Posted on 09/11/2016 8:59:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Chancellor Merkel’s refugee policies have divided the country and the right-wing populist AfD party is rapidly gaining support. Conservatives are calling on Merkel to change course, but she is refusing to admit fallibility. Could this be the end? […]
The late phases of a chancellor’s term tend to be tortuous. Konrad Adenauer didn’t want to go because he thought he was the only one capable of leading the country, only stepping aside for Ludwig Erhard after 14 long years in office. Helmut Kohl resisted retirement because he thought only he could push through the common currency in Europe. He was, in fact, so convinced that history needed him that he ignored all warnings of his impending defeat. In the end, the CDU fell in behind Kohl and sank with him in the 1998 elections.
Will history now repeat itself? Merkel has always been formidably agile. In her first campaign for the Chancellery, she promised to fundamentally reform Germany, but when she lost by a hair in the September 2005 vote, her ambitious plan disappeared into the party archives. Her promise to extend the lifetimes of Germany’s nuclear reactors was likewise thrown overboard following the tsunami in Japan and ensuing meltdown in Fukushima. …
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I sure hope so. She sure has screwed up Germany.
Fundamentally reform? Well she sure succeeded there, if it’s anything like we’ve been “fundamentally transformed” here! FUBO/AM!
This shows a woman with no concern for Germany, only for power.
She’s gone. Who’s next?
25 years from now when the effect of the rapefugees is in full bloom, Germans will be arguing whether Hitler or Merkel was the worst leader for Germany.
Probably the Socialists.
Just like the regional elections, the AfD will be split by the traitorous CDU/CSU loyalists who think they’re too icky and don’t want to be called Neo-Nazis.
Today my daughter begins her ascent to power (starts first grade).
Sounds like Hillary.
Don't think its exactly a lust for power. I think its desperation.
Consider what it would cost her to admit that she had made a horrible mistake and reverse course. She has doubled down too often on supporting her delusions--admitting this to others and herself would be to accept an overwhelming sense of shame and guilt. She will likely fight tooth and nail for the power she needs to keep that day of reckoning at bay....no matter what the cost to the German people living in the real world.
“Consider what it would cost her to admit that she had made a horrible mistake and reverse course. She has doubled down too often on supporting her delusions—admitting this to others and herself would be to accept an overwhelming sense of shame and guilt. She will likely fight tooth and nail for the power she needs to keep that day of reckoning at bay....no matter what the cost to the German people living in the real world.”
That is an interesting, and I think accurate thought. I worked for a company where the top management were living a delusion. I was the interface between the world as they saw it and reality. Very stressful. They destroyed the company. I don’t think they ever admitted, even to themselves, that they had done the wrong thing(s). They treated me as though I was the problem and I was the first to leave when we lost our contracts. So, I suspect that Merkel will transfer the blame to any nearby person or object. Nothing will have happened because of her (delusional) actions.
Sorry you had to go through that. By God’s grace I hope more people can stay in reality and accept they make mistakes, have some humility about it and move on.
Give her a big hug.
It’s human nature and seems to have been so since the dawn of time.
Straight after school. Of course.
This is highly inappropriate. Needs to go away.
I know you’ve been around for a long time, so I don’t want to see you gone, but I don’t think this was a comment that’s right for our community here.
I hope the Merkel era is ending, it should end. Before the refugee crisis, she was a successful Prime Minister. But she has so destroyed her nation that none of her prior accomplishments matter any more.
Hey, I,ve got ancestors from Schloss Wasserburg am Bodensee.
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