tma_sierrahills: Don't Mention the Politics - 'Merkel´s party is everything and nothing at the same time ... [an] all embracing political machine.' (In saving the West from the third-world invasion, instead of Charles Martel, we have a man who identifies with the Third World and a woman who is the genial mayor of Europe, who would combat the onrushing Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by negotiating safer equine speed limits)

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Don't Mention the Politics - 'Merkel´s party is everything and nothing at the same time ... [an] all embracing political machine.' (In saving the West from the third-world invasion, instead of Charles Martel, we have a man who identifies with the Third World and a woman who is the genial mayor of Europe, who would combat the onrushing Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by negotiating safer equine speed limits)

DON'T MENTION THE POLITICS

Manuel Ochsenreiter

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"Merkel Gets Biggest Victory Since Kohl’s Reunification Vote" - this was the news headline of Bloomberg. And at the first glance it seems correct: Angela Merkel's party – the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) – got 41.5% of the votes. The Social Democrats with their candidate Peer Steinbrück only received 25.7%, not even close to Merkel´s tally. The Greens took 8.4%, and the post-communist Left Party 8.6%. Merkel´s former coalition partner, the liberal FDP failed to reach the 5% threshold needed to gain representation in the Bundestag, getting just under the "magic number" with 4.8% of the vote. The new Eurosceptic party "Alternative für Deutschland" didn't manage to get 5 percent either.

On the night of the election, we witnessed kafkaesque scenes at the victory party of Merkel's CDU, with the leading staff of an outfit, typically described as “conservative”in the international media, clapping hands and singing along to a song of the left-wing band "Die Toten Hosen" (the Dead Trousers). The general secretary of the CDU, Hermann Gröhe, in particular was afflicted with an embarrassing case of "dad dancing."

German and international media have been referring to the "great victory" of Angela Merkel, both celebrating it and expressing concern about her "new power." Some international journalists have asked the question why "the Germans" love Angela Merkel so much. Others have started analyzing how conservative the Germans are – after all they voted for the "conservative party." To say it frankly, everything, from the "conservativeness" of the CDU to its "great victory," is not quite what it seems to be. . . .

http://alternativeright.com/blog/2013/9/28/dont-mention-the-politics