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Originally Posted by Catfish
Right. 
A lot of self-important people (including me) thought we could take the last 50 years of relatively calm and peaceful time in Europe to be self-evident, and that all chauvinists and nationalists (for lack of a better term) would die out sooner or later.
Time to get rid of this self-delusion.
Today the new Bundespraesident has been elected, in Germany. Norbert Lammert held a speech not only honouring the last BP, but to remind the people what democracy stands for, in Europe, and why it is wrong for nations to encapsulate. Very calm, but powerful with a lot of hints and side blows. And he did not even mention Erdoghan.
I liked it  |
I guess it was too much to hope for that we'd actually learn from history and be able to learn to live together, wasn't it?