Prioritizing short-term tactics over wisdom, Merz allowed himself to be swayed by shifting public opinion and the desire to appease his Social Democratic partners.
Post-war German education once stood for intellectual rigour. Today, feelings trump facts, ideology replaces enquiry, and political conformity stifles critical thinking.
How Germany’s Nazi past was politically weaponized to justify the 2015 refugee crisis
For years, Liebich has relentlessly exploited the weaknesses, contradictions, and hypocrisies of establishment politics, attacking every sacred taboo.
An honest assessment reveals that German mainstream politics has served as Erdoğan’s most effective accomplice for years.
Rather than fighting hard political fights at home, German politicians hide behind Brussels.
By bankrolling organizations that ordinary Germans would never voluntarily support, the state has created an artificial network of antisemitic quasi-lobbyists.
In the Kafkaesque reality of Germany’s speech laws, anonymous functionaries can trigger police raids, with intimidation becoming the goal and the punishment.
Germany once vowed never again—but its government is now abandoning Israel just as antisemitism surges across the country.
The prize, this year awarded to Commission President von der Leyen, has functioned as propaganda accompanied by public disputes for years.
The mere possibility that today’s populists might stand on the side of justice in the fight for Freyheit terrifies their opponents.
Instead of working to protect citizens from Islamist terror, the priority of the German establishment is to warn that terror must not be “instrumentalized” by populists.
