Comments by "bart thomassen thomassen" (@thomassenbart) on "The New York Times"
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Very Funny.
Yeah, the West German preoccupation with Nazi guilt is too much. The AFD is not a fascist party nor are they far right. Anti-Muslim? Do you mean anti-mass migration into Germany from Muslim nations?
Weidel is correct. Hitler hated Capitalism, liberal markets and democracy. National Socialism was statist and controlled the market and economy very much as the Soviets did, with multiyear plans, production quotas, control of resources, endless bureaucracy etc...Nazism had nothing to do with the Right, which traditionally meant monarchy but then became liberal, capitalist democracies.
Germany has never forgotten its past.
There are few to no real Nazis in Germany or in the world. No one believes in Nazi ideology. Confusing superficialities and phrases with actual fascism, is really lame.
What Nazi things are the AFD doing or supporting?
Although this video was really well done and funny, it is extremely disingenuous and naive to the extreme Leftism that is weakening the West from every quarter and to which populist parties, like the AFD are directly responding. It has nothing to do with a revival of fascism/Nazism but a desire to protect European and Western culture, be safe from random Islamic terror, and have economic prosperity. If mass migration were halted, especially from the Islamic world and Africa into Europe, parties like the AFD would lose almost all of their support. Contrary to the naive European relativist ideal, all cultures are not equal nor the same but in reality are vastly different, espousing very different values, ways of life, ideals etc...and ignoring this and failing to properly integrate and screen incoming migrants by the millions, is a recipe for disaster, as can be demonstrated across Europe.
We must also speak to the anti-democratic initiatives across Europe going on currently. Hate speech laws, especially in Germany where arrests, fines, and confiscations are widespread, as demonstrated during a recent 60 Minutes program. Threats to make the AFD illegal also echo very worrisome authoritarianism. The overreach of the EU is another example, which prompted Brexit and also inspires great Euroscepticism. Climate activism insanity is also in play here as it has contributed directly to increased poverty and energy insecurity in Germany as ideology has replaced common sense, again echoing authoritarianism. So, while the AFD is demonized, actual policies engaging in thought police actions, restrictions on speech, massive bureaucracies of unelected people ruling lives etc... are in place.
Who is the real danger here?
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I like the criticism of the Demos and Leftist states but truthfully, 2/3of these areas and the criticisms leveled are fundamentally incorrect. It is not equity and higher taxes, which create wealth and opportunity but the opposite. The larger the State and bureaucracy and higher the taxes, the less wealth and greater poverty one achieves. Also, there is no way in Washington state, that the poorest quintile is paying 17% taxes. If they pay anything at all, certainly not income tax, it is in the form of sales tax and FICA; neither equaling 17%. Also, most of these folk are very likely to be net income recipients of redistributionist programs, to include Child tax credits, Medicaid, food stamps, housing subsidies, free school lunch, SNAP, etc... etc...
The wealthy on the other hand, such as Gates, listed as paying 3%, is almost certainly paying vastly more, with this figure only representing income tax, rather than taxes on dividends, stocks, real estate, etc....Gates said he has paid $10 billion in taxes total. Bezos, chief exec. of Amazon, paid $973 million in taxes last year, with an income of $4.22 billion. That's not 3%.
Education issues in the USA are not a function of money spent. The US out spends almost the entire planet in actual and per capita spending and yet our national testing and international testing, is abysmal. The issues lay in how we educate, not the money we spend. Even poorer districts receive vast amounts of money, relatively speaking. Having a system based upon zip code is one of the fundamental problems. Parents need choice in schooling and children should have vouchers attached to them, which allows each student to choose where to go and would foster competition for those dollars and children between schools. Also, obviously the teacher's unions are serious impediments to actual education, as has been made abundantly clear during COVID and over CRT etc...
Homelessness, criminality, irresponsibility, identity politics and infantilization of the public are destroying the nation, especially in blue states and it is the Leftist political and economic mindset, that is the problem and needs to be abandoned to correct these issues.
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