Although the author makes a few concessions to the concerns about immigration, it is accompanied by the tired old trick of throwing in some desperate Nazi associations to discredit the AFD.
But as with others who are finally admitting problems now that the facts are too obvious to hide, she can’t seem to see that the dangerous extremists leading Germany to ruin and conflict are the mainstream parties that she would probably describe as centrist.
If one wanted to destroy a country socially, and store up resentment and future conflict, the best method would be to import millions of people from the most violent, corrupt, religiously divided parts of the world, whose culture is wholly incompatible with modern Western values, and distribute them through Germany.
If one wanted to destroy the Germany’s economy, which is based heavily on industry and manufacturing, one would shut down all its perfectly safe nuclear reactors, close its fossil fuel power stations and sell it the lie that all its energy needs can be replaces with wind turbines, solar panels, and a yet non-existent form of energy storage for when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow.
With a ruined economy and ever rising ethnic tensions, we will have the perfect conditions for a German civil war among ethnic groups.
Those whose folly will deliver this future now propose to ban a political party who opposes their catastrophic madness. They claim to be saving democracy by suspending democracy for the 21% of voters who support their opposition. The idea is utterly abhorrent and shameful.
Who the dangerous extremists are should be patently obvious to anyone with a brain, and it’s not the AFD.

The theme of pieces such as this is always the same: a concerned member of the liberal intellectual classes warns us that failure to deal with the migrant crisis is fueling the rise of the dreaded Far Right – [cue shudder of moral panic at prospect of shameful fascist future].
As though that was the only real problem with mass migration.
Well, the common herd will just have to lump it because the political/intellectual/creative classes desperately need to keep themselves free of the taint of xenophobia. Their whole sense of moral self-worth depends on it.

The policy of housing inordinate numbers of immigrants in tiny German villages has been going on for a while. I remember reading about it in Murray’s book The Strange Death of Europe. Seriously myopic stuff.

“Following reports that Germany is now considering banning the AfD”
That will bring everyone to their senses, won’t it. Looking at the world through the wrong end of the telescope, I fear.

If you won’t listen to the voters, somebody else will.

1.Stop all European spending on Green/Net Zero initiatives (the illegal immigration crisis is far more pressing and serious).
2.Spend all the consequent savings on huge bribes for the leaders of African countries to prevent their own citizens from sailing illegally to Europe and for them to accept returns of all illegal immigrants discovered in Europe regardless of nationality.
3.Make it clear that if this fails, we will remove those leaders from power and replace them with people that can get the job done.

You know the political class is morally and intellectually bankrupt when it calls for banning political parties, rather than co-opting them by adopting policies to peal away their supporters. Germany isn’t a cesspool of racists. Voters are simply fed up with garbage coming from the current crop of incompetent politicians.

The EUcracy simply cannot see anything from any point of view but its own narrow interest. All problems must be addressed by further ‘progressive’ EUcracy and any resistance to this is simply a far-right/Putinistic/racist/variophobic reaction which must be demonised and suppressed. It’s hopeless. The ‘liberals’ are the new totalitarians.

You can’t ban 20%+ of the electorate without some very bad consequences. Unless you are channeling Brecht of course.
“After the uprising of the 17th of June, the Secretary of the Writers Union had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee stating that the people had forfeited the confidence of the government and could win it back only by redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier In that case for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?”

If the government doesn’t like the politics of a party, it can simply ban it? This sounds like the Germany of another time.

“the mediaeval village of Schönberg, north of Berlin, has 250 inhabitants and is supposed to find housing for 80 refugees….They didn’t even consult us.”

Arrogant politicians who act that way can have no complaint with the likely outcome.

I studied the German settlement question in an Oxford D Phil thesis and did not come across this expression.It sounds a bit D Mail to me, but I am open to evidence, eg from Goebbels or Himmlers speeches. Apparently making a circle with thumb and forefinger, as to mean all is ok, is a Nazi sign, as is the sun emblazoned on a large banner. Neither of those assertions are true. However, when the Azov batfalion was wsaring real, actual Nazi symbols ( SS runes), jt seems they were just charming menentoes of small German villages. .

You know, for all that the German establishment likes to compare AfD to the Nazi Party, they haven’t actually learned anything from the rise of the Nazi Party, have they?

In 10 years, Germany will be de facto governed by Middle Eastern clans on the one hand and nativist groups on the other – they’ll duke it out in a hyper-violent territorial war while the population and the remnants of what once was the governing class stand by helplessly, just trying to avoid involvement and damage to themselves. This return to primitive gang warfare will be the multi-culti diverse society of boundless humanity that the “progressives” always envisioned.
Watching Germany self-destruct is terrifying. It has been a remarkably quick process.

Mass immigration is certainly disruptive to any society, and if it continues at the high and unassimilable levels we are seeing it will certainly result in increasing levels of distrust between identity groups (whether ethnic or religious) and eventually to civil unrest and maybe even insurrection and/or civil war. But given the combination of Germans’ desire for a well-funded welfare state and their refusal to reproduce themselves at levels sufficient to sustain it, mass immigration is inevitable and unstoppable. I suppose the AfD thinks that if it ever achieved power it could encourage more Germans to have children by a set of tax incentives, but I suspect the problem is a more deep-seated cultural one. German civilisation seems to have developed (as emergent phenomenon, for it need not be consciously desired by anyone) a death wish. In this it is by no means alone in Europe of course. It appears that the administrative and governing elites see their role as simply to manage the terminal stages of their country’s history with as little unpleasantness as possible, but even that ambition will probably prove to be beyond them.

Actually, Germany can do EXACTLY that. In democracy, the majority is king, not the citizen. Democracy does not good people make. Democracy cannot bring light to a dark heart.

Europe is headed for a massive backlash. The governments will not be allowed forever to do things like mandating the settlement of “refugees” (actually economic migrants) on local communities.