The rout of German chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party in Berlin election on Sunday was a bit more than polls initially projected.
Final results show CDU gathering only 17.6% of the vote.
A reader from Germany described the CDU meltdown and fears in a “Postcard from Germany”.
Dear Mish,
With 17.6% of the vote, the Berlin CDU is in meltdown. This adds to their panic. Regional MPs in Germany usually enjoy the gravy train for an unlimited period. If you lose, you move to a cushy job at some charity, trade union, local energy provider etc. Those happy days are about to end for at least some of them. This is a big fear.
In East Germany, the pushback against Merkel’s immigration policy continues. Take the town auf Bautzen, where young male refugees have enjoyed the pleasant summer weather getting drunk in public, shouting abuse at local people until the small hours. Even the mainstream media admits that. The police did nothing. So a number of right wing youths got organized and confronted the refugees. With predictable results.
Expect more of this in the future. Even at the local level the authorities often act like “little Merkels”, applying the rule of law not universally or equally. The public debates overlook this worrying aspect. But many people sense it.
In Munich, the Octoberfest kicked off with a y-o-y 50% drop in visitors! Landlords blame bad weather, but in a recent online poll by a local paper 36% of those asked said they would not go because of the terror risk.
Kind regards,
Alexander
Lie of the Day
The lie of the day is related to the German election: Merkel Accepts Partial Blame for Berlin Defeat.
One day after her conservative party got hammered in Berlin’s local election, Chancellor Angela Merkel took responsibility for the loss. She also said there would be no repeat of “uncontrolled” immigration.
In her first news conference after her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) recorded its worst-ever showing in a Berlin election, Merkel took partial responsibility for that defeat while again blaming opposition to her refugee policies on communication shortcomings.
“I’m the party chairwoman, and I’m not going to duck responsibility,” Merkel told reporters. “If one of the reasons for the CDU’s poor showing is that the direction, goal and conviction behind our refugee policy haven’t been explained well enough, I’ll endeavor to rectify that.”
Merkel Duck’s Responsibility
Merkel allegedly took partial blame for the result on “the direction, goal and conviction behind our refugee policy”.
Actually, she did not even admit that. Rather she stated that “if” her policy was not “explained” enough, that she would “endeavor to rectify” the problem.
What a stinking pile of rotten fish.
Merkel’s inane policy is the problem, not her explanation of it. Her conviction is perfectly clear. And it’s equally clear German voters cannot stand the stench.
In another superficial statement, Merkel said “If people are saying that the situation of uncontrolled, unregistered immigration should not be repeated, then I’ll fight for that not to be repeated. No one wants that situation, and neither do I.”
Well la-di-da.
Once again, please note the word “if”. And in this case, please also note the words “uncontrolled” and “unregistered“.
There is no “if” about any of this. Voters are tired of massive migration, controlled or uncontrolled, registered or unregistered.
Her careful inclusion of words like “if” and “unregistered” into key sentences show clear intent to hide the truth.
Merkel does not give a damn what voters think or what problems she has caused.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
All failures of governance are blamed on the ignorance of the people they claim to serve. Any German who attempts to push back against their calamity deliberately placed upon them is labeled an extremist, a Nazi, and considered an enemy of the state (which is probably the most accurate thing they could say).
At this point many of us are finding we are enemies of the state. Our media is telling us to vote for Trump is ignorance bordering upon insurrection.
This is NOT going to end well anywhere in the world. We have justified or at the very least rationalized violence in Muslims, blacks, Hispanics and just about every other non white, non Christian, non heterosexual groups everywhere. This blatant vilification of anything perceived as “traditional” has reached the limit of its tolerance.
They have lit the fuse…knowingly. All they care about is power. They feel fully insulated from its blow back as they have developed governmental agencies to support them, but more importantly they have the media….a media fully prepared to establish right from wrong and properly place blame.
Chancellor Merkin seems to be suffering from a God Complex.
Or the allah complex…
The problem, according to Merkel, isn’t that the policy is stupid or suicidal. It’s that the program hasn’t been *explained* enough. So she’s going to explain it some more. Not change it. Not cancel it. Just explain it in small words so people can see it’s actually a genius plan. See? There. Brilliant solution!
The German “people” are just not smart enough to understand her enlightened point of view. Once they have come to accept that their welfare should automatically come second to the interests of those who despise them and want them dead, they will finally grasp it. Maybe just a little more indoctrination and indignation will do it.
She learned it from Obama.
I wonder what Alexander meant by “organized and confronted the refugees”? I’m sure there’s a few gated community “events” out there that would render better results.
In Bautzen (an historic small city way over in East Germany, east of Dresden, not far from the Polish border) 20 “unaccompanied” drunken refugees minors (so much for observant refugees) decided it would be a good thing to go to a particular square in the city which is a hang-out place for “right wingers”. There were about 80 people there. The “locals”, as the mainstream media refer to them, called out that that square belonged to them. Then the young refugees threw stones and bottles at the until then peaceful group. This is what the police reported and was reported on in the German mainstream media.
When the police came the refugees attacked the police with thrown bottles and wooden slats. The police responded with pepper spray and batons.
http://www.mdr.de/sachsen/bautzen/schwere-aussschreitungen-in-bautzen-100.html http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2016-09/bautzen-minderjaehrige-fluechtlinge-alkoholverbot-polizei http://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/vermischtes/ausschreitungen-bautzen-100.html sorry, they are all in German
Now they’ve put in place a 7 pm curfew and alcohol ban for the young refugees. The drinking age in Germany is 16 for beer & wine and 18 for liquor.
The article mentions that on the Friday before this incident that the young not-so-observant drunken teenagers had already run about in the town.
I tried to find an article at Der Spiegel English website but couldn’t find a single report! http://www.spiegel.de/international. I even tried a site specific Google search and could find nothing. In German at Der Spiegel I could only find one video report that begins with a smaller incident a few nights later when the “locals” engaged in their own name calling. Der Spiegel is THE weekly magazine in Germany–equivalent to Time in its heyday. I guess they don’t want their English or German readers to know what’s going on.
The German people are just too orderly. When we were over there my wife and I watched in amazement while groups of German pedestrians stood on a street corner at 11:30pm for several minutes during a torrential rain storm without a car in sight for the light to turn green so that they could cross the street. Soaked! It was fascinating to observe. What a learning experience for us!
Until the Germans get over that mindset they’ll be at the mercy of evil politicians who will ruin their both their culture and their lives.
I believe it was in the book “Lords of Finance,” discussing the revolution in Germany following their defeat in WWI. Apparently during the chaos of the revolution there were riots near the palace in Berlin. The book describes how the rioters still obeyed signs telling them not to walk on the grass. That insight into the character of German people has stuck with me even though I read the book several years ago.
Well at some point you actually can’t get any wetter.
German president confidently telling the interviewer that the elites are not the problem, the people are the problem. Jawohl, Germany is one special place.
If I remember correctly, the Germans scored highest on the Milgram test.
Germany’s moderate rebels, freedom fighters, or Bautzen citizens wanting a good night’s sleep, whatever you want to call them have little choice in the face of tyranny invited in or sponsored by their central government under their female leader impersonator. But the real problem that is generating the influx of drunken immigrants is USA.gov and the Neo-con War Machine which is stirring up the pot and fomenting global warfare. Once Hillary and the Neo-con War Machine gets bounced out of Washington or the USA dollar collapses under a mountain of debt, whichever comes first, the citizens of Bautzen and Syria will get closer to a quiet night. The real wonder is that no one is capable of making that connection. The Mainstream Media has done it’s Brain Numbing well. Vote Brexit and Trump.
Immigration is yet another bank bailout. Bankers confiscate the poor’s food by printing food inflation, and the desperate poor immigrate in search of food.
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.
Please do not attribute the berlin elections outcome to Merkel and the refugee problem alone.
Berlin, the city, has a number of problems of it’s own. The melt-down of public services (lageso being the most visible example), the subway and the s-bahn, the unfinished airport, gentrification, prices, riga street and so on.
If the refugees had been the #1 problem, the AFD would have been much stronger, and we wouldn’t have seen a FDP revival, for nobody would choose FDP to protest against the refugee politics.
CDU and SPD got a well deserved kick for doing absolutely nothing of relevance, though i have to admit that i do not understand why they still got more than 10% of the votes.
Merkel should just come out and say, “Let them eat bratwurst!”
Mish, as you can see from the results, only 14% of the votes went to AfD. So – leaving “other” votes apart, almost 80% voted for the established block parties that have driven Germany on the brink of desaster. I think it was Einstein who said “Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.”
“One day after her conservative party got hammered in Berlin’s local election,…”
‘Conservative’. That’s rich.
Oh, yes. Politically sensitive Germans would never protest immigration policy by voting for an opposition party rather than AfD. No. They would go straight Nazi, day one. Yawn.
The germans who want to protest against the immigration policy certainly know which parties not to vote vor. That is, nobody would expect the majority of the greens to oppose immigration, nobody would expect the FDP to really oppose it (that party too often sacrifized the parties goals for government membership), and absolutely nobody would expect our left party to oppose the immigration policy on a fundamental level.
The funny thing is that there is more oppostion against the immigration policy in SPD and CDU/CSU than in Greens/Left.
So yes, to vote for a change in immigration policy you’d have to vote for AFD or the far right parties. Which may be a not so good idea, if one happens to dislike the rest of these parties plattform.