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Originally Posted by jimbuna
(Post 1781508)
@Sky....was Merkel really willing to give in I mean, what would be in it for Germany? :hmmm:
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There is a deep-rootinjg desire in the German
intelligenzia to dismantle Germany and let it merge into a bigger state of Europe that is given birth by Germany'S heroic and path-leading self-sacrifice. Our Greens say they crave for the day when Germany will not be any German anymore (original quote), and that they like it the better the less German it is (original quote), our conservatives in parts want Germany to lose the meaning of a state and being formed into the first cell of the new European superstate (original quote), our socialists want no states at all and especially Germany being the first to get forgotten as a national entity, since thousand years of history mean nothing but 15 years of tyranny mean everything and thus Germany is evil from top to bottom and not worth to be remembered; they want the socialistically inspired planned economy with x-years-plans made in Brussel which serves as their holy grail of how to heal Europe, and our communists, well, you can imagine what they are wanting.
Yes, Merkel was serious. And the story is not yet over. The next EU-meeting tomorrow will raise the demand again, and the chancellor's office is said to fight bitterly with the stubborn Bundesbank president currently, to make him comply. Merkel installed the new president herself, he was a close adviser to her and she hoped he would be a puppet in the federal bank obeying her commands. That is why many fear that he will not hold out in his resistence, but sooner or later give up. His predecessor already gave up in protest and despair over politicians trying to destroy the bank's independence, both the ECB and the German Federal Bank. That'S why you do not see him in the ECB chief position now (he was agreed upon throughout Europe due to his stressing of stability and debt-control), but Draghi, who is quite the opposite of the former German candidate and immediately lowered the interest rates already on his first day.
I say this serious: the Germasn are not rational, when it comes to Europe, and romanticism and illusions control their decisions to quite some degree. Optimists say that could serve as a motivation for the "European project", whatever that means. Realists like me just stick to the obvious conclusion and just call it decisions based on irrationality, emotions, and romantic dreaming. It goes withiout need to mentioning it that it already serves as an invitation to others to suck our blood that we so voluntarily distribute for free.
I wish we would go back 200 years and start searching the blue flower again. Would be less costly to us, and still more satisfying for our sentiments, and would create some good prose. Contemporary German literature - is a sad state of affairs.
Das Volk der Dichter und Denker - don'T see much of that anymore.
Germans tick differently. I do not mean that as a joke. If I have learned one thing here in these forums over the past ten years, then this. Do not compare us to the British or the French. We are
Romantiker - that formed some of the most influential cultural treasury in the world, helped to trigger two world wars, and now makes us sacrificing ourselves over illusions of a better world to make. Which is a contradiction, because in principle Germans are no people overly enthusiastic over foreigners. It's still that feeling of guilt for WWII, I assume. And a wide gap between our self-declared pseudo-elites and political establishement, and the people.
