Posted on 07/19/2016 5:39:46 AM PDT by SJackson
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“... For his 25 years of speaking, writing and preaching hatred of the Jews, Streicher was widely known as ‘Jew-Baiter Number One.’
In his speeches and articles, week after week, month after month, he infected the German mind with the virus of anti-Semitism, and incited the German people to active persecution.
... Streicher’s incitement to murder and extermination at the time when Jews in the East were being killed under the most horrible conditions clearly constitutes persecution on political and racial grounds in connection with war crimes, as defined by the Charter, and constitutes a crime against humanity.
Merkel’s term ends in the fall of 2017....with a scheduled national election. No, she won’t be running again.
As for the German people? There are five political parties in the national government out of Berlin (plus 40 marginal ‘other’ parties existing in some form around the country). From those five political parties...all are hooked or hinged to the immigration vision set forward by Merkel. No one can get their attention or refocus on this issue because virtually all of the same political characters are handcuffed to Merkel.
So, there’s this sixth national party that is growing in terms of popularity....the AfD. And they are anti-immigration. Naturally, all five of the major parties dislike the AfD and lambaste them weekly. Public-wise, I’d guess polling would put them at 15-percent, and they might run up to 20-percent by the fall of 2017 and the big election.
I agree 100%
Thank you for the informative reply. I don’t really know anything about German politics so this was enlightening.
It is truly amazing that the German people have tolerated this sudden Tsunami of immigration into their homeland and its disruptive effects on their culture. I realize that the Merkel government is probably concealing and/or downplaying the real impacts of the true costs of this invasion and the violence wrought by the immigrants, but by now you would have thought the people would be calling for her resignation. I guess there’s something to the stereotypical view that German people follow orders well.
Merkel and other globalist leaders seem to be able to get away with policies that are both costly and disruptive to their own societies. I wonder what her polling numbers are?
I think there are three simple reasons for the patience or tolerance that you mention:
1. For a country of 81 million, the average refugee/immigration trend up until 2014, was roughly 250,000 a year. They had built their “door” to handle that, and with the exception of the Balkins period, that was the norm.
2. Population replacement isn’t going well. Private foundations, universities and the gov’t all admit that within 25 years...the 81 million population number will shrink to 65-to-68 million. This worries industry, the pension control folks, gov’t idiots, and just about everyone. They can’t fix this, so the logical trend is to accept immigration. Even I would agree...some immigration through a controlled door...is helpful. So they were hopeful.
3. The bulk of society in Germany bought off on excuses and the lame work of the state run news media for months, even when the anti-immigration crowd was trying to hype various issues. All went marginally well in the gov’t favor....until 31 Dec 2015, on New Year’s Eve in Koln. Then “something” hit the fan. With about a thousand women reporting sexual assault around Koln (lesser so in four other cites that night)...then the state-run news media delayed talking about this for about five days...that finished off the general patience of Germans.
Since mid-January....state elections and the big city-election episode across Germany, have demonstrated a trend for AfD (around 15-to-20 percent). They don’t have real money, and they’ve relied upon only five or six decent talking guys to really carry their message. In each state, they’ve got support now.
So we come to your question on Merkel and support now. If you ask about positive or negative feelings for Merkel herself....about 50-percent of the nation is positive, 10-percent neutral and 40-percent either mildly negative or very negative. As a leader, she has shown what you’d call the natural tendency of a professor in a lab experiment....”let’s not rush into doing something hasty”-attitude.
She hasn’t made a bunch of stupid mistakes and had any corruption at all. She hasn’t had to fire anyone because she vets folks and demands accountability.
Up until this past three years....she was considered an outstanding Chancellor (probably second best since WW II ended).
Polling for the six political parties and the fall 2017 election trend: (roughly)
CDU (right-center party, Merkel’s party): 32 percent
SPD (left-center party): 20 percent
Linke Party (former Communist Party of DDR): 9 percent
Green Party: 14 percent
FDP (anti-taxation, responsible spending party): 5 percent
AfD (anti-immigration, etc): 15 percent
The rest are split among 40 marginal parties.
Note within this....as AfD grows, they take votes from the CDU, the SPD, and the Linke Party (strangely enough). Last month, the neo-Nazi Party in one eastern state were standing down now and telling their people to vote only for the AfD.
Here’s the two curious things. (1) The center-right and center-left parties have always had 65-percent to 85 percent of the national vote between them since 1949. If you add up the numbers now...they will barely get to 50-percent. That worries alot of people....the public isn’t voting center-left-right anymore. (2) To lead a gov’t, as the winner in the election, you have to have 50-percent of the vote or form a coalition with one or two partners. With the AfD there, no one will form partners with them, but this is forcing for strange politics when the right-leaning party (CDU) has to partner with the SPD and maybe even the Green Party, to lead the government.
Next big episodes? Two state elections in Sep and Oct. Then you have three state elections in Apr and May of next year. These will all show trends. Merkel is bowing out but it’s questionable what kind of government leads Germany after that fall 2017 election.
Remember....Nov 1932....the Nazi Party only needed 37-percent to win, and after that....nothing worked well again.
Despite deceiving the German people about the true extent of violence against citizens, Merkel still polls around 50%. Its amazing how forgiving some people are, even when their own interests are being harmed.
Political sociology is really a strange phenomena to observe.
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