That photo is real postcard material, isn't it?
The architectural style goes beyond Brutalism…Terminal Ennui, perhaps?
LOL, indeed!
Please tell me this building was constructed by the DDR.
What goes around, comes around.
'We are literally abolishing democracy in order to defend it.'
And yet the people doing this don't appear to be aware of it. Not just in Germany, but in a lot of western democracies at the moment.
Are they deliberately turning a blind eye? Are they just sticking their heads in the sand? Are they really that stupid?
So much easier to believe that it's completely deliberate.
A German told me recently that because of Great Grandpa, not even choice can be safely left to the German population. Therefore, sacrifices must at times be made to preserve sanctity of the state.
👇🏾
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy2ju_qPtuM&pp=0gcJCRsBo7VqN5tD
Oh no! It’s a plot twist a blind man could see coming a mile away!
Can’t see the forest, something something….