Why the modern Germany again is so mercilessly collectively oriented, which makes German mentality extremely vulnerable for totalitarianism, enforced collectivism, willing to allow paternalistic infantilizing by a strong centralized nanny state, and in general time and again falls for a strong
Führer (or
VerFührerin).
http://www.achgut.com/artikel/demokr...ssverstaendnis
The text is an excerpt from the book "
Mal eben kurz die Welt retten - Die Deutschen zwischen Größenwahn und Selbstverleugnung."
In no other country in the world there is such a strong club-mentality and do so many clubs and associations exist, like in Germany. In no other country (not even the Asian countries which are assoiacted with strong collectivistic mindsets so easily) you will find such a big share of the general population beign organised in clubs and associations.
And in no other country of the West you find the educqaiton sector and the media sector being so overwhelmingly infiltrated by left-leaning ideologists.
This is why Germans stare in disbelief at individualists (=egoists!) daring to do their own thing and not caring for the crowd. this is why Germans find the idea that Trump could be elected as president, and the Britons voting for Brexit, unimaginable. Germans have transformed totalitarian collectivism of the past into something new, or better, they dressed it in new clothes: they now call it "consensus", and they believe that the state-ordered consensus goal is "without alternative". Here it helps that Merkel has managed to render all political differentiations between parties pointless. Germany today in principle is a socialist one-party-state like the GDR was. The pluralism the state-sponsored and state-nursed left-leaning journalistic claquers stand ready to point at all too willingly, the severla parties there are in the Bundestag that give them food for their daily talk shows and witty comments in newspapers: are just deception, strawman, alibi. They mean nothing. The diversity is Potemkian diversity.
Which is okay for the German's mentality, as long as he is not excluded form the running pack of dogs. And so, in case of doubts or danger of being accused of having a different opinion, he choses to again howl with the dog pack.
We have had two socialist dictatorships in a row over here. And this is where it has led us. Lessons learned: none.
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On a sidenote, the German Lieutenant-Colonel from that story I linked to some days ago, two posts above, has filed charges against the German defence ministress, apparently for character assassination. Its the first time ever I think that a German defence minister or ministress
gets sued by a high ranking German military officer.
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Finally, Schultz has called the Bundestag for legalizing same-sex marriages, in a bit to get these clients' votes. Merkel immediately and without any scrupels withdrew from positions the CDU had held for decades, and allowed the vote to be individual (which, Big Mama, is just what the constitution says anyway, not only is there no constitutional basis for parties' claim and demand that politicians have to vote in accordance with party policy - the constitution even explicitly says that it cannot be like that at all: article 38, paragraph 1). Again, the only principle of Merkelianism has shown in her ruthless acting free of any moral values and ethical hindrances: the principle of that there never shall be principles allowed to come in her way, and that no principles shall ever be allowed to stand between her and power. Opportunism in its purest form.