Olaf Scholz should clear the path for new federal elections on September 1st to head off the far-right Alternatives AfD
Life is like a herd of sheep, eating grass on the dikes along the North Sea Coast. All quiet and serene. In a group huddling against the cold winds. All marching in unison for several hundred meters on one direction before stopping and then turning directions and marching on further. This was the site I found astonishing as we vacationed in Büsum last summer. While biking along the dike, I saw this phenomenon with a herd lined up in rows, marching for over 150 meters towards us in unison, then stopped about 10 meters from the bike trail- with only one fence on the dike facing the waters. Then they turned around in unison and marched towards the water. This formation was perfectly formed and carried out to perfection. It was something I had never seen before, but it was one which reminded me of Europe, and in particular, Germany.
Fast forward to June 10th, 2024: one day after the European Elections and local elections in eight German states, including the five former East German States: Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Pommerania. With the highest turnout since the 1990 elections, people would have known better than to vote for a party that favors Remigration of all foreigners and those with German passports (half of the population), rolling back traditional but polluting energy resources, such as nuclear power and coal, modernizing the infrastructure to favor fuel-guzzing cars and SUVs, and making the country a German country- Amtssprache Deutsch! En Masse, the population voted and as a result, minus Berlin, Potsdam, Leipzig, Jena, Erfurt, Magdeburg, and Weimar, the former East German States are all covered in a contaminated sea of blue, known as the Alternative for Germany (AfD)! At the same time, regions that had favored the Social Democrats and Greens in the western half five years earlier have voted Black- meaning the traditional Christian Democrats CDU and the Bavarian CSU. Again, the people voted en masse, like a herd of sheep!
The question is why?
The answer is simple: Even though Germany has been a country for 75 years, and together with the former eastern half for 34 years, the population has been dependent on a shepard who would lead the country going forward, regardless of the results and the circumstances. For 48 out of those 75 years, Germany had the likes of Konrad Adenauer, Helmut Kohl and Angela Merkel leading the herd of sheep through mud and hills. No one thought of anything outside of that- just following the shepard’s line of rule. No one experimented. The population was like the herd sheep that was naiive, just functioned a unit and simply wanted to live the life by following. The same applied with East Germany. If the population followed their leader and behaved well, they would not be subjected to torture and time incarcerated. And for 45 years, they had Wilhelm Pieck, Walther Ulbricht and Erich Honecker, all of whom promised to keep the herd behind the Wall and keep the sheep in line.
The results of the European elections had their underlying causes- be it the Ukrainian War, be it job and energy securities or migration or the lack of interest in environmental and European policies as a whole. But the results of the elections had to do with the sheep needing a shepard to lead them through and get them back in line- through structure, order and discipline. The herd has broken up, some being lured away by others who would want nothing more but to slaughter them, but not before lying to their faces. If there’s something that is too good to be true, it probably is. Hitler once led his country en masse and led the population to the slaughter houses run by wolves with his war machine and his Lebensraum going east. The end result was over 75 million dead (including six million plus in the Holocaust), the German population cut in half and the country cut in half by a Wall dividing East and West for another 45 years after World War II ended on May 7, 1945.
The German population is like that herd of sheep. Like the sheep that needs its shepard to lead them and keep them in line, residents need a new leader and a new direction- one that will unite and guide the country going forward. One that will protect the herd and their neighbors. And one that will ensure that the sheep multiply and follow their leader for generations to come.
With each day going by, we will see one sheep going wayward. We will see one wolf in sheep’s clothing that will devour that wayward sheep and enforce fear into the herd. We don’t have that shepard in Olaf Scholz and with each day going by, the power of the AfD will become much stronger until it wins absolute majority in the eastern half. And that would be just the begining! Whether the masses who voted for the AfD this past Sunday wanted this remains open, but what they do want is someone to lead the masses and into the right direction.
To stop this, the only way is for new federal elections to take place on September 1st 2024, together with the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia. Only then will we have a chance to find a new leader, a shepard, who will lead the country en masse and provide stability to Germany, the rest of Europe and its Union, and lastly but most importantly, democracy itself.
Here are the results of the European and Local Elections in Germany:
Erinthecute, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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