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Originally Posted by mapuc
Whether you like or dislike her, she has been a factor in EU politics
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Yes, that is true. She is no doubt the worst political calamity since 1933. Only the 12 years after 1933 did more damage to the Germans and put more burdens on their shoulders. Her damage to justice and liberty in Europe is hard to overestimate thanks to her pushing for the EU, again at Germany's massive cost and expanded vulnerabiltiies and dependencies. In the end the EEC probably only was founded to keep the German economy in chains after WWII.
Germans snuggled 16 years with an Anaconda. She returned the embrace. I count practically all her political "acchievements" as negatives. Abandoning nuclear power. Migration and open borders. Energy costs, and energy infrastructure. Target 2 policy. Iran. China. Turkey and Erdoghan. Erosion of Maastricht treaty. EU and vaccination buying. Treason over the EU constitution's validation rules and the dictate of Lisbon. And much more: these listed items are just the landmark acchievements.
In the end she is just a GDR-socialised political fat cat with the surprisngly authoritarian self-understanding of a SED Staatsratsvorsitzende. Too many decisions she made in explicit backroom deals in violation of democratic decision making rules, especially on EU level.
In the end the EU only exists to keep the Germans under control and in tight locks, and Germany subscribes to a worldview in which cultural differences between civilizations and ethnicities get denied. She was given an award by the Vienna-seated Coudehove-Kalergi society, like Kohl before her, another great germany-deniar. There are two ways in whcih yoiu can tell the story of Kalergi, one glossing over the ideal, the other being more realistic and thus negative.
I know nobody in germany who has the format to fill the chair at the top of German politics and state leadership. Nobody. The political class in Germany has the qualification and character suitability of as a left-over sale. Merciless mediocrity and dilettantism everywhere. No party is electable.
No, I am no nationalistically feeling man. I never was. But I believe in the ethical superiority of many of the basic conceptions of Western occidential cultural tradition. These have done more good than harm, and more good to mankind than any other culture ever has. Yeah IknowIknow, all the bads and evils also being done, but I stick to it: all in all added together, by net effect the occidental culture, the ancient greek heritage and the Christian-Judaic tradition have done more good than bad than anyone else (we have forgotten and get taught to ignore these roots, and see what has become of us, we have lost our sense of origin, we do not know who we are, we cannot even imagine why we even should want to be somebody: we are endlessly egalitarian quantities of nothingness, and accodignly we dwell around without orientation). I am a radical decentraliser of state authority and a strong opponent of the concept of strong centralised state. Thje bigger the bpaygroudn for potlkciians to paly on, the bigger the desaster and its rteac that they create - keep them on ultrashort lines, therefore. Thats why to me the institutions of the French and American and Russian presidents with their far reaching powers in the end are pure political nightmares, with Trump exemplarily ilustrating why this is so. i believe in that people and cultures are different, not equal, and that man and woman shall be equal before the rules of the land'S law. I believe that a state is just the highest and meaniesst form of organised crime, that taxes are illegitimately blackmailed protection money and loot, that a tax obligation exiosts only as far as their exists a obligation to get raped, and that every people has the right so self-govern itself in the place and region where it lives, and no other foreign authority from far away has a right to command them. I believe the state's power should be replaced with a system of private rights and that stuff that gets intransparently paid for with taxes, should not be financed by taxes, but by transparent raises on the attached price tags since the producers should be the ones takign care that their goods and services actually can be distributed (so they are self-interest- driven in the end). The only reasons why state-like structures are acceptable, is the protection of borders and the unified defence against miliutrary threats form outside. A state not guaranteeing the integrity of the broder and refusing to defend against a military enemy, has lost its legitimation. I am ver ymuch in congurncy with Hans Herrmann Hoppe's most radical diagnosis of the current state of things and his profound criticism of democratic contemporary structures. To me things do not work because in this setup they cannot work and do violate the basics of human nature, both in good and bad. Nothing designed to work against the basic human agture can endlessly prevail.
If you take all this together, you may understand why when some people attack me over my views on politics and EU call me a nationalist or Nazi, I onkly shak emy head and giggle. Nothing I am less than a nationalist. I refuse to be somebody else's lamb that he can exploit, thats it. I want not social solidarity without discrimination - I want justice. I rate liberty and freedom and self-responsibility over collectivism and foreign-defined "social responsibility". I deny that the question for justice can be brought up without causal own responsibility going first, and therefore I reject to feel myself responsible and obligated for people with whom I have no business whatever. I may choose to do so, for my personal reasons - but I have no obligation legally or morally to do so.