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German Left Confused about its Identity

Germany could end up divided like the United States if the country’s left won’t stop with moralising and attempts to suppress any opposing opinions, Sahra Wagenknecht, former Left Party leader said in a harsh attack on her own allies.

‘The increasing intolerance of the German liberals may have catastrophic consequences for the country’, Wagenknecht warned in an interview with Die Welt. Branding anybody with a different stance, ‘a Nazi who should be ‘cancelled’ was no way to go, she added.

‘This is a typical approach of the left-liberal political mind-set: anyone, who is in favour of restricting immigration, is a racist; anyone, who criticizes CO2 taxes, is a climate change denier; and anyone, who doesn’t think that schools, restaurants and gyms should be closed, is a ‘Covidiot,’ she said.

This self-righteous attitude, which already cost the left a lot of votes is being promoted by the new academic middle class in the major cities. However, one must understand that these are a relatively privileged group that lives in a largely isolated filter bubble,’ Wagenknecht insisted.

Everyone, from the conservative to the left spectrum, who has an interest in our country not ending up in extreme division like the US, should regain the ability to engage in broad discussion with decency and respect.

The politician, who was the leftist party’s leader in the parliament between 2010 and 2019 and remained a strong voice in the party said she fully shared the concerns over the continuing narrowing of the spectrum of opinion, recently voiced by Noam Chomsky and other intellectuals.

The Left is going to run for the Bundestag again this September, with Wagenknecht urging her fellow party members to finally give up on moralising and promoting cancel culture. ‘Our policies must focus on social problems, not language contortions and lifestyle issues,’ she said.

Interestingly, the National Socialists (NSDAP) formed 1919 to resist globalism, and then called Bolshevism recruited most of its activists from the Far Left and the German Communist Party (KDP) of the time.

The joke in Germany at the time was that there were so many former Communist Party members in the Brownshirts (SA) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) that they ‘are brown on the outside red on the inside’.

As William Joyce surmised, ‘if you love your country you are a nationalist. If you love your people you are a socialist so be a National Socialist. The Irish-American National Socialist was illegally hanged by the British in January 1946.

Could this be the appropriate time for the anti-globalist right to recruit from the confused and betrayed leftist movement? Nothing would strike fear into the globalists than such a strategy occurring. Source

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