Why doesn’t Merkel take a firmer position on the immigration crises? It seems this is what the people want.
This is debated from time to time in Germany. I tend to think three things prevented Merkel from ever having written policy.
1. She’s not a true political figure...she’s a scientist-turned-professor-turned-politician. She’s never actually managed anything in her life...never been a mayor...governor...etc.
2. The intellectual crowd that runs Germany always saw immigration, asylum, and refugees as one single ‘color’ or concept. So they lumped the war-time Syrians/Iraqis into one bucket that was considered special. Once done, the Afghans and Pakistanis also jumped into the bucket. The Eritreans, the Africans, the Tunisians, the Moroccans, etc....all jumped into the same bucket. This intellectual could not view ten different groups and write a simple code to affect each group applying.
3. Finally, there was a massive public relations game played by the German public TV crowd (ARD, ZDF) and they sought to demonize anyone taking an opposite view in 2014 and 2015. You were ‘stupid’ if you opposed the Merkel plan (which was non-existent). All of this came to an end on 31 Dec 2015...in Koln, with the thousand-odd police reports turned in with groping and sexual assault on German women that night. The public TV news crowd was forced back a step or two. By Feb of 2016, it’s obvious that major actions have to occur.
So, we get to the only Merkel-invention...paying ‘baksheesh’ to Turkey’s Erdogan to hold back refugees from floating across to Greece. But she couldn’t pay it via Germany. So she went to the EU and convinced them to pay 3-billion Euro a year in ‘baksheesh’ to Erdogan this way. Don’t ever go to a German and suggest this bribe deal...they will go nuts. But it’s the ONLY thing that stopped the million refugees a year from coming to Germany.
I would add this as well...part of this whole story goes back to the 1.5 birth-rate issue (since the 1970s) and the fact that the 82-million German population is steadily decreasing. I think some of the intellectuals now believe this immigration thing is the only way left to hold the population at a certain level. Add to this...the guilt-trip thing still left over from WW II.
My final comment....all of this leads to an odd coalition trap because the FDP (one of the two partners discussed in this next government)...is demanding a Canadian-like program for immigration involving ‘points’. This will really go a long way in fixing the program....but I have doubts that Merkel herself....of the Green Party (to be partner number two in this coalition)....will agree to the ‘points’ program.
Merkel represents the interests of the EU, not German interests. Therefore, she's committed to an internationalist ideology where borders and nations are obsolete and need to be abolished. To oppose the mass invasion of Europe by Third World savages would be in violation of one of the central dogmas at the core of globalism.
It isn’t a crisis to her.
It is an opportunity to sacrifice Europeans to hordes of homicidal savages.
That is something that she wants.