It is not the old fascist hate, although that exists, that led the AfD to surge in the elections. It is something much more urgent.
n the course of last year, the European Union has faced an emergency known as the so-called “populist wave”: Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, Marine Le Pen in France, Ernst Hofer in Austria, Brexit in the UK, AfD now in Germany.
The mainstream media repeats the mantra that behind this right-wing surge lies the xenophobic and fascist hate that has raised its head in Europe, citing Vladimir Putin with his hackers, Donald Trump and his tweets, and other children’s fairy tales. These are the real fake newsmongers.
If Europe stays under siege in its Berlaymont Palace in Brussels without realizing the roots of these political earthquakes, Europe’s walls will be the next to fall.
What lies behind the right-wing surge is, instead, the big cultural shock that hit at the heart of the European democracies.
It is a shock caused by the multicultural disaster (Muslim ghettos, sexual rape during the night in Cologne, chaos in the suburbs), the Islamist massacres (Charlie Hebdo, Hyper Cacher, Bataclan, Theo van Gogh, Nice, Brussels, Copenaghen, Stockholm, Berlin…), the ideological shock (derision of the people by the élites and political correctness), rampant anti-Christian secularization and massive illegal immigration (2.2 million people illegally entered Europe in 2015-2016).
So many physical, cultural, demographic and social borders are in a state of collapse. If Europe stays under siege in its Berlaymont Palace in Brussels without realizing the roots of these political earthquakes, Europe’s walls will be the next to fall.
The main reason behind Brexit was the British fear of German’s immigration chaos. But what about the day all the Syrians Mrs. Merkel allowed in become German citizens? Will the UK still be able to reject and refuse them entry if London is still part of the EU?
Mr. Wilders’ political career is the result of two political assassinations linked to Islam: Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh. He is a survivor.
The rising of Marine Le Pen is the fruit of 50 years of bad French integration policies.
And the AfD’s success is all related to Merkel’s decision to open the doors to one million Syrians.
Germany is a country sick of complacency (“a happy country” said one of Merkel’s slogans) and “frivolity” (the definition that comes from the newspaper Handelsblatt), a wealthy society based on suicidal multicultural ideology and cultural self-censorship (any German book critical of Islam has been demonized and marginalized, from Thilo Sarrazin to Rolf Peter Sieferle), a democracy built on pacifism (the German army is a joke) and a perennial sense of guilt-caused indigestion, which thinks that a border exists only to be overcome (Rudiger Safranski).
The German chancellors come and go. But their country is here to stay. And their ideological model, not the 13% so called “neo-Nazis”, is what is endangering Europe.
If Europe is “falling apart” because of Brexit in the UK and strange political parties in Germany, then it must have been “fallen apart” through much of its history. The UK first joined the Union in the 1970s; and many countries have been added since then. As for Germany, it was a divided country until 1990; and I would posit that there was more contention between the Communist Party of East Germany and the Western Parties, than there is today between the AfD and the CDU.
Politically, the “European Project” has taken a few hits lately; but the overall trend has been , and will continue to be, toward greater integration.
All that said, I myself have said that Europe is “falling apart” — not because of Brexit, nor even because ot the migration invasion; but because Europeans have been throwing away faith in the Bible, the one thing that has united them. Europeans really have not become connected with one another by abolishing capital punishment, nor by being part of Interpol; but they were connected for centuries by a fear of the God of Israel, and by diverse attempts to carry out His will. With Him removed from the high place of the European conscience, it is all those people can do, to keep from destroying themselves and one another — if not by a great war, then by emasculating, suicidal philosophies.
In the 1860s, the German-speaking people were divided into dozens of stamp-sized duchies and burghs. Ultimately, Hitler unified them. Then they “fell apart”, and the world gave a sigh of relief. Today, we have the “European” project, which some see as just another “German” project with a few modifications.
The Holy Roman Empire became the Axis Powers, and today it’s become the European Council — distinctions of little difference. The real difference is that the one God has been replaced with dozens, perhaps hundreds of philosophers, from Marx to Darwin to Chomsky to Rousseau to Soros to Spock to the Beatles, to whoever else it is that people listen to and obey. THAT is what I call “falling apart”.
Did the petro$ of the lands of the sands buy the European elito-kleptocrats?