This is how countries, societies are de-stabilized, balkanized etc. The resulting turmoil then results in takeover by any strong man who can promise or maybe even deliver order. The best that they can hope for is that man is western and nominally Christian. Putin is a good example.
How Merkel is still in office is amazing.
Germans are as addicted to the welfare state as Americans are.
Sometimes you just have to let the kid stick the butter knife into the electrical outlet.