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June 1, 2019 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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Inside the Twisted Mind of Angela Merkel
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So Angela Merkel recently did an interview with CNN in which she warns about the rise of dark forces in Germany.
Now to me this sounds a lot like Emperor Palpatine warning about the rise of a rebel alliance within the Republic or his new galactic empire.
Because it seems to me Angela that you aren't directly responsible for the rise of any forces you consider to be dark.
It seems to me that Angela Merkel is the number one contributor to the dark forces that are rising.
It seems that she set the stage, she gave them life, and her refusal to engage with their legitimate complaints is going to continue giving them strength.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said there is work to be done in Germany to face up to the dark forces that are finding mainstream support there and in other parts of the world.
In Germany, obviously, they always have to be seen in a certain context, in the context of our past, which means we have to be that much more vigilant than others.
So the article starts with German guilt over the Nazis and the Holocaust.
Just, of course, it does.
We are, after all, talking to a German politician, so they have to bring up the Holocaust as a matter of faith at this point.
Look, you are not responsible for the Holocaust.
No German alive now is responsible for the Holocaust.
So why are you bringing it up?
As an Englishman who lived in Germany for eight years, I can tell you that the Nazis still have a firm grip on Germany.
And it's only until Germany gets over the Nazis that they'll actually be able to solve any of their problems.
I really am with Oscar Wilde on this one, that the best revenge is to live a good life.
If you don't want the Nazis to dominate your country, stop talking about the goddamn Nazis.
I honestly don't think that the Nazis are particularly relevant to political life in 2019, but according to what I guess we would call the globalist consensus, they absolutely do.
They're the single most important topic in all of history, apparently.
Speaking exclusively to CNN, the day after the European elections, where nationalists failed to live up to a forecasted surge in support, Merkel said that they have to face up to the specters of the past.
Really?
Are you saying that Germany doesn't talk about the Nazis enough?
Is that what we're saying?
We just haven't gone over the Nazis enough.
One more time will do.
Oh, and another time, and another time, and another time.
There's going to be no bloody end to it.
You know, there are other political ideologies than Nazism that might play some sort of role in the future development of Germany.
Just a thought.
We have to tell our young people what history has brought over us and others.
That's right.
Because if you don't indoctrinate fear of Nazism into German people, they're going to become Nazis, are they?
And this is to be Germany's historic curse.
Every generation browbeaten by the sins of their ancestors.
To be afraid that they just are standing up for what they happen to believe in or what happens to be their country makes them genocidal maniacs.
I mean, I don't know how to, I can't believe I have to say this, but there is a point between genocidal Nazism and open borders, destroy our own country, hate ourselves, that maybe is the sweet spot that we should be aiming for.
Maybe, just maybe, there is some kind of middle ground here that doesn't involve wiping anyone out.
We're not going to wipe out any Jews and we're not going to wipe out the Germans.
Perhaps there is a center ground that we can plow that and we can move forward in that direction rather than that way or that way.
Is that a possibility?
In recent days, German Jews were warned by a leading government official not to wear kippers in public following a rise in anti-Semitic attacks.
Addressing the rise in anti-Semitism, Merkel said that Germany always had a certain number of anti-Semites among us, unfortunately.
There is to this day not a single synagogue, not a daycare center for Jewish children, not a single school for Jewish children that does not need to be guarded by German policemen.
And I suppose all of those anti-Semitic attacks came from ethnic Germans, did they?
Nothing to do with anything else about Angela Merkel's policies that we have to be concerned about here, right?
Am I right?
Am I going to finish recording this, get on the Google machine, and find that it's a bunch of people who are not ethnic Germans who are committing these anti-Semitic attacks?
I guess we'll see once I've finished recording this, won't we?
Merkel, who has been the chancellor for more than 13 years and outlasted many global leaders, has shouldered much of the blame for Europe's populist wave.
With some pining that the spike in support for the far-right anti-Islam alternative for Germany on her handling of the refugee crisis.
Well, it seems that that's directly the cause, doesn't it?
I mean, if you're going to open your borders, a unilateral decision by Merkel herself in order to allow millions of people, and they call them refugees, but 70% are not refugees.
And after I had a chat with a woman, a German woman in Bournemouth saying, well, they're economic refugees.
Oh, they're fleeing poverty.
Well, good God.
That's everyone, isn't it?
That's literally everyone in the goddamn world, really, isn't it?
That's all of Asia, that's all of Africa, that's all of South America, who can now, they've got license to flee poverty in their own countries.
They're refugees from poverty.
Absolute lunacy that is going on in the German mind these days.
But yes, it was indeed her handling of the quote-unquote refugee crisis that led to this point.
Because as CNN point out, the Chancellor again defended her decision to allow nearly 1 million refugees into Germany, saying it was the best way to manage immigration in the wake of humanitarian crises like those in Syria and Iraq and not to shut ourselves off from each other, but to be more vigilant about making sure that refugees fleeing these countries are sufficiently cared for.
According to German figures, only 30% of these people were refugees.
Also, according to German figures, it wasn't nearly 1 million, it was nearly 2 million, with small German towns being flooded with these migrants.
This is not something that is just, oh, well, we just can't explain it.
It's just forces beyond our control.
No, it's completely to the whim of Angela Merkel, and she owns this.
She knows she's the one who did this.
She is the one that is causing a rise in anti-Islam nativist populist parties.
It's her policies.
She did this in much the same way that Tony Blair is responsible for doing it in Britain.
They are the ones that caused this.
We can lay this directly on their shoulders.
And in Merkel's case, she is taking the blame.
She's saying, yes, it was me.
Yes, we bloody know it was you.
And now, oh, there's a massive spike in anti-Semitism.
Well, it must be those Germans again.
Those bloody Germans.
They just can't stop hating the Jews.
Yeah, there's no one else on earth who hates the Jews.
No one that you may have let in by the millions into Germany that hates the Jews.
It's just the Germans.
Everyone else loves the Jews.
Just go and watch some Arabic kids' TV.
He bloody loves the Jews on that, don't they?
The Jews on that, if they were Jews or Jews, they would be very good.
Okay, why do you want to become a police officer?
Why?
Like who?
Who is the aunt?
He is a police officer, what do you do with the police officer?
He is a police officer and he is a police officer.
He is a police officer, right?
Yes.
Do you want to become a police officer?
I will become a police officer.
All of them?
All of them, all of them?
Yes.
Good.
In Germany, the Green Party finished second to Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.
The Chancellor said that she was pleased that more people went to the elections in the last European elections, but conceded that the Greens' performance has to do with issues that people are interested in most these days, for example, climate change and also my party, of course, a challenge now.
Well, Germany decided to get rid of all of their nuclear energy, as far as I'm aware.
Yeah.
I'm- I'm pretty sure that Germany is using coal power plants at this point.
Not very environmentally friendly, as I understand it.
But what do I know?
I'm just some bloody backworldsman who thinks that things were better before Merkel was in charge.
Hang on, wait, don't go back that far.
Merkel has been criticized for her reliance on burning coal and barring pressure from German industry, catering to their needs rather than the needs of the environment.
This might seem strange given that Merkel has previously been dubbed the climate chancellor due to her public support for green and clean energy initiatives.
Indeed, she was one of the most vocal critics of US President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord.
Yeah, but all we're saying is Merkel is a giant hypocrite here, really, isn't it?
I mean, if she's the one who's been in favor of abolishing Germany's nuclear power plants and going back to coal power to appease industry, saying, Oh, Donald Trump, how dare you not join our Paris Climate Accord?
Well, who gives a damn what your opinion is?
You seem to be the creature of the globalist, bureaucratic, international business class.
You seem to, in fact, be one of their leading lights, one of their most important actors, which is presumably why you decry populism so much.
Then I always wondered about this.
So, if you're not a populist, what are you?
Well, I would venture to say that perhaps you're an elitist.
In the article, they then go on to talk about her relations with Trump and Obama, and it's widely assumed that she had a great relationship with Obama and has a bad relationship with Trump.
Well, not according to her.
She actually had a bit of a contentious start to her relationship with Obama, and with Trump, she's prepared to deal with him in more pragmatic terms, which, to be fair, is actually to her credit.
As she says, one of the most important decisions that the United States took after the Second World War to give Germany and Europe a chance to actually develop themselves, well, that was achieved with the Marshall Plan.
America has always defended us.
So, it's not that she hates the United States or hates Donald Trump or anything like that.
It's really in my opinion that there are two different worldviews coming into conflict here: the American worldview a lot more focused on liberty, the German worldview a lot more focused on order.
She recalled the speech she almost gave at the Brandenburg Gate, saying, I had been criticized a lot when I wanted to speak in Berlin in front of the Brandenburg Gate, but I said he's not the president yet, and only presidents can speak there.
So, Obama ended up speaking instead in front of the victory column.
Well, I mean, I guess if the rules say that only presidents can speak there, then you'd better step in and make sure he can't speak there.
And naturally, we have to get to Angela Merkel as a role model for women.
Now, to me, Angela Merkel seems like some sort of robot.
So, I can't imagine women looking up to her at all.
But I'm not a woman, so I'm not going to say that I have any special insight in this.
Let's see what she has to say.
Merkel is nearly halfway through her fourth and final term as Chancellor.
Reflecting on nearly 15 years as the leader of one of the world's most powerful nations and the most powerful politician in Europe, and arguably the most powerful woman in the world, she spoke of the responsibility she felt to women and girls that looked up to her.
Oh, yeah, that's the name on the lips of every woman and girl who's aspiring to make something of herself.
I want to be like Angela Merkel.
All I'm saying is, when I watch feminists talking about the people they look up to, they're never saying Angela Merkel.
I'm sure that she has some fans somewhere.
I just don't know where they are.
When asked if she sees herself as a feminist, the Chancellor said that, having been asked this question before, the Dutch Queen Maxima helped her find her own definition of feminism.
So that's a resounding no then.
She hadn't converted to the cult of intersectionality and she needed someone else's help to define her own version of feminism.
Meaning that no, but I need to use that label or else a bunch of psychotic man-hating cultists are gonna leap up my ass and make my life forever a problem.
She said the queen explained to her that feminism meant women having the same rights everywhere and this is parity from politics to the media to the business community.
That must be our objective.
We are not there yet.
Actually, you are exactly there yet.
Women have the same rights as men, or at least broadly so.
We're not even going to get into the idea of women having more rights than men, even though that is actually true.
For the sake of this argument, women have the same rights as men.
They have the same right to self-determination as men.
What rights could they have in regards to the media?
What does that even mean?
The media doesn't provide rights.
It doesn't secure rights.
It doesn't guarantee rights.
It infringes rights every now and again, obviously.
For example, when they end up getting people censored or channels demonetized.
But the media has nothing to do with your rights.
Your rights are the same as the rights of men.
Now, it's up to you to go out and make something of yourself.
What you mean is opportunities or success.
When you use the word parity, you're not talking about rights anymore.
Now you're talking about material equality.
And that's the problem with feminism.
Women are never going to achieve the same kind of material equality as men because, frankly, women do different things with their lives.
And I think that's great.
I think that women should be free to do that.
Of course, feminists see there's a problem.
Because now I'm looking at the shape.
I'm looking at the spreadsheet.
I'm looking at the data and saying, well, this isn't the same, is it?
This isn't equality, is it?
Anyway, the Chancellor said, for many girls, apparently, I have become indeed a role model during my time of chancellorship.
She added, we need more women in these relevant positions, and that means men have to change their way of life.
Or what if men don't want to change their way of life?
Why should they?
Why should they do it?
Because you, Angela Merkel, need more women.
What if the general public don't agree?
If the public choose to vote for men more than women, because for whatever reason they see these particular men as more competent than these particular women in this particular circumstance, what are you going to do?
Why should men change anything for you?
You understand you've put yourself in direct competition with the men and are now speaking from a position of privilege and entitlement when you say, well, now they have to change themselves and get out of the way.
Why the hell?
Why?
Why would when your competition comes to you and says, by the way, I want to beat you.
I need you to change for me to do that.
Would you say, oh, yeah, sure, why not?
Why would I not just bend the knee?
Why would I not just bow out and let you have everything you want at the expense of me?
Why would I agree to that?
I don't think you understand how equality works.
Equality is saying I don't have to care whether you like this or not in the same way that you don't have to care whether I like it or not.
And so we'll both get along with our lives.
And if we're in a competitive democracy where we're both vying for votes, it's a bit ridiculous for you to say, oh, opposition, we need you to stand down so we can win.
If you would be so kind.
It's preposterous.
And it just goes to show the remarkable privilege that women enjoy in Western societies.
And feminism is the institutionalization of that privilege.
Women are oppressed and therefore they need advantages.
Men are the oppressors and therefore they must stand down.
And then we get to Merkel's raw elitism.
And this is the bit I think I find most objectionable.
With Merkel's final term as chancellor ending in 2021, Bacchus of her brand of politics fear it's on the way out as populism from both the left and right erodes the political center.
Merkel strongly rejected ceding any ground to populist forces.
Instead saying there was a need to show why we are for democracy, why we try to bring about solutions.
Why we always have to put ourselves into the other person's shoes and why we stand up against intolerance, why we show we have no tolerance towards violations of human rights.
Woo, there's a lot going on there, isn't there?
We're not for populism, but we are for democracy.
I mean, Merkel must know that when democracy was first conceived in Athens, this was considered to be an absolute, it was radical.
It was absolute radical populism.
It was almost a kind of debauched form of politics.
But it doesn't make any sense to say that the populists are opposed to democracy.
I mean, surely they want people to vote for them too.
And surely they're proposing policies that are in the best interest of the majority of people, at least the majority of the German population.
So why would you think that you are for democracy when that seems to be the way in which you're going to lose your elitist control over society?
When people finally start getting wise to the fact that you're not helping them out, you're helping you out, you're helping your order, your elitist order out, they're finally going to be like, well, I'm just going to vote for people who are actually going to help me.
Instead of browbeat me with the sins of the past, let in millions of people from other countries and then tell me that I have to shoulder the burden?
Why would they not vote against that?
And are you really still going to be saying, well, yeah, I'm totally in favor of democracy when this democracy turns against the international order that you have been trying to create?
Are you going to say, well, okay, yeah, well, I mean, if that's what those bloody Nazis want?
And I love it when she says, well, we're going to stand up against intolerance and show no tolerance of those who violate human rights.
People who violate human rights are people you're going to be intolerant against and you show no tolerance against intolerance.
Are you going to put a gun to your head and pull the trigger?
You put yourself in an unwinnable position when you formulate anything that you want to do this way.
You have to tolerate the intolerant or else you become the intolerant and you refuse to tolerate yourself by your own logic.
Where does this end?
This puts you in a paradox, in fact.
And it puts you in a position where you have to become, frankly, kind of Nazi-like, right?
And what's interesting is that you're really condemning much of the left here.
For example, recently, an alternative for Deutschland politician had his fucking head caved in.
Not very tolerant.
Pretty damn intolerant in my opinion.
But what's Merkel going to do about that?
Absolutely nothing.
She's not even going to mention it.
However, oh, oh, the alternative for Deutschland.
Oh, God.
Those populists.
Oh, oh, God, we have to be intolerant against them because, God forbid, they win at the ballot box, even though we're totally for democracy.
This is riven with contradictions that you can't solve and contradictions that will unseat you and your party and lead to a Germany that is not internationalist, that is more patriotic, I think I would say.
And you seem to hate that kind of idea.
You seem to hate that future.
Which is why CNN end with this.
As Merkel prepares to leave office, she might find that those who replace her sweep away her legacy, not only in Germany, but across the continent she has for so long dominated.
Why would that be bad?
It seems that Merkel has been the thing that is damaging Germany.
There are so many things that Germany is doing wrong, and honestly, I think it comes from a position where essentially Germany can't just leave well alone.
And it seems to be people like Merkel who are doing this.
Where Germany just can't mind its own business.
It's got to get into the financial affairs of Greece.
It's got to start dominating the entire European Union.
It's got to start imposing a particular kind of moral order on the world, which, if you recall, was the problem that we had with Germany in the 30s and 40s.
I don't think that Germany should be trying to impose a moral order on the world, because every time it does, it ends up badly.
And I don't care about the historical guilt.
I come from the team that beat the Nazis.
So don't give me any of this.
Oh, but what about X in future?
Well, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm on the side of the people who'll be stopping you from doing whatever terrible thing you do in future.
Really, the best thing for the Germans would be to not look outwards and just look inwards.
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