When we pointed out that the influx of illiterate, unskilled, culturally and religiously alien, people who could not speak German was bound to create unemployment among Germans, we were dismissed. When we said that a potential statistically critical mass, much less than 50%, of ethnically or religiously alien immigrants meant that the relative power of the political parties in Germany would be forever upended when block voting to the left began, we were met with incomprehension. When we said that it meant that the left wing (that is to say even more left-wing than the left of center right wing) in Germany would rule and Merkel was giving away the power of rural people in rural Bavaria to govern themselves to a new coalition modeled after that which was currently happening in America, we were dismissed as right-wingers and perhaps even racists. Any association with Donald Trump made it easier for rather naïve Germans to render our arguments and even us ourselves illegitimate.
The article is dead on when it describes president Barack Obama as a rock star and recounts the virtual unanimous dislike of Donald Trump. I am happy to report that much of the idolization of Barack Obama has dissipated. Germans now almost to a man recognize the absurdity of granting him the Nobel Peace Prize on the come. But the visceral dislike of Donald Trump, incessantly stoked by the media, has hardly abated. I have often found it ironic that while I was being banned on Free Republic as a "never Trumper" I was courting social opprobrium here in Germany because I so fervently supported Donald Trump; often a very lonely business.
I am also pleased to observe that the initial surge of good feelings (perhaps more accurately described as self righteous feelings) immediately in the wake of the mass immigrant admission into Germany has dissipated and has now been replaced with a far more realistic and far more skeptical reaction. For example, in a neighboring small town where we do our grocery shopping a German woman was murdered in the supermarket parking lot with her two young children witnessing the whole ghastly deed done by a knife as an "honor killing" because the woman had abandoned the Muslim faith for Christianity. This in a rural town where a break-in or an automobile accident is big news so one can imagine the general reaction. The man on the street has now had it with Chancellor Angela Merkel but he is still reluctant to fully embrace the Alternative for Deutschland Party because of its neo-Nazi taint. Once the counter forces attach this label, as it has been attached to Donald Trump, it is very difficult in Germany to get past the Nazi label just as the Democrats in America are so often successful in stopping Republican or conservative ideas by shouting "racist." To make the puzzle even more inscrutable, many Germans later said that they were afraid to make public utterances against Muslims or even against immigration as a concept and were certainly afraid to write on the Internet to that effect because they feared the government was watching. Yet the same people who have so profoundly changed many of their views still hold stubbornly to their left of center polestar especially their opinions generally about America and particularly about Donald Trump.
The Germans acknowledge that Brixet is the direct and proximate result of Merkel's overreach in 2015. When reminded, they will also associate the advance by parties on the right in Italy, Hungary, Greece, Austria and even in Germany with immigration but they will simply not approve of the wall in America nor will they approve of Trump personally. In general, they are unaware of his domestic policies except as caricatured in the left-wing German media. They are confirmed climate alarmists because they have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in this new form of German patriotism so they thoroughly disapprove of his withdrawal from Paris. They have been taught that war is evil evil and so unjustifiable that they cannot understand Trump and Korea or Trump and Iran and they have no intellectual curiosity beyond their snap conclusions.
I have had time to ponder these disassociations but can come to no answer other than The Frankfurt School in Germany and America and John Dewey in America have had their way. The more we educate, the less we reason. The education establishment is birthing generation after generation of left of center graduates who enter all sectors of society, especially the media and now the courts, meaning there is no top down solution to this wave which has built itself from our feet up. I see it in my grandchildren who are educated in America in fine universities and I see it in my teenage daughter here in German Gymnasium who came home from school one day a confirmed vegetarian.
A top-down solution to a grass-roots problem is unlikely to change enough hearts and minds either here in Germany or in America. To expect one man to do so is to expect a lot.
