The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) stole huge amounts of votes off the established political parties in elections in central Germany, while a small neo-Nazi party won 17 percent in one district. […]
This result made the AfD the third largest party behind Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), who won 28.2 percent and 28.0 percent respectively.
Good news.
Why oh why oh why do the media keep calling the Nazis “right wing”. Does National Socialist Workers Party sound right wing to anyone but an ignoramus?
Regardless of the parties names or affiliations, it looks like at least some Germans are waking up.
Do you mean the party that nationalized the transportation system ,the steel industry , the car industry and the arms industry? That non socialist acting party ?
Duh !
And the American press will be similarly “surprised” when anti-ILLEGAL-immigrant party of one, Trump is elected POTUS. There is only so much the people of any nation can take … before they revolt. They may follow their leaders to the edge of the cliff, but a majority of them will NOT jump off.
File under: More Pavilions at OcktoberFest.
Police blame rise in drug crime on refugee crisis
Law enforcement have said that they are too stretched dealing with the refugee influx to effectively fight drug dealing, after figures showed a surge in drug-related deaths in 2015.
http://www.thelocal.de/20160307/police-blame-rise-in-drug-use-on-refugee-crisis
probably for the same reason some in here identify kristianity and rightwing politics as one and the same. People have limited capacity to differentiate the two.
I am astonished Merkel’s lot get any votes at all.
Liberals in America think that Teflon Don has already jumped off that cliff.
http://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2016/03/RAMclr-030816-trump-IBD-extra.jpg
Watch what happens when he lands on his feet..
Quote: Benno Hafeneger, a professor at the Philipp University of Marburg who specializes in right-wing extremism, told The Local that the AfD’s success was due to “a search for fast, easy answers”.
Oh so learned. Oh so full of it! The fastest, easiest answer is to remove quislings like Herr Hafeneger from any position of authority. The very issue of what it means to be German is at stake. And no, people are not going to accept the idea that being German means living in a certain geographic region of a multi-national state, with all the attendant government benefits that entails. National identity is more than a collection of loyalty cards. Something about culture and heritage gets in the way.
People have accepted, Soviet fashion, the ever-increasing intrusion of the government into their daily lives, dictating how they should behave, how they should think. Someone please point out the differences between the New Soviet Man and the new, post-modernist progressive (good luck!).
This might have continued quite a bit longer, rather like the old parable of the frog slowly being boiled alive. But the influx of the Muslim emigres has shattered the slow march to serfdom. Between their own governments and the Islamification of Europe, people are staring at the extinction of their cultural identities. The somnambulate frogs are starting to wake up.
Herr Hefeneger had better hope that all that happens is that more “right-wing” parties get democratically elected and that European policies begin to change. The alternative is more than just a new Kristallnacht, redux. Civil war is brewing in all regions of Europe.
“Why oh why oh why do the media keep calling the Nazis “right wing”.”
That’s easy…… marketing. Just like studies that inconveniently defy the MSM’s narrative often come from “right-wing think tanks”.
And to NME, talking of marketing, I share your frustration with watching evangelicals hijack “conservatism” as their own. Many of these people are so extreme, they don’t even try and conceive differing opinions from fellow conservatives, they simply brand all others as leftists and dismiss those opinions outright. How little a mind it takes to sit in a mental bunker, surrounded by sandbags of echoing opinions and ammo cases of old and tired talking points, then deflecting ANY and ALL new incoming contrary information as LIES. I see SJW’s and Evangelicals as cut from exactly the same cloth, in this respect.
To that end, I’m sure most of us have been wondering how conservatism has taken such a shit-kicking in NA these past decades. Well, we can’t blame it ALL on the media and schools.
Maybe some of it’s because too many of those evangelicals who are close-minded and self-righteous(ha, they are actually practicing the far right’s very own form of PC bigotry)keep yelling at the fellow conservative-minded who either don’t like guns, are homosexual, are non-christian, enjoy marijuana, etc, etc, etc, etc, that they and their views are not welcome. For the record, I welcome ANY gay, atheist, pro-abortionist, stoner or muslim for that matter, who wants to help in reigning in the left’s out-of-control government spending, bureaucracies, debts, taxes, etc, etc, etc.
I yearn for the day that western society learns that both the faaar left and faaar right are where most of the delusional crazies that want to control personal freedoms and tell everyone else how they must act, reside.
“For the record, I welcome ANY gay, atheist, pro-abortionist, stoner or muslim for that matter, who wants to help in reigning in the left’s out-of-control government spending, bureaucracies, debts, taxes, etc, etc, etc.”
Paul Martin, as Chretien’s Finance Minister, balanced the budget and eliminated the deficit.
Was he a conservative? No.
There is much more to conservatism than just money issues.
“There is much more to conservatism than just money issues.”
Absolutely true, but social issues are ALL MOOT if we have NO COUNTRY left in which to discuss them.
Amen (pardon the pun) to both of you!
Yes, Trump, UKIP, and the rise of other “far-right” movements, and on the left, Bernie Sanders, are just signs that many people in the Western world are fed up w politicians, academics and SJWs screwing us over. That German egghead – what a joker! Simple, easy solutions? Yeah, to problems created by him and his ilk.
Two years ago, I’d say it was far-fetched to imagine bloody unrest and civil war in Europe and perhaps America (Canadians are too flaccid; 300+ years of doing what we’re told does this to a nation). Now I smell blood.
The socialists will continue to marginalize growing numbers of citizens angry with their unequal and unfair treatment. The left only has to worry when the money runs out…
Germany needs a big wall through the middle, they could put all the socialists and immigrants on one side and all the conservative christians on the other side. Let’s see how that plays out after a generation or two.
The German Minister of Labor recently said that 75% of the ‘refugees’ are incapable of finding employment in a modern industrial economy. They are not literate in their native tongue (can neither read nor write). How can they possibly become competent in a foreign language.
Bongo suggested on 60 Minutes that Canada got to pick and chose the refugees that are coming here. Guess ours wont come with he same handicap that the Germans find themselves in.
As for the state of the country (Canada). The Conservative brand is for the most part dead. The election of bongo has sealed it’s fate. His old man started Canada down a very progressive road – one we have chosen not veer very far from.
Bongo will now attempt to finish what the old man started. Canada is now more like Europe than it is the new world. If the Brits choose to leave the EU in the June vote, Canada could easily step in and take their place. The euro trash would welcome us with open arms. A seamless transition.
“The German Minister of Labor recently said that 75% of the ‘refugees’ are incapable of finding employment in a modern industrial economy. They are not literate in their native tongue (can neither read nor write). How can they possibly become competent in a foreign language.”
I know many of these so-called ‘refugees’ are only claiming to be Syrian, but considering all the experts governments have working for them you’d think that they already knew that the average national Syrian IQ is 83 before they even thought about whether these people could fit into the economy or not.