Posted on 06/28/2026 12:07:13 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Everyday life has become a pressure cooker. The question is when that pressure cooker is going to blow up, and what forms that explosion will take.
Two dangerous trends are coalescing in Germany: the deterioration of private life and the tyrannization of politics. The latter comes to light in the persecution of any political opinion marginally different from that of the government.
Private life deteriorates under pressure from a stagnant economy with its withering welfare state. Unending tax hikes are coupled with the erosion and increasing unreliability of social benefits.
There is another aspect of the regress of private life in Germany. In a rare tour behind the official German media façade, journalist Liv von Boetticher tells of a police force in deep moral decline, of runaway crime, and of law enforcement institutions more concerned with suppressing political viewpoints than stopping crime.
The report by von Boetticher, low-key as it is, offers a frightening example of the forces behind European societal disintegration. Originally published in Die Welt on June 19th (where it appears to be inaccessible from the U.S.), this story is comprehensively covered by U.S. news site Breitbart:
The journalist said she was prompted to come forwards [sic] with what she’d learnt after noticing … officers told a very different and unvarnished account of Germany after official interviews had finished and the cameras stopped rolling.
Let us stop and think about this for a moment. Germany is now a society where police officers feel a need to put watertight walls between what they say in public and what they really think and believe. In a free, open society, with a thriving democracy where people live in peace and harmony, police officers do not feel the need to dichotomize between their official and unofficial views on work and life in general.
If a police officer in a democracy is dissatisfied with something, he knows he can go to his superiors and—without fear of retribution—express his opinions. He also knows that if he ever felt a need to discuss the state of his profession in public, he could do so, and his opinions would be met with respect and responsibility.
This is no longer the case in Germany. Liv von Boetticher uncovers a frightening suppression of opinion within the police force—and a precariously tone-deafGerman government. The most loyal state servants, the ones who are saddled with the duty to uphold law and order, have had their professional and personal lives so curtailed that they can no longer point to the grim, even sickening reality in which these police officers work.
Back to Breitbart:
Having given the official line their jobs may depend on to be taped, afterward they related what [von Boetticher] called “stories of fear and anger, violence, loss of control, and failed migration policies, and the feeling among law enforcement officers of often being abandoned by politics and society.
In what she describes as a “pretty much unanimous opinion” among police officers in every state in Germany, the nation’s thin line of law enforcement believes that Germany “is disappearing,” that the government has created “open season” for serious criminals to go about their business, and that—according to many of them—Germany as a country is “lost” or “finished.”
Ihave no reason to doubt their account of how crime runs rampant in Germany. It is a clockwork-reliable consequence of a society where politics is dominated by Marxist conflict theory; since police officers are deemed by said theory to represent power, law enforcement needs to be suppressed for the ‘liberation’ of the ‘oppressed’—the criminals.
To that point, is not this dissatisfaction with high crime just the usual complaints from politically right-wing police officers?
It is not. As von Boetticher explains, these are the views of police officers who have survived “a decade-long effort” by the German government to eliminate national conservatives and patriots from the ranks of law enforcement. Suppression of speech and of privately held political views includes an open ban on anyone sympathetic to conservative-nationalist AfD from being a police officer.
In other words, with AfD trending to become the biggest party in Germany, the men and women who have survived the political purge within the ranks of police are politically more leftist than Germany’s voters are. Despite this, they hold opinions that—if even hinted at officially—would cost them their jobs and possibly a lot more.
It takes a lot for people with leftist political views to concede that they were wrong. Therefore, when these viewpoints seep out of Germany’s politically sanitized police force, the deterioration of society has already gone beyond the point where normal police work would be effective—even without its politically correct restrictions.
What we have here, plain and simple, is a country where the government is nullifying its own law-and-order system. It is a country where freedom of speech is increasingly curtailed and where the practice of Berufsverbot—a ban from the workforce—from last century’s anti-terrorist campaigns has been revived.
This is the same country where Nazis and communists aggressively oppressed anyone with a dissenting view.
To put it bluntly, German history is fertile soil for seeds of totalitarianism to set roots and grow—and to do so with the blessing of those who claim to be fighting that very same totalitarian ideology.
All this political suppression is taking place over the heads of a population whose ability to feed themselves is being continuously eroded by Germany’s stagnant economy. The ongoing deindustrialization of the country gradually robs growing segments of the working class of well-paying jobs.
At the same time, unchecked criminal activity creeps increasingly closer to the coveted privacy of a family’s home and everyday life.
The compounding effects of persistently deteriorating economic conditions and increasingly invasive crime call for an outlet, a reaction, a strong and stern expression of public opinion. It calls for fundamental change to a political system that is failing its own people—one that would permit the very opinions that are banned, persecuted, and criminalized by the German government.
In short, everyday life in Germany has become a pressure cooker. The question is when that pressure cooker is going to blow up, and what forms that explosion will take. So far, the nation’s political elite has shown absolutely no interest in relenting: if anything, increasingly hardline political persecution will continue to lead Germany into the dark realm of tyranny.
What we can expect, in other words, is for the German government to ignore the formation of a perfect storm of societal decline. Instead of recognizing the real threats to Germany’s future, the government in Berlin will continue to fight the symptoms of that decline: growing support for AfD, declining morale in police, and perennial budget deficits.
The German elite’s methods of suppression will become harsher and more unforgiving. A government that transitions from democracy and freedom to totalitarianism and suppression of dissent will sooner or later, with eerie predictability, try to dictate the nation’s economy in the same way it dictates politics and public opinion.
At that point, Germany’s political decline will escalate to an economic implosion. At this point, even governments around Europe who are sympathetic to the German persecution of free speech will suffer the consequences of such policies.
It's 1932 all over again.
Germany was having trouble
What a sad, sad story
Needed a new leader to restore
Its former glory
Where, oh, where was he?
Where could that man be?
We looked around and then we found
The man for you and me
LEAD TENOR STORMTROOPER:
And now it’s...
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Deutschland is happy and gay!
We’re marching to a faster pace
Look out, here comes the master race!
...And the stupid Germans believed her when she said the immigrants would take jobs and pay in to the generous welfare system. I am the wrong skin color. All the turds she imported are on welfare and don’t work.
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Consider if Kamala and the wrestling coach had won in 2024. We were on this same path but PDJT has derailed the “progressive” locomotive off the main line for a few years. This will be us if the GOPe (Thune, useless congress critters, et al.) keeps playing footsie with legislation such as SAVE which 80% of the electorate (R + D) supports. We are not in a good place right now.
Barren Angela Merkel did this for her Davos masters.
This is globalist invented lawlessness and crisis after crisis foisted upon the West using Cloward Piven and Saul Alinsky tactics.
Intentionally done to generate confusion, uncertainty and chaos. They need a vacuum created to fill it with their evil WEF planned Digital ID, CBDCs and Social Credit Scores.
Satan is waiting.
The NAZIs said the Communists were the easiest group to recruit from, because they saw the problems as being the same as what the NAZIs saw.
Essentially that was Capitalism.
The NAZIs were smarter, because they appealed to German nationalism.
They did. But the border was further east in those days.
Islam. When you absolutely, positively detest modern civilization and long for the life of a sixth-century camel driver.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.
not a single one of these various interlocking articles mentions that Germany’s energy crisis is largely self-inflicted by their hard leftist governments abruptly shutting down all of their nuclear power plants, eschewing clean coal, and spending the equivalent of hundreds of billions of USD during this century on unreliable, intermittent, and extremely expensive so-called green energy ... which is THE MAJOR factor for their heavy industries fleeing Germany to nearby countries ...
Actually - polar opposites.
Nazis gotta nazi…
Guerilla warfare, deaths, and stalemates. Unfortunately, in the long run, contraception and abortion favors the savages.
I’ll tell you why Naziism and Communism are similar:
They are both Collectivist ideologies
They both support Big Government
They both support group rights over individual rights
They both are authoritarian
They both set up police states that crush dissent
They both oppose religion, expecting people to believe in the political ideology instead
Now you tell me how they are “polar opposites”.
The quality of this film is very representative of Boll’s collective work. After he is the King of bad video game adaptions.
Sadly, the elites have already doomed Germany. They’ve gone for full blown Gaia Worship and their industrial sector is doomed as a result. Their Chemical sector is also doomed. They cannot compete with energy costs which are about 4X of American energy costs. As if that were not bad enough, they also imported millions of Muslim and African military age males and put them all on the public dole. I don’t think a country could be more thoroughly sabotaged than Germany has been - and their birthrate collapsed a long time ago. The country is rapidly aging.
I just finished watching it. Citizen Vigilante is like Death Wish. Its a movie that needed to be made. Armie Hammer does a good job. The problem is the move needed a much better screenwriter. Still, it has cut through because the idiot authoritarians in Germany and other European countries tried to ban it. They insist on learning what the Streisand Effect is the hard way.
Actually very similar to each other.
Please go read the Hayek quote on my profile page.
They are both similar totalitarians.
It does favor the savages, especially when the government favors the savages versus it’s own people.
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