One other slight difference between Germany and the US:

French Socialists Elect Hollande May 2012

Jubilant French Socialists elected Hollande in May of 2012.  Something changed.

From Josh Gerstein at Politico.com:

Germany, ‘Veggie Day,’ and Michelle Obama

BERLIN—The elections set to take place here in Germany Sunday are expected to turn largely on the country’s solid economy, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s handling of the European debt crisis and social issues like women’s role in the work force. But add to that plate one more thing: Germans don’t want the government telling them what to eat.

In what could be a cautionary tale for First Lady Michelle Obama’s efforts to tweak Americans’ diets, Germans look set to punish the Green Party for urging that public cafeterias go meat-free on a designated “Veggie Day” each week in order to help the environment and reduce cruelty to animals. Borrowing colorfully from English, German newspaper Bild described public reaction to the idea as a “shitstorm.”

Imagine that: “Germans don’t want the government telling them what to eat.”

Top that with this, from an older post of mine:

Germany’s Angela Merkel has the temerity and courage to state the obvious.  Germany has “had it.”  A pull quote: German Chancellor Angela Merkel: “lmmigrants should learn to speak German.” Read the article here.

The article I referred to in October of 2010 is entitled: “Merkel says German multicultural society has failed.”  How heinous, how overbearing, how insensitive of her to insist on a national language being embraced by immigrants!

Germany clearly has had it.

The French say multiculturalism is a flop as well, from my February 12th, 2011 post entitled: “Even The French Admit: “Multi-Kulti” = FAILURE.”

So the Germans did the proper thing and re-elected a person who has made them stronger in the face of weakness, more determined in the face of waffling, and more fiscally solvent in the face of budgetary EU failure and bankruptcy.

You won’t see that happening here because this country possesses what I term “Historical Alzheimers.”  We learn nothing from history.  Leftists are obviously historically ignorant.  Obama Socialist?  Indeed.

Everyone seems to think they can “do” Socialism better than the prior guy.  Including Obama.  He just doesn’t have the courage to say what he really means or wants.

But tell me, as one fellow reader at work said to me a day ago: “Show me successful liberalism.”

Key word: successful.

Chicago?  Detroit?  Even DC?

BZ

 

 

Mocking Leftists, Angela Merkel wins Germany again

Bundestagswahl 2013Because, apparently, having a strong economy — stronger than the rest of Europe — and refusing to be the butt-boy of the EU plays well with Deutschland’s electorate.

From Bloomberg.com:

Merkel Sees Biggest Victory Since Kohl’s Reunification Vote

 

Angela Merkel won an overwhelming endorsement from German voters, putting the country’s first female chancellor on course for the biggest election tally since Helmut Kohl’s post-reunification victory of 1990.

Merkel’s Christian Democratic bloc took 41.8 percent in today’s election to 25.5 percent for the Social Democrats of Peer Steinbrueck, projections on ZDF television as of 8:57 p.m. showed. Earlier forecasts had her group with a one-seat majority in the lower house for only the second time since World War II after Konrad Adenauer in 1957. The euro gained even as her lead later shrank below a majority.

Please note that, even as the rest of the EU bellowed at Merkel “no more ‘austerity’ you ignorant slut,” the German electorate didn’t buy the phrase.

Imagine that.  Fiscal responsibility and a bit of austerity seems to do much better for an economy.

Take that, Obama, you ignorant slut.

BZ