WWhen I think about German democracy, I think about the ice shelf of Harsen B: a vast structure in Antarctica has been stable for 10,000 years until – within a little more than a month, to the horror of the trauma spectators – it is it Disratory collapsed.
At the end of this week, Germany will go to the polls. The coalition led by the Social Democratic Party on the center (SPD), born in hope, has collapsed, due to the ongoing attempts to constant attempts in The vandalism of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), its members in its young. This last successful effort led to the dissolution of the government.
However, the other two coalition parties are also calculated – the vegetables, who have failed to express a convincing vision enough for a future with clean energy, and SPD itself, whose voting declined by 10 % and its leader, Olaf SchoolsThe advisor, was mostly invisible like his predecessor, Angela MerkelIt was imposed.
After I lived and worked in Germany for 10 years, I long understood Merkel’s period as a deviation in national policy. Despite all its disadvantages, she took a step of rare and historical courage, and welcomed a million Syrian immigrants because they fled the dictatorship that was bombing their schools and hospitals. However, this step was a party among them, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who could not now stay away from itself enough quickly. It is amazing that when Bashar al -Assad was overthrown late last year, the instinct of newspapers and politicians in Germany was not the first to celebrate Merkel’s role in saving the Syrian spirits. Instead, it was an attempt to determine the speed of all of these Syrians can now return home.
Meanwhile, CDU, the leader in general, responded to the country’s greatest challenge with Pettines or though. Kai Wegner, when he chose the amazing capital of the capital under the weight of the exaggerated housing Never use a gender neutral language When in the office.
Although the country is facing A severe shortage of migrant workersIt seems that the leader of CDU, Fredchich Mirz, the waiting advisor, seizes every available opportunity to trample the same people trying to attract them to his nation. Poorly, in September 2023, he noticed that the Berlin region is with a large group of immigrants “Germany was not”. This was, even for him, a low point.
If there is room for optimism, we can find it in Linke Die, which has He rose in polls Thanks to the campaign that focused On the daily difficulties of citizens. While the vegetables and CDU have mostly settled on positive but mysterious slogans, the extreme right went to Returning emperors’ toneLinke, who dies from the far left, has faced the biggest problem in asking people about their home bills and suggesting taxes on wealth. This concept is the novel We can see them win enough sounds to return to the Bundestag.
But the campaign controlled it The far -right alternative to Germany (AFD), whose speech was shamefully and enthusiastically adopted by their supposed peers they are more enlightened, and who was accompanied by the rise. Violence explosion. In late 2023, members of the Great Party planned were arrested Violent deportation of millions of peopleNot only immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, but anyone who does not consider them German enough, including German citizens born in Germany.
For fear of a general violent reaction, these politicians and their wealthy supporters were so secret that they only contacted each other through the message. They do not need very anxiety. Although their reconnaissance numbers decreased slightly in the wake of this, They are now standing in about 20 %As the second most popular party, with Those plans for mass violence against immigrants – It is called “Remigration” – at the center of their campaign.
However, the hatred of foreigners in the far right is not on the sidelines of German society: it can be found in voices in its center. The highest sound like this is Mirz. After two deadly attacks by the immigrants on their citizens – the first by a “anti -Islam activist” who drove a car to the Christmas market in Magdburg, killing five, and the second was a knife attack by the former Afghan asylum seeker in Affinburg, two killing – seized Mirz for his moment. Instead of calling for the enforcement of the current immigration policies completely and completely sufficient, he did something that no German political party has done since the 1930s: it has been an alliance on a decisive vote with the far right, to push the draft migration law that was contrary to the European Union law. His efforts failed, however Damage. Mirz, at the same time, only his speech escalated, which made An unfounded claim Every day in those looking for asylum in Germany they commit gang rape. With such a language, the alliance with AFD is not as far as critics believe or hope for it – see just everything that appears to be The eternal standards that have been declining At any time at all. Crafts are spreading quickly throughout the German ice mountain.
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Thinking about the last words and deeds of Mirz, and on the wide acceptance of her, I feel that we live in what the technician and writer Emily Forsinski called.The time of cowardsA era when many people see injustice and move away. Everyone Hundreds of thousands Those who have been impressive to the German streets or Discussing rooms To protest the risks of authoritarian rule, there are many who have been silent, whether at their dinner tables, in their workplaces or their collective conversations.
She recently spoke to Jennifer Kamao, for which she works International women’s areaIt is a non -governmental organization based in Berlin that protects the rights of migrants and refugees. It seemed so concerned that after a few days I was still thinking of her words: In particular, immigrants and refugees who saw them through the political spectrum hated even in some traditional traditional spaces.
“We don’t even know who should work with him,” Kamao said. “Every person I feel is afraid. There is a certain energy that you feel when entering a train, even in Berlin … you see the hostility.” If there is no concerted effort To provide a positive vision of migrationFear the worst. She said, “The atmosphere is very pregnant with arrogance and hatred.” “This hate is very large. They cannot hide it anymore.”
Moussa Okonga is author and football is based in Berlin
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