Posted on 06/03/2025 9:19:37 PM PDT by logi_cal869
In the United States, if Americans know anything about the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, it’s that the AfD are a bunch of Nazi-adjacent hooligans who threaten to return Germany to Hitlerism. They know this because that’s what the American media tell them. Very few will bother to go online to find the English-language version of AfD’s party platform. If they did, they would find a wealth of common sense, and proposals that sound like ordinary GOP positions, even before the Trumpening of the Republican Party.
It’s the same thing in Europe, of course. In her speech last week at CPAC Hungary, AfD leader Alice Weidel said that in Germany, “politicians fear us like no other party, and for good reason.” The reason, of course, is that AfD tells the plain truth about the various crises besieging Germany, especially those caused by mass migration and Islamization. The German establishment would rather demonize and suppress all those who notice the fracturing of their country than deal forthrightly with the problems that their own globalist ideology and managerial, authoritarian liberalism have caused.
I don’t know, though, if Europeans understand how truly horrific things are in Germany for AfD politicians and their supporters. Last Friday, I attended a private meeting with some AfD lawmakers and party officials who were in Budapest for CPAC.
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This pathological fear of ordinary humans who think and feel ordinary human things has led Germany to a state of what I call “soft totalitarianism,” and indeed one that is pushing the boundaries of the hard version.
Again, though, the media have no interest in reporting on it, and scarcely more interest in reporting on actual conditions leading populist, nationalist parties like the AfD to gain ground among European peoples.
(Excerpt) Read more at europeanconservative.com ...
True enough but a lot of our liberty is being chiseled away while the Supreme Courtiers play with themselves.
Europe's power center with respect to immigration policy isn't actually in any of the feral cities except for one: Brussels. And the decisions that affect everyday life are made by the very last people to feel their consequences. They are historically the last ones to go to the guillotine as well, but go they will.
These have no contingency plans for deporting anyone as they haven't the slightest intentions of doing so. Like all authoritarians their intention is permanent, irrevocable change.
In a best-case scenario central EU bureaucracy will fail when it can no longer enforce its edicts through the national governments, who will end up dealing with the problem with their recovered sovereignty in their own various ways. Some of those will be surrender. Some will be violence.
There is a certain sadness that a Europe freed from the tensions of the Cold War has found, through its rulers, a way to indulge in the killing again. A number of commentators on geostrategy have speculated on what it all will look like when Pax Americana ends. We're about to find out.
Just an observation:
I find it interesting that neither the author nor anyone who’s commented thus far has mentioned the underlying issue at hand (IMHO): The New Caliphate.
https://rairfoundation.com/rise-new-caliphate-europe-faces-growing-jihadist-threat/
According to a US customs report, the primary sources for illegally smuggling high quality small arms are Germany and eastern Europe. If the Brits or French need to arm themselves with well-made and plentiful battle rifles, the conduit to do so sits right in their backyards.
LOL You knew all along ... you scallywag! heh
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