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05-13-17, 05:11 AM | #226 | |
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Understanding the Merkel. An American analysis.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/09/...erkel-germany/ As usual with such pieces, it most ikely gives too sober a descritpion of the truth - in this case Merkel'S poltical calculation -, but intentional or by random chance: her political acting indeed is reflected a bit by what the author describes here. Personally I think he underestmates the infuence of plitical messiah-syndrome which in case of Merkel and many other Germna polticians fundamentally bases on the socialization experiences in the DDR and the FdJ, and results in generla attitude of "us the knowing, planning party" and "them the led, obedient collective". In other words: feudalist elitism. Quote:
On a side note, compared to the almost hysteric enthusiasm the SPF displayed over the so-called Schultz-effect, surprisingly little of that effect is still alive. Schultz since weeks is in a nose dive - in the precise vertical.
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Today was the third and last state election before national elections in September. Martin Schultz' SPD scored its third of three crushing defeats, the hype about his chancelor candidation is ultimately over.
The coalition government of SPD and Greens is a thing of the past. Northrhine-Westphalia is the federal state with the biggest population of all 16 states in Germany, almost every fifth German lives here. It's also SPD heartland. The region is the industrial powerhouse of Germany, but this cannot deceive over the fact that 8 years of SPD-Green coaltion have ruined the finances, saw the devbts ecploding over socialist pet polcies,a nd educaiton and schools eroding dramatically. The interior minisiter and his both incompetent and egoist handling of police management also played a role, the night of NYE in Cologne has not been forgotten, nor forgiven, but this man, Jäger his name, already scored negative headlines before that, and again after that, and repeatedly. All-forgiving migration policies of this state allowed Islamic terrorist Nasri to carry out his terror attack in Berlin at christmas. CDU gains, SPD heavy losses and worst result in this state ever, Greens halved, AfD in, SED-left out. The so-called "honest" final standing, standardizing the election results against the total electorate. Biggest group again are the non-voters ("Nichtwähler"), almost 35% did not care or refused to give legitimization. It is hard to imagine that Merkel does not win in September. Schultz trails behind 0:3.
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germans are hilarious.. They keep complaining about merkel's politics day in, day out and the next morning they go voting for CDU Things never change, huh?
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Not at the moment. Schulz is a joke, who can only play one card: 'Volksnähe', while the others aren't even worth mentioning, of course. So yes, Merkel it is, I'm afraid. |
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Most CDU voters are pensioners which could be called the 'silent majority' I guess.. They sit all day long in front of their TVs rather than being vocal in public, so who really knows why they vote for CDU regardless even when the refugee crisis was the big topic of the NRW election and even when Merkel+CDU were responsible for it.. Hail Kohl all over again, cause there's no reasoning possible when the majority of voters are hooked up on medication
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Ugh, n one doubts most CDU voters are retired people.
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Is a retired person automatically some old cracker on medication?? And again, those who did complain about Merkel, probably didn't vote her. It's not as if all of Germany collectively complained that Merkel is a bad chancellor overall, or did I miss something? |
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05-14-17, 06:38 PM | #235 |
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Over 50% - growing - of the total nation-wide electorate in Germany is at the age 50+.
Young people planning their own future, family, children, should get the creeps when knowing this. It means parties will design their voter bribery and spending frenzies before elections according to the most vital voter group: the elder. The old can overvote the young into the ground. The young have to paypaypay, and then have to paypaypaypay and paypaypay. Germans already are the second-most taxed population in the world. Only the Belgians get blackmailed for even more protection money by their state syndicate.
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Of course, it is possible the information is distorted and incorrect. http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/c...the-world.html http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...w/48216892.cms
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Where do you get this from? Any numbers/facts? You're continuously making some questionable claims, but what's your point? Also, neither Kohl nor Merkel are from Bavaria, and the CDU is no Bavarian party as well - that's the CSU. |
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Source: http://www.oecd.org/ctp/tax-policy/t...7-brochure.pdf
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05-19-17, 11:46 AM | #239 | |
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Are you ready for the red pill?
http://ef-magazin.de/2017/05/19/1102...die-rote-pille THIS IS IN GERMAN. Sorry, it ius too long as if I wojuod care to translate it, but the essay is spot on, focussing on the parallels between that fmaous scene from Matrix, and our contemporrary sociological and political present and "reality". It gave me some grim satisfaciton to read this, like I sometimes feel when reading somehtign by someone on a rare circumstance that confirms, or agrees with the way I meet this criminal regime of opurs that so many people until today consider to be a good thing, an incarnation of freeom and liberty. It isn't. We are all slaves - and most of us are so much in tranbce that we fight with detemrination against everybody telling us what liberty really is. Quote:
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Isn't that bascially what they call in the US libertarianism?
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