Vera Lengsfeld, a former GDR civil rights activist, writes:
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In a number of comments on the Chancellor candidate power struggle in the Union, one can read that the spectacle should distract from the planned attack on the Basic Law by amending the so-called Infection Protection Act. That’s not entirely wrong. But there is much more to it than that. It is about the final elimination of the former CDU successful model in favor of a second left-green party. Of all the possible candidates for Chancellor, only Markus Söder is stupid and / or lacking in character enough to want to bring Chancellor Merkel's mission to a bitter end. -
I have known Angela Merkel since 1990 and know from her own mouth that she has basically always rejected the CDU (“I want nothing to do with the CDU” to Ewald König. “I don't want to look like a CDU chick from the West " to me). For her, the party was the only option to get into big politics after Lothar de Maizière first made her his deputy government spokeswoman and then successfully proposed her to the Kohl cabinet. She became Minister for Women and Youth and inherited de Maizère as Deputy Federal Chairwoman of the CDU. -
But the party, which she never formally joined, but into which she was accepted as a member of the “Democratic Awakening”, only served Merkel as a vehicle of power. I am firmly convinced that there has never been any other bond. That was always Merkel's strength. She could act freely without being hindered by emotional concerns. During her time as party leader, and increasingly as Chancellor, she shifted the CDU further and further to the left. -
During the time of the first grand coalition, the Social Democrats joked that Merkel was the best female social chancellor of all time. Then they stopped laughing because Merkel was involved in social democratic politics, but it did not help the SPD, but rather harmed it. The black and yellow interim government has slowed the left shift of the CDU, but not stopped it. Even the FDP could not or did not want to prevent the sudden exit from atomic energy. -
Officially, this was Merkel's reaction to the tsunami in Japan, but the Greens had previously signaled internally that there could be no coalition with the Union because of the decision to extend the term for the nuclear power plant by the black and yellow government. The party leadership of the Greens would have understood very well that Merkel wanted to collect the money for the implementation of the energy transition from the nuclear power operators with this extension of the term. However, the basis would not support that, said Claudia Roth's office manager during a summer party at Wannsee. In the second grand coalition, even more green issues were focused. The open borders demanded by Claudia Roth were implemented by Chancellor Merkel in 2016. -
There shouldn't actually be a third GroKo. But it wasn't enough for black-green because the Greens entered the Bundestag as the weakest party in 2017 and they were forced to negotiate with the FDP. But it was dumped so arrogantly that the annoyed Christian Lindner got out. -
Instead of being given the chance to recover in the opposition, the SPD had to participate in government again and has since suffered from apparently incurable consumption. Why a 15 percent party is still running a candidate for chancellor has more to do with the power of habit than with a real chance of emerging as the strongest party in the next elections. -
The fourth Merkel government is the very grand coalition, because it has the green ruling party on board while waiting. The Greens are Merkel's most loyal allies, which once again proves their unconditional support for the annulment of the Basic Law by means of an amendment to the Disease Protection Act. Merkel obviously has the goal of laying the ax to federalism at the end of her term of office, which is supposed to prevent Germany from becoming a central power again. -
This short story has to be kept in mind if one is to understand what the question of Chancellor in the Union is really about. -
There are two opposing positions: Armin Laschet has recognized that Germany today is a case of restructuring and that the country, with him the CDU, needs a fundamental renewal. Friedrich Merz is also aware of this, which is why he supports his former adversary Laschet. Both stand for a break with Merkel's policy and a fresh start. Merz is right when he says that Germany is only three percent away from a Chancellor Baerbock, and he wants to prevent that. -
Markus Söder, on the other hand, stands for a continuation of Merkel's policy. If you want Merkel votes, you have to do Merkel politics, he announced. His General Secretary Markus Blume seconded: "We want to continue the success story, the legacy of Angela Merkel." Now the Merkel votes are decreasing. Even if she emerged victorious in the elections, it was not because she had historical successes, but benefited from the weakness of the opponents. -
Merkel's policy has changed Germany profoundly, but not for the better. On the one hand, it produced the AfD and, on the other hand, made the Greens strong. Within just four years, the weakest opposition party in the Bundestag has become a party that not only runs a candidate for chancellor, but can also work out real chances for the chancellery. If Söder should become a candidate for chancellor, he will help the Greens into the Chancellery. -
I have already said it in earlier texts and I am repeating it now: In my opinion, Merkel does not want the Union to win the next federal election because that is the only chance for her that her policy will not be assessed. -
Söder is the guarantee that Germany as a restructuring case will not be discussed in the election campaign. As soon as Söder is nominated, what has already been practiced in “Spiegel” will set in: All of his contradicting statements will be dissected and he will be ripped off by the old media. The old media, which fully rely on Baerbock hype, will look at Söders mask shops and the subsidies for his wife's company. Against Baerbock, the bully from Bavaria will look old. She is as good a media professional as he is. In terms of content, it has nothing to offer. It will show him and the public that green politics are still better made from the original than from plagiarism. -
Armin Laschet is the only chance for the Union to swim free from the left-green corner and to set its own substantive accents. Reinforced with the economic and financial competence of Friedrich Merz, this could avert the impending defeat and the disintegration of the CDU. -
I'm not saying that because I'm a supporter of both, but because I'm afraid for Germany, which deserves better than being dismantled for good.
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Since 16 years I call Merkel the most successful "Wendehals'" (turncoat) of the revolutions that swept away the former Warsaw Pact and the Soviet-dominated regimes in Eastern Europe. I called her that many times in the forum. And that she has a deep-rooting disdain for Germany (I say), at least for the CDU (Lengsfeld indicates).There is an evil old joke about her, according to which Merkel just fulfills Erich Honnecker's late revenge against the "BRD". I do not laugh about that anymore, since long, I think it simply is true. I see the effects of her politcal legacy, and must come to that conclusion.
I disagree with Lengsfeld's praise for Laschet. Laschet is a typical and loyal Merkel-risen boy, and that is the reason why the CDU base rebels against its bosses, some delegates said it quite clearly, oroginal quote: "We do not want a repainted Merkel". Last time I red a number it said that about 70% of the CDU delegates are against Laschet, that is even more rjectio, far more rejection, than in the polled open public (where Söder leads over Laschet
by 2-3 factors). They already were up in arms after the one-year long coalition building three years ago, where Merkel made the biggets looser, the SPD, the biggets winner and gave them the most influential and powerful ministry seats, including finances. What Lengsfeld says about Söder'S comments on continuing Merkelos policy, may or may not be true as well, I do not know if it is true since I canot remember him havign said that, but I may have simpyl missed it. The point is: of Laschet I knoiw sure as hell that he is right on this pro-Merkel-contiuation course, he said it many times, it is said about him, and his boss-supporters all are Merkel fanboys.
But her general description of Söder may be true or not, i am not certain,
to me Söder just combines Machiavellian raffinesse with unscrupulous opportunism. I am a fan of Macchiavelli, because in the first that man was about being unsentimental and objective in trying to identify and describe, without passion, the mechanisms by which to secure power and describe political structures to project it. He did not judge the good and evil in it. He said: if you want to acchieve
this (good or bad in itself, he was not interested), you have to do
that. He did not allow, as best as he could prevent it, that sentiments corrupted his observations, and thats something that I respect.
I expect the Greens in the next government, this way or the other, they even have very realistic chances to win the election and claim the chancellory. That will mean financial hardships for the ordinary people that these so far simply refuse to realise, being blinded by paroles and ideological indoctrination. It also will accelerate the economic decline of Germany and thus the econimic powerhouse of Europe. I see this whole political shift - supported by every party except the AFD - as a direct and immediate danger even to my very own personal economic survival interests as a private being over the longer distance future. I am in danger to get ruined by them over the long run, like many, many others will be as well. Thats why I am not only hostile to these jackals on the matter, but on the personal level as well.
It could not get any more personal, since they threaten the basis of my very economic and financial existence.
The point is neither Söder nor Laschet nor the SPD's Scholz are a valid alternatives. German can only vote on the method of suicide. But suicide it must be, no matter their choice. Blade? Bullet? Poison? Gallow? Choose, its an election year! You are free to choose!
Germany has run out of working options, and gets teared down by the many, many, many burdens and obligations that Merkel has helped to entangle it in. I use to call Merkel something else as well, don't I.
The worst political desaster in Europe since 1933 and the 12 years of darkness following it. Maximum damage done.
Congrats to Honnecker. Looks like he is in for the late win.