A person is a reflection of their culture, of what they believe and how they live their lives. A bridge between the past and the future, between time and space and needs to try to keep them in harmony, less they become unbalanced. Not to be aware of the past and give it due consideration in the building of the future can distort the future. Neither is it wise to sacrifice your future because you choose to live in or as if you are in the past. One World One Human Race One Destiny (OWOHROD)
Tuesday, 26 September 2017
GERMANY'S FEDERAL ELECTIONS - THE ELECTORATE HAS SPOKEN, WITH MANY VOICES. PART 2.
The challenge for her and her yet to be formed coalition, is that of whether she will be able to make them a sufficiently attractive offer.
Without having to make compromises which, not only her coalition partners will find unacceptable. But also significant portions of the German people who are fearful of the growth potential of the AfD.
The Alternative Fur Deutschland might not be Hitler's National Socialist Party, but the latter also had small beginnings, which it cunningly used to inveigle itself into power.
Of course, the AfD and its leaders are no Hitler and his cronies, and the former Reichstag is not the Bundestag.
However, both Hitler's Nazis and the AfD have key sentiments in common. Including the fact that both spoke of and/or are speaking the language of 'Germany for the Germans'.
Having experienced and/or being made of the atrocious reign of Hitler and his Nazis, the majority of Germans are likely to be fearful of the AfD and its potential.
If not its ability to foment, nurture and unleash xenophobia within them. Germans have to be vigilant and very aware of their compatriots who would seek to offer them 'quick fix ideological solutions' to their problems.
Especially when the solution is targeting particular ethnic, national and/or religious groups. The alarm bells are rightly set off when that happens. And they have been set off by the rise of the AfD.
But, you know what? I might actually be good for the German people to be made aware of the level of appeal that the AfD has among them.
Just like how the French General Elections enable the French to get an appraisal of the support for the Front Nationale among the French people.
Once you know the size and strength of your adversity, you can better plan how to try to neutralise them.
There is also the fact that, there are times when achieving power, in this case, Parliamentary power, can be the biggest threat to the credibility of an obnoxious political party.
There should be no chance of the AfD repeating the machiavellianistic and brutal strategies and tactics which Hitler and his henchmen used to subvert power in pre-war Germany, into increasing their power now.
To be continued.
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