So that was that. The German general election, moved ahead to February after the collapse of the coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and the liberals from the FDP, is over—and everything is likely to remain the same.
This is because the only clear winners of the election—the much-maligned Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)—will be kept out of governing responsibility by the cartel parties who now go by the Newspeak term DEMOCRATS. You must understand one thing about German politics of the last 5 years: in Germany, you are not a DEMOCRAT if you insist on the government’s responsibility to act in line with the Constitution.
Concretely, this led to the irony that in the eleven years of their existence, the AfD had to repeatedly remind the DEMOCRATS that the Federal Republic is, according to its founding definition, in fact a democracy, expressed in a democratic constitution, in which the people are the sovereign (and not Green ministers persecuting social media users for casual online posts of wrongthink).
During this time, in heated Bundestag debates, the AfD’s lessons in democracy spanned a wide range of topics, whether on questions of illegal immigration—the protection of Germany’s borders is a federal law enshrined in the Grundgesetz— or in the matter of government overreach when it came to ad hoc executive orders in direct violation of the constitution during Covid, or in the right to the “free expression of one’s opinion”, as the Grundgesetz phrases it. But the strong-worded pleas of the AfD, and especially of its charismatic front woman, Alice Weidel, to the last two governments fell on deaf ears. Moreover, the AfD has been publicly ostracized—not invited to federal press conferences, given less speech time in television talk shows (if their representatives have been invited at all), shut out from public debates. The lesson: there is no room for dissenters in the society of DEMOCRATS.
There is no room for dissenters in the society of DEMOCRATS.
But the cordon sanitaire or firewall that the anti-democratic “Democrats” built around the AfD did not hold: more than 20% of all voters in Germany marked their ballot for the party—in some East German districts, the AfD won more than 73% of votes.
Friedrich Merz, whose political career is built on the nothingness that streamlined apparatchiks absorb, and whose Christian Democrats have achieved the worst result in the Party’s history—with only an 8 per cent lead on the AfD—has already announced that “no way” will he even consider a coalition with the bad people from the AfD. Clearly, this is a violation of the will of the majority of Germans, who want to see a political change towards the centre-right, quite similar to what happened in the US with Trump. Many CDU-voters counted on Merz’s promise to stop illegal immigration. But on the very day after the election, Merz backtracked and claimed that “none of us wants to close the borders”. Accordingly, Merz said he’d go on with the Social Democrats, precisely the party that was voted out. That means that Olaf Scholz, the most incompetent Chancellor in history, could still occupy a decisive position. Imagine a US election in which the Democratic Party was voted out, like it was—but with Kamala Harris still becoming Secretary of State.
While the will of the majority is safely ignored, Germany remains a tragically deindustrialized, collectivist, and unfree society. The GDRization of Germany, with its new laws of a punishable “defamation of the state”, the dismal state of its infrastructure, especially public transport and schools, and a new aura of collectivist ideology, pervasive since Covid, will not come to a halt.
It will be interesting to see how the DEMOCRATS will fare with their new German Democratic Republic. The original Deutsche Demokratische Republik lasted 40 years and was abolished by its people’s demand for freedom. Let’s hope this time it happens faster.
