2024-01-23
In response to the farmers' protests and the success of the AfD, the German government has mobilised their own response - counter-protests!
As an an example of double-think it surely takes the biscuit, amounting as it does to "let's take to the streets to defend our democracy against the opposition party that has too much support and will wreck our democracy".
"Failure to support ruinous government policies is thus by definition contrary to democracy and ought to be illegal"
So only the governing party is to be considered democratic? The rest are all wreckers and populist upstarts? If nothing else it should enable savings on the costs of running elections ...
Just to make sure the press are also playing their part:
" ... the farmers have not left the Street of 17 June in Berlin; they and the truckers and tradesmen continue their action, but the press will only report on the anti-Right demonstrations and so it is as if they don’t exist"
Sounds almost like home, except that in the UK, those who rule have taken the precaution to ensure that the opposition parties all support the policies that matter, and those that don't simply and inexplicably fade away ...
Euggypius reports from Potsdam.
