Angela Merkel’s ruling CDU party has been beaten into third place by an anti-immigrant and anti-Islam party in elections in a north-eastern German state, partial results have shown.
The Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) party took about 21% of the vote behind the centre-left SPD’s 30%.
The German chancellor’s CDU was backed by only about 19% of those who voted, according to the partial results.
The vote was seen as a key test before German parliamentary elections in 2017…
This is humiliating for Angela Merkel – not least because this was on home turf. Mrs Merkel’s constituency is in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.
This election – which was seen as a significant test ahead of next year’s general election – was all about her refugee policy. For a year she’s insisted ‘Wir schaffen es’ (we can do it) but German voters aren’t convinced.
Meanwhile, German Youth are turning on her as well:
The German branch of the anti-mass migration Identitarian youth movement occupied the iconic Brandenburg gate to slam the migrant policies of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The hipster-right Identitarians accomplished perhaps their biggest and most spectacular protest in Germany Saturday, unfurling a banner on Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg gate that read, “secure borders, secure future.” The group managed to scale the landmark on Saturday afternoon and claim that they did so to protest the Federal government of Angela Merkel.
This is all creeping along the scale toward K, in times of peace and ease. What we are waiting on is the collapse. Nothing will trigger anger and real K-selection in everyone like being without food, and watching loved ones suffer.
As the Chinese note, anger is the emotion of action. And we have a lot of anger coming
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