EVERGREEN: GERMANS STILL GOOSESTEPPING INTO THE ABYSS.

Here’s the underlying article on the German Website Bild, published by Berlin’s Axel Springer SE (which purchased Politico and Business Insider in the US), translated in rather clunky English by Firefox, but you get the gist:

Bizarre muzzle agreement in the Cologne local election campaign! CDU, SPD, Green, FDP, Left and Volt have signed on the initiative of the association “Kölner Round Table for Integration” not to speak negatively about migration during the election campaign.

This so-called “fairness agreement” of the parties (the AfD had not even been asked at first) stipulates that “migrants, migrants and refugees must not be held responsible for negative social developments such as unemployment or the threat to internal security”. Basically, the parties signed that the election campaign “not at the expense of people living among us with a migrant background.”

Consequence: The only relevant party in the Cologne election campaign that addresses negative aspects of immigration is the AfD.

“That our parties are so stupid …”

“It is a tactical stupidity not to fill topics and to leave them to the AfD,” says political scientist Werner Patzelt about BILD. He is speechless “that our parties are so stupid that they don’t see the tactical disadvantage and that they are so weak on their chests that they don’t see that they themselves damage our democracy by not wanting to talk about important issues.”

As David Frum quipped in 2018 about the first Trump administration, “If liberals insist that enforcing borders is a job only fascists will do, then voters will hire fascists to do the job liberals won’t.”