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Well, fortunately Chicago’s anti-foies gras ordinance has reduced the geopolitical significance of the Strasbourg geese. |
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Written By:
Dave Schuler
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Well, give the NPD credit for one thing: they’re more successful there than the Libertarian party is here. Not a happy thought, but there it is.
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Like the use of the term rustic. |
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Written By:
unaha-closp
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Not a good thing, but we are talking about a state with a population of just 1.73 million people here.
The NPD and similar parties have no chance in the ’Western’ states. For example, the state of Northrhine Westphalia alone has with about 17 million inhabitants a greater population than all of former East Germany taken together together, and the far right had a combined share of the votes oh 1.7 percent (NPD + Repuplicans [Die Republikaner, in German]).
So it isn’t pretty, but it isn’t a huge problem, and also self-containing: Since 1995 1.5 million people have migrated from the East into the Western part of Germany, most of them young women. A lot of the remaining young men have no job skils to speak of and no prospect to found a family, and that goes especially for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The demographic decline there is even faster than elewhere in Germany, so the number of far right voters will decline, even if the percentage of the vote should increase.
Besides, what can they do, even if they could even get a majority there? If we in the West stopped propping up the state, it would collapse overnight.
PS: If you don’t find this comment persuasive you are welcome to storm the beaches at Normandy again.
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Written By:
Ralf Goergens
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http://www.Chicagoboyz.net
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"job skills". not "job skils", of course. |
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Written By:
Ralf Goergens
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http://www.Chicagoboyz.net
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To borrow from Ralf Goergens’, argument - why do we commonly and freely associate economic decline and social decay for the rise of far-right political parties, but not dare associate it with the rise of Islamic fundamentalism? Because one is trying to kill us and the other not? Is that fact relevant to correct causal analysis? |
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Written By:
glasnost
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glasnost,
I think we commonly and freely associate economic decline and social decay with the rise of extreme parties in general, not necessarily only those of the far-right. |
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Jimmy
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...why do we commonly and freely associate economic decline and social decay for the rise of far-right political parties... We’ve all heard about those notoriously right-wing Bolsheviks, right? |
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Jordan
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"... economic decline and social decay for the rise of far-right political parties, but not dare associate it with the rise of Islamic fundamentalism?"
Economic decline implies a formerly prosperous economy, and social decay implies a formerly healthy and happy social structure, neither of which, I submit, are characteristic of Islamic societies. |
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Written By:
timactual
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