DEUTSCHLAND UND ANGELA MERKEL Elende - LEGACY OF AMERICAN , französischen und britischen Sucht nach einem Regimewechsel !
The Government of the Germany has been having a somewhat torrid time in its showing at the recent couple of local and regional elections. With the coalition government between the Social Democratic and the Christian Democratic Parties increasingly feeling the strain of the opposition to and disquiet both German nationalists and ordinary Germans are having about how their government has dealing with the potential and actual crisis arising from the migrants and refugees who are pressing to be let into the country. And into Europe.
Angela Merkel has been doing her best to remain calm and resolute in her dealing with the crisis, and has been hoping that her country men and women would become emboldened and equally magnanimous in facing off the perceived and actual threat. However, the voting pattern of the electorate is not providing any evidence that her approach is proving successful.
It is believed that fear of a particular danger or threat, can be more potent and harmful than the threat or danger itself. Probably because of the undermining psychological impact it can have, as it plays upon people's minds, and is exploited by those who want to use it as a political weapon.
Yes, there might be Germans who are motivated by fascism, racism and nationalism, in wanting to reinforce their borders and strengthen their immigration policies. But there are probably many more Germans who are genuinely worried and fearful about the significant and lasting impact that more liberal immigration policies, aimed at people from predominantly Muslim countries, will have on their society.
Fear has the power to make rational people irrational, to make people who are normally generous and kind or welcoming, suspicious and unwelcoming. This is not a characteristic of Germans per se, but rather of any people, when they have become prey to fear and uncertainty.
We have seen it in Britain, where it played a significant role in it Brexiting, and we have seen it in France, other European countries, and in the United States
It is the case that people, when confronted by the fear or reality of what they believe to be a dreadful fate, will tend to do everything they can to avoid it, and probably only accept or acquiesce when there is really nothing else they can do.
So, it is understandable that the popularity and support of both Chancellor Merkel and her Government is continuing to take some major hits, which could even lead to it falling at some point in the future, or having to seek additional coalition partners. In which case it could then become even less stable, as it has to take account of more constituent interests. Of course, it is also in the nature of countries of liberal-democratic systems to periodically have changes in the parties forming their governments.
It is therefore understandable and prudent of Angela Merkel to be acknowledging and apologising for what she considers to be some of her tactical and strategic mistakes in managing or not managing the immigration/migrant crisis as competently as she had hoped to do. Even if she is doing so belatedly, whereas some leaders refused to apologise for even bigger errors.
Consider, for example, the catastrophic errors or crimes of former President George Bush, and Prime Minister Tony Blair, in invading and overthrowing the government of Iraq, which, along with that of ex-Prime Minister David Cameron, and President Francois Hollande, in invading and overthrowing the government of Libya, have directly contributed to the woes of Chancellor Merkel and her government.
Yes, there are direct links between the invasions of Iraq and Libya, and the overthrowing of their governments, and the migration and immigration crises which the Germans, the rest of Europe and the United States are now struggling with.
It is probably as fate would have it, that the Germans, who have played a lesser and more cautious role in both invasions, should now be paying as big a price as they are being called upon to pay. Also, that Europe, should Germany become politically and economically less stable, might also have to pay an even bigger price. While America and Britain, the main culprits in both the Libya and Iraq catastrophe, have sofar gotten off quite lightly.
Angela Merkel has been in power now for a relatively long time, so it would not be surprising if she were to find the thought of being relieved of the onerous responsibility of leading her country, somewhat tempting. What she would not want to happen, however, would be for her country to become fractious, consumed by civil disharmony and instability, all of which could have an undermining impact on the future of the European Union. We can therefore expect that these two objectives, maintaining Germany's political, social and economic stability, and the health of the European Union, will be Merkel's priorities, rather that that of her Chancellorship per se.
I believe that she is motivated by more virtuous ideals than some of her detractors, such as the AFD, many of whose members and supporters are motivated by baser but still human motives, and that she, Angela Merkel, does deserve to succeed. Whereas British Prime Ministers and French politicians have tended to be little more than American 'yes men', and have been taken for granted in their support of American adventurism, it appears not to have been so in the case of Merkel.
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