As is already known, the latest parliamentary elections have demonstrated that AfD has become the second largest party in the German legislative. And, as is commonly known and expected, no other German party that has won seats is going to form a coalition with AfD. The same political story as the one in France. That’s democracy made in the European Union. AfD is supported by 20% of the population but never mind such a detail. They are not to be admitted anywhere near the reins of power because… well, because they are allegedly far-right (whatever the term means) and pariahs. Now, this is this famed Western democracy. Every fifth citizen opts for a political grouping and consequently every fifth citizen is spurned, condemned, scorned, mocked – you name it. That’s democracy. You can vote within a certain prescribed spectrum or you are not considered worthy of the attention of the state, the government, the authorities, etc.
Indeed, the Western democracies pride themselves on respecting the rights of minorities: especially of sexual minorities and ethnic minorities. The sexual minorities are very small and yet they have all rights imaginable, and they are respected and protected by the law. The ethnic minorities are so much protected that – as it has again and again transpired – criminal gangs grooming and sexually exploiting white British girls were not prosecuted for fear of inciting inter-ethnic relations. Those Pakistani gangs are not called names – God forbid! But just don’t dare you to vote for AfD in Germany or the National Rally in France! If you do, you are immediately called names: far-right, fascist, Nazi, hater, bigot, nationalist – we know the usual string of appellatives.
Yet, it is a huge chunk of the nation either in France or Germany that votes that way. They do not want to be ruled by the establishment: they want change. Why is every fourth or every fifth German or Frenchman viewed as a pariah? Why is every fourth or every fifth German or Frenchman purposefully denied a share in the respective governments? Why is that scheme called democracy? Why is Belarus or Russia reprimanded for alleged lack or distortion of democracy? As usual, double standards, as usual a speech of a forked tongue.
It is of interest to notice that die Deutsche Demokratische Republik or the German Democratic Republic is still alive. It is enough to have a look at the map of united Germany showing how people voted in particular provinces and all of a sudden the contours of the former DDR emerge in front of your eyes. Yes, AfD is predominantly supported by East Germany, the same East Germany that was a part of the Eastern political bloc and the Warsaw Pact. The fact that the political choice of East Germans has always been and is going to be disregarded speaks volumes. The two Germanies have not been united; rather, West Germany has swallowed East Germany. Rather, the bigger and richer Western big brother usurps the right to dictate to the smaller and poorer brother how he should behave and what he should think. That’s democracy made in the European Union, again. Something that East Germans longed for. Something that East Germans have been blessed with for four decades now. How about that?
How can East Germans be far-right if they – their fathers and mothers – were politically brought up by the left for four decades? How can the sons and daughters of former East Germans be far-right if their parents were politically educated by the Soviet international communist leftist movement? How can East Germans be far-right if their forefathers soaked in all the Marxist and Leninist ideas that the Western elites are saturated with so much? Something just does not add up here.
As noted, AfD has won a significant chunk of the vote, so it will find its way to the German parliament. This fact alone is going to be exploited as proof that democracy is alive and well in the European Union. But hang on for a moment. In the former socialist countries of the Soviet political bloc there, too, were small parties or semi-parties or political groupings allowed to have a number of representatives in the respective parliaments. That was precisely the same kind of proof that democracy was well and alive in the Soviet block. The parliaments in the Soviet bloc had such representatives precisely because…. they had no influence on the policy making. The then West condemned these practices and rightly so, but today it is the West itself that pursues the policies once pursued by the East. Yes, AfD or the National Rally can eventually have a couple of seats in parliament but that’s about it.
