Posted on 11/05/2025 6:57:48 AM PST by MtnClimber
The establishment’s supposed love of democracy ends exactly when democracy—as expressed by the popular vote—stops loving the establishment.
And so, with the AfD looking increasingly likely to gain power in one or more German states after next year’s elections—especially in Saxony-Anhalt, where it recently crossed the 40% mark in a regional poll for the first time—mainstream figures are preparing to make it as difficult as possible for the party to govern. That is, if they can’t simply strip the AfD of its hard-won power altogether.
Politicians are considering destroying documents before the opposition enters office, and even handing state power to (mainstream) federal officials. And they are so convinced of their righteousness that they don’t mind discussing these options in public.
SPD Bundestag member Sebastian Fiedler said over the weekend that “if the scenario becomes reality after all and the AfD achieves an absolute majority in a federal state … we have a massive security problem!”
The Democrats can prevent it.
He added, “I’d rather hit the delete button” than hand over sensitive data—such as police and domestic intelligence information—to “extremists.”
The AfD has, of course, seen through this phoney ‘pro-democracy’ rhetoric, responding that when officials “openly toy with the possibility of breaking laws to combat an undesirable party, that is not protecting democracy, but rather yet another abuse of democracy by the SPD.”
Party spokesman Ringo Mühlmann added that far from being a “trivial offense,” withholding or deleting data would be a flat-out crime.
But this hasn’t put officials off. In fact, some have gone further, with Junge Freiheit pointing to discussions around the possibility of an AfD-run state government being stripped of its power “for the first time in the history of the Federal Republic,” meaning the state would instead be governed by a representative of the federal
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The left has already created Germany’s “massive security problem” with their immigration policies.
And its refusal to lustrate former Communists and treat the hard left no differently than the neo-Nazis.
“German Establishment Willing To Commit Crime To Limit AfD Ability To Govern”
Hmmmm...sounds familiar 🙄
The SPD could just gather all the state documents into the Reichstag building in Berlin and then set it on fire to protect German democracy from the people’s will.
The files they delete will be the ones that implicate themselves, plain and simple.
not sure if they as bad as the autopen guy?
Definitely part of the globalist plan.
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