Mattyfisk wrote on Dec 21
st, 2017 at 8:33am:
issuevoter wrote on Dec 20
th, 2017 at 8:50pm:
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Dec 20
th, 2017 at 6:56pm:
Mattyfisk wrote on Dec 20
th, 2017 at 11:04am:
Lord Herbert wrote on Dec 20
th, 2017 at 9:55am:
The EU is destined to crash-and-burn like the worst train-wreck in history, and then out of this conflagration will rise phoenix-like a return to national sovereignties and border controls, and the Left of the polity will have seen the last of its halcyon years.
Sounds like a plan, Herbie.
Blood and fire. It'll be WWII all over again, no?
When freely available energy via petroleum vanishes to a trickle, that will become the new reality....
That reads as a metaphor for a distant time. I don't see petroleum running out this century. The reserves are massive, and exploration keeps finding more. Nor do I see the EU crashing in the foreseeable future. It will have problems but welfare will keep deluded humanists like Merkle in power. Remember, anyone who wants to defend their way of life, and their borders, is a Nazi.
German manufacturing is keeping the Christian Democrat Merkel going, Issue. It's the economy. The US could look no further than Germany and the EU to see how things work in a healthy, low-emissions manufacturing economy with high terms of trade.
Germany exports more than it imports. It does so as a member of the world's biggest trading block.
I'm hardly a Merkel fan, but these are just the facts. All the things you deride Germany and Europe for are the things that have made them great again.
once you have enough money to "stave off the debt collectors", then additional cash doesnt seem to add to national "happiness".
people need function and for men function must come in the form of climbing the "competance' heirachy.
there has to be some challenge to overcome
there has to be some mountain to climb.
maybe the assimilation of the migrants is the next challenge that fat Fritz and fat Eva are going to undertake.
it will certainly get them off the couch and stop them sitting around "pleasuring themselves".
Solzenitzen wrote a great book along those lines with the story of how if you put humans in a glass spa full of joy and sensual pleasure and there were bubbles of pure bliss coming up thru the water, the first thing they would do is smash the glass to make something interesting happen.
We spiritually know that "the socialist utopia " is boring and bad for us. Maybe Merkel subconsciously knew this as well and had to smash her utopia.
it goes to prove, there is no utopia. there is no end to the journey, that once you rest on your laurels you are screwed and you have to keep rising to face the challenge.
but not in the way the left envisage it.