Posted on 05/28/2025 11:09:49 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Parties opposed to the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) continue to block it from exercising its rights—all in the name of stopping “fascism.”
Germany’s self-proclaimed democracy defenders are at it again: blocking a law-abiding party from exercising its rights—all in the name of protecting democracy.
The Alternative for Deutschland (AfD), a pro-free market, anti-EU, anti-mass migration party, placed second in Germany’s recent parliamentary elections, earning nearly 21 percent of the vote to the top vote-getter’s, the Christian Democratic Union’s, 28 percent. The AfD placed well ahead of the once-dominant Social Democratic Party (16 percent) and the Greens (11 percent).
By longstanding tradition, the AfD should have been allotted committee chairmanships and vice chairmanships based on its February vote share. Doing so would have meant that the powerful budget, interior, and finance committees, along with three other committees, would have been under AfD direction, giving it the possibility of shaping legislation. But in a reversal of what is normally an automatic affirmation, on Wednesday, May 21, the other parties in Parliament voted down the AfD chairmanships and put those six committees in the control of other, often less popular, parties. The far-left Die Linke (the Left) party, which had garnered just 9 percent of the parliamentary vote, was awarded two chairs.
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The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a pro-free market, anti-EU … party …Uh, not exactly. Their manifesto bears some reading.
As free citizens we believe in direct democracy, the separation of powers, the rule of law, social market economics, subsidiarity, federalism, family values, and German cultural heritage, as democracy and freedom are vested in our cultural values and historical tradition. The recollection of the two revolutions of 1848 and 1989 drive our civil protest and the determination to complete our national unity in freedom, and create a Europe of sovereign and democratic nation states, united in peace, self-determination and good-neighborliness.
— AfD party platform, preamble
Minimum wages and the social market economy are closely connected. Minimum wages adjust the remunerative position of low-income workers as weak market players with respect to the interests of employers as strong market players. They also safeguard low-income workers against wage pressure caused by recent mass immigration. Minimum wages enable an existence above the poverty line, and at least guarantee a humble pension, which otherwise would have to be paid for by society in the form of state support. Minimum wages thus prevent the privatization of profits while costs are socialized. It is for this reason that the AfD supports the retention of minimum wages.
— IBID., page 35
We had to destroy the democratic process in order to save it!
With some reading comprehension, you might even understand that they are in favor of free markets. They are complaining that under the current welfare system, businesses’ costs are socialized. Whatever the businesses don’t pay their workers, the socialist government mandates taxpayers pay. Only because of that, they argue, businesses should be who pays what other laws require their workers be paid. Further, the supply of labor willing to work for below what the market would set at fair wages is provided by big-government immigration schemes. If and when the government abandons government-suppressed wages and socialized welfare systems, AfD would support a free market setting wages. But since the free market is distorted so badly, government should not force taxpayers to pay what profits corporations.
Funny how you make this proof by assertion in the face of their actual words. Opus?
German Citizens did Nazi this coming!
Nothing spells "democracy" and "governmental transparency" like legal shenanigans based on a secret dossier. It's why I'd be in favor of life in prison for the progenitors of the Steele dossier.
The BfV’s full name (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz) translates in English as the “Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution”.
But Germany does not have a constitution; instead, it has a “Basic Law”.
And the BfV is a domestic spy agency, dating back to 1950. Three years after their founding, they had the Vulkan affair, where 44 agents were accused of spying for East Germany. Four years after their founding, their chief fled to East Germany, and several former Gestapo members were found in their ranks. They’ve had several other scandals throughout the decades . . .
,,, who be da fascists?
Ah, yes. “Democracy” “Democratic”
The Soviet Union had a “Constitution”
East Germany, officially known as the “German Democratic Republic”
And the democRATS and DemoKKKrats all-time favorite:
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea - that is NORTH Korea for those of you in Rio Linda. Just ask the North Korean engineers, metal workers and ship builders who totally botched their newest warship.
As Hussein stated about the Chicoms: “They just make a decision, give the orders, and things get done.”
The Wizards of Smart that run the German “democracy” turned off over a dozen electricity generation plants because they are nuclear. Does not help in the cold German winters.
But express concern about all this, be afraid of being murdered by invading jihadists, and that marks you out in their news media and government declarations as an "extremist" and a "fascist." What a joke.
German should either be forced to admit AfD on equal terms, or it is tar and pitchforks time. At this point there's not even any reason for any right-leaning voter to vote for an alternative to AfD, because the alternatives are loudly saying their will form coalitions with the socialists and will give over most of their power to them.
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