Moving Germany on its Axis

JLH has translated a hostile MSM article about the recent AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) convention in Stuttgart, and followed it with his own sardonic commentary.

The translator includes this prefatory note:

From the STERN, which is a kind of wannabe BILD, an attempt to alert the Gutmenschen to danger forming on the Right. After taking some typical jabs (boldface and noted after the translation), the author seems more able than most leftists to perceive what is going on here, even if he sneers at it.

The translated article:

Right Populist Convention: The Culture Warriors

At its convention in Stuttgart, the AfD took up the question of power. The party wants revenge for the defeat suffered by the rightist and nationalist camp at the hands of the ’68ers.[1]


Frauke Petry and Beatrix von Storch at the AfD convention

AfD conventions are a special experience. Riot police by the hundreds, crowd control barriers, water cannons, plus the thrumming of police choppers permanently circling over the locale of the event. An atmosphere of civil war and street fights hangs over everything. There is a kind of justness in this. The party — which thrives like no other on being outcast, and not infrequently on resentment — feel themselves outsiders whenever they assemble, as on the weekend in an exhibition hall at the Stuttgart airport.

Is this party actually hoping for civil war? Probably not, for now, even if its lead warrior, Björn Höcke, likes to say that the AfD is “the last chance” before an uprising of the people against the hated elites in the partisan system and the media.

AfD Takes Up the Question of Power

However — The AfD is putting the question of power more aggressively than ever before. “Majorities can change” cried the chair, Frauke Petry, with a threatening undertone in the convention hall. That is the first insight to be gained from Stuttgart. Inspired by the successes of other right-populists in Europe, as most recently in Austria, the AfD sees itself on the wave of a new-right spirit of the times, which can eventually beach them somewhere where they will be able to move Germany on its axis to their own point of view. It no longer sees itself as a nihilistic party of disgruntled elderly row-house residents. They see themselves as on the way to the levers of power.

Second insight: This party has a tremendous, you might call it uncanny, vitality. When over 2,000 party members — not as is usual in other parties, previously selected delegates — travel here, to spend a full two days in a chronically overfull hall, arguing and voting about a program of principles. That — even if the contents of the program may often be repellent — is political engagement and direct democracy with a stamina and an intensity such as has not been seen in Germany for a long time. In Stuttgart, people could be found who had been thoroughly politicized in the process. There were many of them. They will not disappear quickly from the German political scene.

The third insight, and probably most important insight: This party’s issues will not fade. After the alleged “asylum hurricane”, they are calling Islam out, for “not belonging to Germany”.

AfD Wants a Culture War

The real, background theme of the AfD is: We want culture war. We want a different Germany. The hall as-good-as exploded when co-party chief, Jörg Meuthen shouted: “We want an end to the Left-Red-Green diseased ‘68er Germany.”

With that, Meuthen, like no other, identified the soul of the party. AfD is the organized attempt to reverse the historic, painful, embarrassing defeat of the bourgeois right and German nationalists associated with the leftist emancipatory movement of 1968. It wants a rematch.

The AfD is animated by the feeling of having since then been strangers in their own land. So every gender equality official, every leftist-tainted social studies teacher, every editorial with Red-Green sympathies attracts the contempt and fury of this party. The basic feeling of alienation toward the patterns of discourse and values left behind by the ‘68ers, which even Helmut Kohl’s “intellectual-moral turnaround” was not able to reverse, can vary infinitely in ever newer themes: from “gender insanity” to “multiculti”, from the euro to too many anglicisms allegedly endangering the German language.

The AfD Functions in West Germany as in East Germany

That is why AfD functions in West Germany exactly as in East Germany. In the West, AfD adherents have the feeling that the Germany they could believe they were brought up in, was taken away by the Leftist-Green spirit of the times without their opinion being asked. In the East, they have the feeling that they have never even really arrived in the post-68 Federal Republic.

Next year’s national election could be an exciting spectacle. The AfD wants a cultural revolution — from the right. And those who changed the country from the left will have to defend the changes. What a reversal of roles!

History sometimes has strange endings in reserve.

Note:

1.   The leftist agents of the “march through the institutions” beginning in 1968.
 

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The party wants revenge

What we on the left call “justice”.

Is this party actually hoping for civil war? probably not, for now…

But sometime in the not-too-distant future, they will spill out onto the streets waving their torches and pitchforks.

its lead warrior, Björn Höcke,

Cue slide show of Frederick Barbarossa, riding to an unjust Crusade against the peace-loving Muslims, and meeting a just end by drowning in a river in Anatolia.

with a threatening undertone

Fortunately, the tone gives it away, because the words don’t.

they will be able to move Germany on its axis

They almost seem to expect a “march through the institutions”.

It no longer sees itself as a nihilistic party of disgruntled elderly row house residents.

Send them back to their hovels!

After the alleged “asylum hurricane”

Yeah, it was really just an influx of warm air.

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And if you will excuse me, I include the passage in italics, because I don’t think I’m the only who identifies with it in my own country.

The AfD is animated by the feeling of having since then been strangers in their own land. So every gender equality official, every leftist-tainted social studies teacher, every editorial with Red-Green sympathies attracts the contempt and fury of this party.

16 thoughts on “Moving Germany on its Axis

  1. I have said this before. We patriots of the- still free- West need some ground to work from. As i have my base in Holland- which is left wing-islamo infested beyond repair- i say we all go to France and seize it with all our might.

    Why France? Well. I like the food and i like its nucleair weapons even better.
    I want our hands on the force the Frappe first! We need to [indiscreet suggestion redacted] and rid our lands from the 68 left/islam axis.

    • Dont get me wrong. I cheer our AFD brothers in Germany. And i love to see them seizing power in Germany. Thing is. The German patriots are way behind the rest of us. Sort of.

  2. What kept you so long America to stop the neo-progs long march through our legislative, judicial, academic and executive institutions that make us who we are? Let us take back our country! It’s past time!
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  3. The AFD blog is spot on. Majorities can and will have to change. For far to long the SILENT majority has kow towed to the multiple minorities endless demands on their societies who, despite their constant whining are not being persecuted. Common sense has flown out of the window. In the UK there is now a college in the UK demanding sanitary waste bins in gents toilets for “men who menstruate”, someone has decided that gender doesn’t exist so you can be gender fluid, men who ” identify” as women can now choose which facility they wish to use, the no border idiots who openly defy the law and incite illegal immigrants to riot, the gay communities supporting the Islamic invasion, who would happily kill them all should they achieve a majority status, and so on.
    Yet dare to speak up against any of this nonsense and you are immediately branded extremist, racist, nazi, homophobic, right wing etc. I am reminded of the childrens fable The Emperor’s New Clothes, it took a little boy to point a finger and shout ” he hasn’t got any clothes on!” Before the citizens eventually regained their wits! What we need is many fingers throughout the EU to be pointed at the corrupt politicians such as Merkel, Hollande, Cameron and others’ whose naked contempt of the citizens they supposedly represent, threatens the destruction of the whole European continent!

  4. Was the air of civil war sparked by the delegates themselves or by the controlling powers who purposely sent riot police and helicopters, perhaps hoping for a riot?

  5. “unjust Crusade against the peace-loving Muslims” What delusion lmao!

  6. “In the UK there is now a college in the UK demanding sanitary waste bins in gents toilets for “men who menstruate”, someone has decided that gender doesn’t exist so you can be gender fluid, men who “identify” as women can now choose which facility they wish to use….”

    Dear Lord. This is ghastly.

    • It’s going to get worse, Cynthia, as children are bombarded in their govt schools with propaganda about sexual identity. So do you know the difference between transgendered and transsexual? The whole process devoted to fragmenting and fissioning “identities” so that there will be more and more groups but fewer and fewer members of your group that you can “identify” with and create your small miserable ‘safe space’ where there are no people but those who are like YOU.

      I haven’t believed in the devil since I was a kid. But some of the social arrangements being called into existence by our cultural mavens feel demonic to me…while I’m at it, so does that clueless pontiff.

      • It’s more divide and rule strategy against the population. I suppose it’s also helpful to keep people as separated from reality as possible so they can’t figure out what’s really going on.

        With the existence of the Internet making it more difficult to control communication, perhaps it becomes even more important to be more forceful in pushing unrealistic beliefs on people.

    • Last night I came home to a ringing phone. It was an opinion poll. A recorded voice asked me questions and I responded by pressing the numbers on my phone. It seems that the purpose was for our local Member to find out whether her natural consistency supported a road lengthening in the outer reaches of the electorate. At the end I was asked if I’d tell them if I ‘identify as male, female, or other. For male, press 1, for female, press 2, for other, press 3.’ Worse than the third option to me was the verb. I’m female. I AM female. I don’t ‘identify’. I am. (Sorry, folks, but I’m having visions of the burning bush telling Moses, ‘I IDENTIFY. Tell them I IDENTIFY has sent you.’)

      • In most cases I am in favor of the truth. It’s simple and easy to remember. But with polls of any kind I lie, lie, lie. Would’ve pressed 3 myself, just because. In fact there is an example in the Christian scripture that’s not exactly taqiyyah, but close: when Christ tells his followers not to “throw pearls before swine”. Polls are swinish indeed.

        • I think I agree with you, Dymphna. But if they ask me my gender, I sound as unmistakably male as I am.

          • That makes it even more fun. One of the newer sacred cows is gender identity. You are what you say you are. I am a…umm…transpired indeterminate genderfied third, once removed. Just say “TIGTOR”. Good enough.

            Seriously, though, when it’s a live person and not a robot, I identify as an Episcopalian.

    • You know that the next thing that men who choose to identify as women are going to insist on is sleeping in women’s dorms, using female locker rooms , showers and changing rooms, ladies dressing rooms in stores etc. This will not end until the sexually obsessed remove all traces of morality from humanity and men have a free for all with ‘liberated’ women. Ghastly? ‘Ooooh you discriminating prude’ they scream.

  7. Ya know, I’d like an end to the Left-Red-Black-Green America birthed in the Silly ‘Sixties and Sillier ‘Seventies, too.

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