20 thoughts on “The Party is Always Right”

1. The part about “welded by Stalin” was particularly evocative.

   They don’t make songs like that anymore.

   • At first, I thought that it was a parody, then I realized that… it’s real!
     The Party Song is real. Ouch.

     Now, if someone can please tell me, the Justin Trudeau calendars (printed in China!), are they meant as a joke, or are they meant for fans? I’ve never been able to figure that one out, either.

2. What is it with a certain percentage of Germans that they believe in totalitarian governments?

   • No different than millions of Democrats.

3. The song’s tune is a bit catchy, I think. I wish I could roll my ‘r’s like that. I’ve only ever achieved it once in my life and that was entirely by accident.

   I thought a couple of the scenes in the clip looked like they were from downtown Leipzig.

4. Got me to remember that other toe-tapping, happy-go-lucky German favorite, The Horst Wessel Song (Lied),

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst-Wessel-Lied

   • Horst Wessel lied?
     I thought that he had always told the truth.

     • “Lied” [leed] is “song” in German.

5. Twice in the last century Germany, acting from the right, brought Europe to the brink of destruction. Now, early in this century, Germany, acting from the left, is bringing Europe to the brink of destruction again, but this time there will likely be no saving it.

   • I’m not trying to be overly picky here, but too many people still seem to labor under the impression that Hitler and the Nazis were right wing, politically: they were not. Nazi meant “National socialists”; though he hated Stalin and eventually went to war with the USSR his political views were actually rather close to those of Stalin: for instance, he believed in the power of the State (as a good Leftist is wont to do) and that consequently, the individual was essentially valueless.

   • From the right?

     His party was the National Socialist German’s Worker Party. Take out the word German and Obama or Clinton would have joined in 5 seconds. Bill and Barry Sotero would have joined after their respective heads of household.

6. Your introductory remarks were spot on, Baron. The Communists didn’t disappear, or retire gracefully to the sidelines. They just stopped calling themselves Communists.

   I’ve been convinced for a long, long time that the glasnost and perestroika nonsense were simply the latest ploy in the biggest disinformation campaign of all time.

   • A ploy? May very well have been so – but somehow went out of control I think.

     Why I see it this way? – countries of the former Eastern and Central Europe, for decades vassals of the Soviet Empire, ascended to full democracies and as of now are actually bastions of the Western values – values that are disappearing in the Western Europe by the month.

     But you brought up an interesting point regardless … I never thought about it from such a “conspiracy” viewpoint.

     • But is it ‘out of control’ ?

       There is SO much that could be written on that … but space here does not permit.

       I am a great admirer of the ‘vassal states’ you refer to, and suggest that it is precisely because they had first hand experience of living under the jackboot that they ‘know the enemy,’ and are now the most courageous opponents, and the least likely to be duped : they’re not falling for the propaganda – they’ve heard it all before.

       They are also the nations on the periphery of Europe, the Schengen border countries, and still have in their national historical memories the experience of being on the frontlines against Islamic invasions. So no sympathy for the globalist’s baloney there, either.

       But these countries are not the nerve centers. Moscow, Brussels, London and New York (and perhaps Beijing, and Riyadh) are where the action is. The EU and the UN. The WTO, IMF, etc.

       Virtually every time the Soviet Union got into disastrous economic straits, from 1917 onwards, it pretended to ‘reform,’ and ‘moderate,’ … and was bailed out, by the West. With the ‘collapse’ of thirty years ago Western capital, and ‘capitalism’ came flooding in. All the Western useful idiots at lower levels migrated seamlessly and effortlessy into the ‘Green’ movement. (See esp. Prof. Antony Sutton’s “National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union,” a 1-volume summary of his massive 3-volume, 1500 page “Western Aid and Soviet Technological Development.” Also Prof. Carrol Quigley’s “Tragedy and Hope.” And of course Diana West’s more recent book, “American Betrayal.”)

       Virtually everything the much-maligned anti-Communists of the 1950s and 60s had warned of was vindicated when much of the Soviet archives became accessible. The globalists very briefly acknowledged that, but carried on as before. Only a tactical tweak or two needed. No need to change the Grand Strategy.

       • Thank you.

         “(See esp. Prof. Antony Sutton’s “National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union,” a 1-volume summary of his massive 3-volume, 1500 page “Western Aid and Soviet Technological Development.”)

         The one volume summary is available as a free PDF download.

7. I’ve talked to a number of retired counter intelligence types of my acquaintance over the last few years about Merkel.

   From what they’ve been able to get as far as information goes, Merkel’s movement patterns before the Berlin Wall came down were those of an agent runner, and not a Stasi internal security agent runner, but of spies in Western Europe.

   And funnily enough, it was the records of those parts of the Stasi that were concerned with their external operations that weren’t recovered after the Wall went down.

   They got most of the records on the internal operations and low level Stasi types in East Germany, but very, very little on the high level external operatives and nothing on their active agents.

   So Germany have themselves a former Stasi agent runner as Chancellor. Way to go.

   • I appreciate your sharing this information with us.

     My impression is that the actual provinces of the former East Germany are the most resistant to Merkel’s invasion strategy. It was far more difficult to survive in East Germany than West Germany, so the East Germans, although under the totalitarian boot, were actually less inclined to be agreeable.

     This brings up the question to me of whether Merkel is an actual acting agent of someone, or if she simply is employing the tactics of the espionage master to eliminate her opponents and bend the situation to her will. Certainly, the most undisputed generalization about Merkel is, her power does not derive from her brilliant eloquence.

     A bit OT, Hillary expressed admiration for Merkel as a role model, which seems about right. Hillary’s power is derived from her proximity to a real President, while Merkel scratched and kicked to power on her own. Merkel can really eliminate opponents, or even friends who are merely in her way. Hillary is relegated to screaming fits and making life miserable for the military men and security agents unlucky enough to be assigned to her.

     Perhaps Hillary’s real claim to fame is the total destruction of Libya and the rise of ISIS in Syria.

8. I’ll make the leap and infer that the MDR is a state-supported, state run news operation.

   That makes the bureaucrats totally beholden to politicians and other bureaucrats. The common feature of bureaucrats is, they don’t want a problem as they pursue their tenure on the road to a rich retirement. The communications bureaucracies are funded through tax dollars, given involuntarily, so the actual consumers of their products are irrelevant unless they make enough of a noise that it threatens their position.

   So, it makes perfect sense that the negative emails are more important to the director than all the positive emails. They represent potential trouble.

   It seems to me the executives of the huge mega-broadcasting companies, and the huge technology companies, act more like government bureaucrats than like entrepreneurs. The revenues of Amazon, Google, Twitter, etc are not really going to be affected all that much by unhappy consumers who, nevertheless, flock to “free” services. But, the real negative impacts come from the governments of even third-rate mudholes like Pakistan or the unhappy dictators of China.

   Anyway, the psychoanalyst himself didn’t have a whole lot to say that was original. Psychoanalysts, on the whole, are vastly overpaid and overrated. Milton Friedman probably 70 years ago observed that you can have a welfare state or an open immigration state, but not both.

   Plus, Maaz had the brilliant idea of taking billions of Euros from Germans and shoveling it into third world countries to create prosperity. I suppose it never occurred to him to leave it with the people who earned it and if they choose to send it to sub-Saharan countries, well and good.

   We are creating conflicts through this kind of policy. Our exceptional conditions will become such a burden that it will break and won’t function any longer. All the energy used during this “welcoming culture” and all the billion of Euros that are needed could have been used to create economic fairness in this world which would naturally sustained these people far better in their own countries and be used to reduce poverty . That would be the necessary changes as far as I am concerned. 

   Again, if a psychoanalyst ever bothered to research any ideas outside his own field, he would see that actual economists studying the third world know that foreign aid devastates the local economy by undercutting the local farmers, craftsmen, and businessmen.

   • In your opening assessment of the MDR I caught myself thinking : “Wait a minute, is RonaldB describing the German MDR, or Canada’s CBC … ?”

     • Both.

       I was just guessing, but MDR is part of the public broadcasting network, financed by mandatory license fees collected from each household (taxes in other words). You can’t get much more state-supported, state run, than that.

       I would be surprised if a government run by a (former?) Stasi intelligence agent (spy) would tolerate much of an independent voice in German communication media.

       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitteldeutscher_Rundfunk

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