Without talk radio, without evangelicals, without African-Americans and race based politics, without a conservative philosophy but with Rinos.
Think of a place in which there is something going on akin to the Donald Trump phenomenon in America in which a populist movement is emerging stimulated by a very real and constantly reported refugee problem. But there are two factors to consider: first, the entire society has been preconditioned by the understandable re-action and revulsion about the Holocaust to be phobic about racism and is therefore conditioned to collect clothing and food and send it to Romania when they were in need and to accept refugees today when they see pictures of dead babies in the sand. This conditioning is more extensive than in America in my judgment.
Second, this "populist" movement is tainted and tangled with a peculiar and paradoxical admixture of leftism to the effect that America is the author of all the worlds problems (evidenced by the idiocy of George Bush especially in Iraq) and American deviousness is a Wall Street problem but Wall Street is controlled by Jews.
America's bringing the world to the brink of war with Russia over Ukraine and that is being organized by billionaire Jews on Wall Street. I say this resembles our populism in America if we simply subtract the anti-Semitic element.
This anti-Semitic stirring a very minority view but it is whispered about by my neighbors. They do not see European passiveness next to Islamic aggression in the mid-east, for example, as a contributing cause to the refugee crisis. They see George Bush's invasion of Iraq as the cause. They do not even consider Obama's precipitate withdrawal as an efficient producing cause.
I describe all of this to demonstrate that there is a whole different matrix of political alignments in Germany that we Americans do not understand. It is as though there were only a Democrat political party in America which shares power with Rinos and every issue is understood in that context.
Now comes a demagogue, Jim Messina, who follows the path of the Obama administration in interfering in the internal elections of our allies, such as happened in Israel without success, but which exploits the most base of motives of men, prejudices which progressives profess to disdain. Messina's contribution will be technological apparently, the question is whether they can match the culture to the numbers. Messina and the rats were very successful in doing that in Ohio and claimed the election against Romney there. They understood the culture. Just because one acquires access to data doesn't mean they can combine that successfully with the culture of Germany.
Does one see the irony here, the Americans who are blamed for the woes of the world because we allegedly meddled in the mid-East, are now meddling in the German election claiming that the problems which Germans believe are caused by Americans for meddling (not for leading from behind) can be cured only by removing Merkle because she is a puppet of America? It escapes everyone that just as Obama is trying to transform America, so is he trying to transform the world. He is nearly as opposed to German nationalism as he is opposed to American nationalism which he sees as the great obstacle to the one world socialist nirvana. The irony exists and will always exists with these leftists so long as the issue is never the issue.
Mussina might not have a deep understanding of the culture but he does have the devil's own insight into the dark side of the human psyche.
