If you wanted two more opposite sides of the industrial/engineering coin, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better match than Germany and the United States. We’re knocking down barriers, dumping red tape, and creating a long list of incentives for industry to do business from America’s shores. Employ us, we’ll make you proud. Germany, in contrast, is pulling on the EU’s green garrot it wrapped around its own industrial throat.
The German economy is nearly in freefall, trapped in a doom loop that it refuses even to try to escape.
If the predicted 5 percent decline in production for 2025 materializes, it would mark the peak of a catastrophic trend. Since 2018, machinery production — and roughly speaking, the entire German industrial sector — has fallen by about 20 percent. This has consequences for employment: over 200,000 industrial jobs have been lost since 2020, 68,000 of them just last year. And this may only be the beginning of a devastating employment crisis.
These figures no longer describe an ordinary recession but the onset of an economic depression. The core of the German economy, industry, has been severely damaged by the self-inflicted energy crisis and grotesque regulatory excesses under the Green Deal. It should not be forgotten that countless service sectors, supply chains, and value chains depend directly on industry. German prosperity fundamentally derives from this sector — the very source that supports social programs and helps maintain social stability amid a worsening environment.
US Tariffs don’t help matters, but the majority of problems are internal and self-inflicted, and while that seems to concern many, political and industry leaders seem more worried that when the people have had enough of their bullshit, they will vote AfD into office.
“If action is not taken now, voters will be pushed into the arms of the political extremes,” he cautions.
Without explicitly naming them, the VDMA chief [Bertram Kawlath] pointed to the AfD, which recently climbed to 27 percent nationwide in Sunday polls. Remarkably, even at this stage of the crisis, where the structural damage caused by ideology-driven policies is obvious, Kawlath speaks out politically for the first time yet still refrains from naming the culprit: the Green Deal’s ecological transformation is left untouched by his critique.
Germany has taxed and regulated itself into a failing economy, which is likely to result in political change, but what else would you expect? When you make people poor, cold, and miserable, the only way to prevent them from voting for change, sold as in their own best interest or in fact the only path out of the state the elites have landed them in, is to impose your will upon them, absent their consent.
Ironically, that’s the thing they accuse AfD of representing when, in fact, AfD would like to make Germany Great Again without the war machine, goose-stepping border expansions, and gas chambers.
If you want to know what’s so awful, any normal search will provide the approved narrative. A curated list of horribles. But if you visit AfD’s website, you get this.
As free citizens, we advocate for direct democracy, the separation of powers, and the rule of law, as well as a social market economy, federalism, family support, and the living traditions of German culture.
The AfD therefore wants all state party financing to be placed on a new legal basis and limited.
In order to make the election of the Federal President more transparent and independent of political parties, we want the Federal President to be elected directly by the people.
While tax evasion is prosecuted and punished in Germany, even for relatively small amounts, tax waste, which is equally damaging to the common good, remains unpunished.
Anti EU: Our goal is a sovereign Germany that guarantees the freedom and security of its citizens, promotes their prosperity, and contributes to a peaceful and prosperous Europe.
The common euro is a fundamentally flawed construction. Monetary union inevitably developed into a debt union. We demand an orderly end to the euro experiment.
German savings accounts should not be used to hedge risks arising abroad.
We want to strengthen the rule of law and help ensure consistent enforcement of the law again.
The AfD wants to end the influence of political parties on the appointment of judges and prosecutors.
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It’s a long list that is almost entirely based on National sovereignty of EU member states, effective self-rule by Germans, electoral reform, transparency, and accountability in government. Germany’s abdication to the EU and of common sense at its direction are ruining the nation and the people.
- Stop government spending on refugees
- “Negative immigration”: Refugees in Germany are returned to their home countries
- Remove the constitutional right of foreigners to seek asylum in Germany
- Restrict the influence of Islam in Germany
Most of the outside coverage focuses on this aspect in an effort to link it at least emotionally to Hitler’s treatment of Jews Gypsies, and others. I can’t find any evidence of that. AfD is merely trying to prevent demographic replacement that will end German culture (the good bits), like how good their engineering used to be when they had energy they could afford and talent wasn’t bleeding out into other industrial nations.
I happen to think that a lawful, transparent Germany outside the EU tyranny could do a lot to improve German lives and the regional economy in General. That’s difficult to do when the so-called Democracy that is afraid of you bans your speech and ability to stand as a candidate for election.
Ultimately, the German people ought to be free to decide, which is what has the elites frightened, a problem they could solve by not running the country into a ditch and then digging it deeper at every opportunity. Bad for Germany but good for America. We can eat their lunch, and we are.
Grokster Mike Rogers contributed the headline along with the story tip.
