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Liberal policies don't work - Angela Merkle


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2016 Jan 26, 8:19am   4,904 views  17 comments

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/17/angela-merkel-german-multiculturalism-failed

Germany by claiming the country's attempts to create a multicultural society have "utterly failed". Speaking to a meeting of young members of her Christian Democratic Union party, Merkel said the idea of people from different cultural backgrounds living happily "side by side" did not work. She said the onus was on immigrants to do more to integrate into German society. "This [multicultural] approach has failed, utterly failed," Merkel told the meeting in Potsdam, west of Berlin, yesterday. Her remarks will stir a debate about immigration in a country which is home to around 4 million Muslims.

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1   MisdemeanorRebel   2016 Jan 26, 8:28am  

She said that 5 years ago. Apparently she flopped again.

2   Tenpoundbass   2016 Jan 26, 8:42am  

Yesterday I read that she was the president for the Communist party of propaganda and misinformation in college. Her job was to create mayhem and tension between political groups so that Communism could step in and save the day.
This stunt She's pulling on Germany, isn't much different than the stunt Ben Bernanke pulled on American economy after the crash and bailout. They both knew that it would infuriate the majority of the Citizens and create winners that had no businesses winning at the expense of others. While both deployed schemes that they hatched when they were young dumb and idealists, policy that no sane minded adult elected or appointed to a position would enact. Unless they were incompetent, or intentionally set on destroying the economy or society. They are both governing like impulsive 18 year old punk kids. Oblivious to any consequences.

3   RC2006   2016 Jan 26, 8:45am  

Its ok she will be the first pushed into the oven when shit flips over there.

5   curious2   2016 Feb 3, 1:59pm  

Tenpoundbass says

Her job was to create mayhem and tension between political groups so that [her party] could step in and save the day.

"With Agitation and Propaganda you're responsible for brainwashing in the sense of Marxism," he said. "That was her task and that wasn't cultural work. Agitation and Propaganda, that was the group that was meant to fill people's brains with everything you were supposed to believe in the GDR, with all the ideological tricks. And what annoys me about this woman is simply the fact that she doesn't admit to a closeness to the system in the GDR. From a scientific standpoint she wasn't indispensable at the Academy of Sciences. But she was useful as a pastor's daughter in terms of Marxism-Leninism. And she's denying that. But it's the truth.

On Sunday evening, Merkel said she hadn't covered up anything about her past. "I can only rely on my memory," she said at a public screening of her favorite movie, a popular love film made in East Germany, on Sunday night. "If something turns out to be different, I can live with that.""

I had never known about that part of her biography, but it explains a lot. When the communists were in charge, she was a communist. Now, she's a Christian "democrat."

She was never a liberal though, and her claim that multiculturalism failed is an oversimplification; to a large extent, she is causing it to fail. You could have multiculturalism including Buddhists, Sikhs, really any number of people who can get along with each other, and it would work. The problem is Islamic doctrine rejects multiculturalism and democracy, using them merely as tools to enter a multicultural democracy and conquer it, like a virus infecting a cell and turning the cellular machinery against itself.

There are good ideas and bad ideas in the world. Good ideas include the Enlightenment, the scientific method, and the Internet, because they make people better off. Bad ideas include leaded gasoline and hydrogenated fats, because they make people worse off. Islam is a bad idea because it makes people worse off. In fact it subordinates people entirely to an imaginary deity: it doesn't matter that the jihadi reduces himself to piles of scattered guts on the street, and does the same to his fellow humans; all that matters is he did so in service to the big bad idea, Islam. Instead of analyzing ideas though, most people seem to run with slogans.

Over time, if allowed to compete, good ideas tend to displace bad ideas. Islam persists because it does not allow competition: once it takes over an area, apostasy and blasphemy become capital crimes. That makes it fundamentally incompatible with enlightenment democracies that allow different ideas to compete.

You could make similar theoretical claims about the Vatican, imagining that their doctrine is either a substitute for humanity or even superior to humanity instead of serving actual humans. You could cite historical examples including the Inquisition and Galileo, and other religions, but they would prove mainly that religion and government don't mix: church and state should be separated. Meanwhile, the empirical evidence suggests though that Islam differs fundamentally from the religions that allowed the Enlightenment, partly because Islamic doctrine requires the imposition of Sharia law.

The problem isn't multiculturalism, which Merkel seems never to have believed in anyway and is now apparently trying to scapegoat. The problem is Islam.

6   MisdemeanorRebel   2016 Feb 3, 2:09pm  

It emerged that Helmut Kohl, who used to call her his "Maedchen" or little girl, had been putting donations into a secret slush fund which he'd used to reward his friends.

Nobody seemed prepared to confront Kohl but Angela Merkel refused to follow the pack. In a front-page piece in a leading conservative newspaper, she denounced her former mentor and called upon him to resign. It was a stunning act of political patricide and set Merkel on a trajectory towards the top of German politics.

"One of the things people don't always understand about her is she's… actually a ruthless political operator," says Jonathan Powell, who got to know her when he was chief of staff to the UK prime minister. "The way she dealt with all of her rivals in the CDU was extraordinarily Machiavellian from that point of view. She would get rid of them in a switch of an eyebrow."

Angela Merkel became chair of the CDU in 2000 and Germany's first woman chancellor five years later.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24159595

By the way, this is exactly how she got to high positions within the DDR Communist Youth organizations - by becoming a right-hand woman of a leader, then "rumors" would appear, he'd be replaced, and she was promoted from second-in-command.

7   lostand confused   2016 Feb 3, 5:46pm  

it all makes sense now. Multiculturism failed, so she is inviting millions of jihadis-so Germans can adapt to the immigrants ways.

8   reggie   2016 Feb 4, 2:38am  

Multiculturalism doesn't exist peacefully anywhere in the world when it's imposed on people.

10   mell   2016 Feb 22, 8:46am  

thunderlips11 says

It emerged that Helmut Kohl, who used to call her his "Maedchen" or little girl, had been putting donations into a secret slush fund which he'd used to reward his friends.

Kohl did many shady things but that he had the intuition to reunite asap when the opportunity arose may trump everything else and leave him in a positive light (without that though he'd been a shitty chancellor). If the social democrats had their way, Germany would still be debating on how to reunite and combat potentially rising nationalism.

thunderlips11 says

Angela Merkel became chair of the CDU in 2000 and Germany's first woman chancellor five years later.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24159595

By the way, this is exactly how she got to high positions within the DDR Communist Youth organizations - by becoming a right-hand woman of a leader, then "rumors" would appear, he'd be replaced, and she was promoted from second-in-command.

Merkel has a shady DDR past and everybody knows it. Still she did well initially an then suddenly sold out the country by opening the flood-gates and embracing censorship of negative opinions of her immigration and EU policy.

13   Shaman   2018 Aug 20, 9:44am  

If you really want to go down the rabbit hole about Merkel, there is a well-formed conspiracy theory that Merkel was one of a batch of children conceived from frozen Hitler sperm. It’s easy to find stuff about this. What’s hard is proving them wrong...
15   CBOEtrader   2018 Sep 6, 12:42pm  

"This [multicultural] approach has failed, utterly failed," Merkel told the meeting in Potsdam, west of Berlin, yesterday.

This is more harsh than anything Trump has ever said. Where are the leftists calling Merkel a racist and nazi?

Or perhaps she has a point?

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