Quote (Black XistenZ @ 13 Feb 2020 05:34)
- antifa groups, which have publicly professed to attacks on FDP field offices all across the country, and which are receiving government funding from various "projects against the right". it's almost guaranteed that antifa or antifa-like leftist "activists" are behind the personal threats against Kemmerich and his family.
- merkel is the "empress" that called to undo a democratic election of a politician from a non-extremist party which wasnt even her own one. when AKK and others were calling for kemmerich's resignation and for the CDU Thüringen to distance themselves from his election, not a lot happened. as soon as Merkel called his election "unforgivable" and that it "must be undone asap" while on her overseas trip, he resigned less than an hour later, her own party chair AKK resigned a few days later, the chair of a different party (Lindner) fell completely in line, and to top it off, she fired the federal government's representative for Eastern Germany under the pretense that he violated the neutrality he's supposed to show in his office. needless to say, this guy who violated Merkel's political line and was fired over his lack of neutrality was replaced by a guy who called the AfD "toxic scum". so much about lack of neutrality. XD
- Merkel didnt do this to cover up her crimes, but she did it to preserve her eroding power. needless to say that the strategical dilemma into which she has led her party as chancellor and party chair with her disastrous decisions is the lone reason why all of this happened in the first place. also needless to say that this course is hurting her party a ton, and has now led to a situation where the party cant avoid further bleeding to either the Greens or the AfD. all for the sake of her remaining chancellor. Merkel has clearly put her own fate and power over the fate of her party.
so (very much as expected), your claims are based on speculation, exaggeration, misrepresentation, and false equivalence. you don't have any source or concrete claim about government funding and violence threats, you're just resorting to your old
'b-b-but antifa are the real fascists' talking point. and while writing anti-fascist slogans on the walls of FDP headquarters could certainly be charged with causing damage to property, it's very different from threatening physical harm to a politician. apparently you figured that your best bet here is to muddy the waters, and pretend that all of that happened, that it was the same people, a homogenous and 'government funded' GROUP that did this, but the complete lack of evidence for that, your ever moving goal posts, and the lack of more specific claims, just illustrates it's largely bs.
and again you're trying to frame the calculated political stunt by your far right party as merely a 'democratic election', and even more dishonestly, try to portray the way they achieved this (which was to not withdraw their own candidate, but then still unanimously vote for a different one) as an argument in their favour (you really have no shame, do you?).
why is that? it was a 'clever' (although not completely unexpected, as several politicians warned this might happen - which is part of the reason for the backlash since all other parties agreed not to collaborate with your brownshirt party) way to expose a weakness in the system, so why not proudly embrace it? oh right, because you're trying to misrepresent it, hoping to fool people who aren't familiar with the details.
yes, there was significant backlash over this election across ALL parties (those in power as well as those in opposition, those who stand to benefit from it, and those who won't), but that is hardly the same as trying to destroy a politician for voting his conscience. also, we have to remember how he ended up there in the first place - you exclusively trying to suggest the REaction to this little stunt is somehow undemocratic, while repeatedly trying to mislead about the cause of this situation, just showcases how incredibly dishonest you are.
my last point is your unhealthy obsession to draw equivalences between merkel and trump, or generally blame her for everything humanly possible (completely undermining the valid criticism of a rather significant list of things she actually should be blamed for): this isn't even remotely similar, let alone 'the same' as the romney vote, as i already explained in my previous post.
it's outright laughable to suggest this is a 'preserving of her eroding power' move. i mean, i'm sure you're well aware of her announcement not to run for chancellor again, that she retired from party leadership in 2018, and also announced her retirement from other political offices. and while naturally her word has a lot of weight, she merely echoed the similar concerns across party and even coalition lines throughout germany. you will probably disagree with the reasoning for those concerns, but even you won't pretend they aren't genuinely held by all other parties, or would you?
again her party has nothing to gain from this in thuringia, is not in a coalition with the fdp on a federal level - so there is no way this actually strengthens her position, you're clearly just throwing everything at the wall and hoping something sticks...