{"id":27796,"date":"2021-06-16T00:46:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T22:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/?p=27796"},"modified":"2021-06-19T01:09:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T23:09:12","slug":"small-state-but-big-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/2021\/06\/16\/small-state-but-big-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8211; SMALL STATE BUT BIG QUESTIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i> Victor Grossman \u2013 16. Juni 2021<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_9198\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9198\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9198\" src=\"https:\/\/info-welt.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Victor_Grossman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victor Grossman<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"ydp98f3594dMsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">BERLIN BULLETIN NO. 190<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">SMALL STATE BUT BIG QUESTIONS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">A week ago Saxony-Anhalt voted! The media prediction &#8211; a neck-and-neck race &#8211; was cock-eyed! But outside Sachsen-Anhalt (in German), did anyone really give a damn? Yes, some did!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">It\u2019s sandwiched along the Elbe River between \u201cgenuine\u201d Saxony to the southeast, with Dresden and Leipzig, and Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) to the west, which has Volkswagen. And what has it got?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Tons of history,mostly German. Bach spent his happiest years in little K\u00f6then, whose music-loving ruler-prince played in his ensemble. But Bach left the Anhalt town and moved on to Leipzig. George Frederick Handel, born and raised in Halle (Anhalt), also moved on, to Hamburg, Rome, London (and \u201cThe Messiah\u201d). Martin Luther was more faithful; he nailed his 98 Theses on a church door in Wittenberg (Anhalt), and was both born and died in the region. That at least is worth noticing! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The state capital, Magdeburg, can claim a little fame as birthplace of Friedrich Wilhelm Gerhard Augustin von Steuben, or \u201cBaron Steuben\u201d &#8211; the fantastic phony! A lowly captain when kicked out of the Prussian army (maybe for being gay), he was broke, his \u201cbaron\u201d title and noble \u201cvon\u201d were invented, his fancy general\u2019s uniform was a creation of Ben Franklin\u2019s Paris tailor. But it all worked, George Washington was glad to have one of Frederick the Great\u2019s officers build up a disciplined army at Valley Forge and help win the Revolution. And Magdeburg boasts a fine statue of Steuben.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">As old as Charlemagne, its founder, it is proud of another man, who was mayor but loved to try his hand at other pursuits (quite different from those of New York\u2019s governor). In 1654 he pumped all the air out of two large copper hemispheres, fit together to prove the strength of atmospheric pressure. It proved so powerful that two teams of horses could not defy the vacuum and pull the two apart. Once air was allowed back in they fell apart immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Two strong sides were in play again last Sunday. No matter how the other political horses strained, they could not break the double-bind of the two, invulnerable despite their differences. Six parties were in the running, there was hot air in abundance, but those two kept their tight grip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Unlike 1654, both good and bad news was involved. It was good for Saxony-Anhalt\u2019s premier for ten years, Rainer Haseloff, 67, a serious-looking senior, whose down-to-earth manner resembled that of another East German from the same \u201cChristian\u201d party, Angela Merkel. As with father or mother figures in other states, his personal popularity helped win him a third straight victory.\u00a0 <div class=\"hide-this-part-wrap\"><div class=\"hide-this-part-more\" id=\"hide-this-part-0\" morelink-text=\"More\">More \u00bb<\/div><div class=\"hide-this-part\" status=\"invisible\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">But the 37% tally for his CDU, a fat 7.3% increase over its result five years ago and amazingly high with six parties in the race, was based on more than fatherliness. Repeated predictions that the rabid, almost openly fascist Alternative for Germany (AfD) might win out were simply too frightening for many East Germans. And though Haseloff is as conservative as other Christian Democratic (CDU) leaders, he has steadfastly rejected all attempts inside his party to cuddle up to AfD leaders and consider an agreement or coalition with them. A widespread fear of the far right was decisive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">This victory, even in a lesser East German state, was what you might call (if it were not for Covid sensibilities about tender spots) a \u201cshot in the arm\u201d for the \u201cChristian\u201d CDU, which had grown shaky on the national level. The sigh of relief from Armin Laschet, its less than charismatic chancellor candidate for September 26th, was almost visible\u2026\u201dWe won! Hurrah for Saxony-Anhalt!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">And the other good news? The AfD came in 16 points behind the CDU and 3.5% lower than its result five years ago. Despite its boasting predictions and the media warnings, there was no neck-and-neck dash against Haseloff and no cuddly necking with right-wingers in Haseloff\u2019s party. Not now, anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">But that\u2019s where the good news sours into bad news.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">True, the AfD lost ground with its 20.9% &#8211; in national polls it is just half that. It has nothing like the support in the U.S.A. for an increasingly extremist GOP, nor does the AfD possess such a fearsomely unifying F\u00fchrer figure. But it remains alarming enough; in much of Eastern Germany it is in second place, as in Saxony-Anhalt. Many pundits blame oldsters, \u201ctheir thinking still twisted by GDR totalitarianism.\u201d This is nonsense; the far right is not strongest with them but with disoriented, often hopeless young males who experienced the GDR only as babies and toddlers, if at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Just add them up; the AfD, whose domestic policy hardly conceals its fascist ideas, plus Haseloff\u2019s winning CDU, always on the right of the spectrum, plus the Free Democrats, bare-faced pro-capitalist, who won enough votes (6.4%) to return to the legislature in Saxony-Anhalt. The sum of 64.3% means that nearly two-thirds voted \u201cright-handed\u201d. Is that an omen for the September elections? The three horses pulling against them have proved very lame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The Social Democrats (SPD) claim to be defenders of working people and world peace were hobbled long ago when they became junior partners of their traditional CDU rivals, both in Saxony-Anhalt and on the national level. They paid dearly for this, getting a pitiful 8.3% on Sunday, so low it caused tears, almost sobs, during post-election TV interviews with their candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The Greens, hoping to break through in the East at last, got 6.1, a tiny 0.7% over 2017. And sad faces!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">But faring worst of all was the LINKE! Once proud in the saddle, with hopes of victory in a state with long working-class traditions, they lost over 5% of their supporters in five years and dropped to 11.2%! The fact that most of those they lost switched to the Christians just to keep the fascists out was no consolation. Those voters were lost! The LINKE election slogan, simply \u201cBetter &#8211; Die Linke!\u201d had been no great inspiration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Can these three parties do any better on the national level where the Social Democrats are down to 15%, pitiful enough for a party whose leader, Willy Brandt, once ruled the roost. Their current chancellor candidate, Olaf Scholz, 62, now Vice-Chancellor and Finance Minister, puts up a brave front but is facing two smelly scandals. A big financial services provider, Wirecard, high in the German charts, with ties to countless enterprises, proved phonier than \u201cBaron von Steuben\u201d! A London journalist let some air in; its debts were huge, its assets at the vacuum level of Magdeburg\u2019s hemispheres. Some board members got arrested but the biggest fish disappeared. So did 1.9 billion euros. The Scholz office, the main watchdog to prevent such shenanigans, was somehow dozing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Scholz seems to have memory problems as well. When the super-wealthy Warburg bank got caught defrauding the government in a billion-level tax rip-off, it called for help from the mayor of Hamburg, site of its main office. The mayor denied any connection &#8211; until the banker testified in court. Then he had to admit, looking very innocent, that if there was indeed such a call he had \u201cno concrete memory of the content\u201d and had never \u201cexercised any influence in the tax matter.\u201d But after more beans were spilled he finally recalled: yes, he had indeed met three times with the banker and given him tips per telephone. In the end the debt to the taxpayers went unpaid, Warburg remained unscathed. And Olaf Scholz, then Hamburg\u2019s mayor, is now the Social Democratic candidate for the job of chancellor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Who else wants the job? A major contender is the candidate of the \u201cecology\u201d party, the Greens. Annalena Baerbock, young -looking at 40, vivacious, still displaying, like her party, a whiff of its left-leaning, untraditional, feminist past, in contrast with elderly establishment gentlemen. The Greens had soared amazingly in national polls, even overtaking the Christians on some days. Baerbock was given a fighting chance to replace the retiring Angela Merkel, that other daughter of East Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Then her opponents found flies in the ointment. Stupid remarks by a few misogynists hardly registered, but even small blots in the squeaky-clean background expected of a Green candidate hit hard. Her official vita included more credits, academic and organizational, than fitted the facts. \u201cIn my brief, compressed resum\u00e9 I unintentionally offered impressions I had not wished to create. That was crappy.\u201c In her income report to the Bundestag she had neglected to mention 25,000 euros paid her by her own party. \u201cThere should have been a more careful checkup\u2026 we have learned a lesson,\u201d she noted ruefully. Minor matters, but they weakened her odds, already hit by the poor showing in Saxony-Anhalt. But more crucial matters intruded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">For reasons possibly affected by big, lucrative trade deals, some German leaders have not joined so fervently in the growing denunciations aimed belligerently at Russia and China. At times even Merkel dared to defy the commanding voices from the Pentagon, NATO-HQ in Brussels and all the media marionettes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Now the CDU candidate Armin Laschet has dared to call \u201cdemonizing Vladimir Putin not a political policy but rather an alibi for the absence of one\u201d. He criticized \u201cmarketable anti-Putin populism\u201d and, while disapproving Russian policies, said it was necessary to \u201cimagine oneself in the thinking of one\u2019s conversation partner if one wishes to engage in foreign policy relations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Even Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, never a leftist peace activist, opposed attacks, verbal or otherwise, against Russia: \u201cWe can have no interest in joining in this confrontation. We want dialogue and good neighborliness with Russia,\u201d he said and warned against \u201cthe many smart Alecs who always demand tougher and tougher measures.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Such unusual remarks were balanced enough to anger, even enrage the bellicose elements known as the \u201cAtlanticists\u201d. And among the angriest \u201csmart Alecs\u201d were leaders of the Greens like Annalena Baerbock. Aside from ecology demands such as higher gas prices and lower speed limits, which angered those forced to drive to work, and tainted by agreements with big business, who should not be \u201ctoo heavily over-taxed\u201d, a main line of Greens like Baerbock has long been that \u201ca tougher German stance toward Russia and China \u2026 should be a priority.\u201d While demanding an &#8222;increase in pressure on Russia&#8220; to counteract tanks it deployed on its own territory, she finds nary a word about NATO maneuvers along Russian coasts and frontiers far distant from German or American borders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Is one CDU-Christian wing, feeling pressure from the voters, doing some re-thinking and leaning further toward detente while the other goes all-out to build up and train aggressive modern military forces? The question also goes to the SPD, with some realistic voices now audible. Even in the Greens, pressure from their \u201cold guard\u201d is pushing against modern killers like armed drones. At their latest conference the pro-drone leadership won &#8211; but only by a very slim margin of 347 to 343 delegates. At times it almost seems like a subtle tug of war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">But what about the LINKE (Left)? Despite arguments within its ranks about Putin, about using the Bundeswehr abroad, on allying with the SPD or Greens or rejecting any such ties (now out of reach anyway), its anti-war stand was never influenced by pressures from auto-makers, agricultural monopolies, banks or greedy investors, and most certainly not from armament giants like Krupp or Rheinmetall. Unlike the others, it gets not a cent from any of them. All its policies, even those debated among its members, were related to the interests of working people, children, pensioners, and to opposing every activity by neo-Nazis. Sometimes Greens, Social Democrats, even CDUers joined in. But the LINKE were certainly the most consistent .<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">With post-Corona threats to peace internationally and to freedom domestically demanding militant fights on many issues, their voices, votes and actions will be urgently needed. But despite very promising signs at their February congress they have largely failed to meet the challenge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Some members are indeed waging a courageous battle against soaring rents in the city-state of Berlin, working to collect 225,000 signatures (175,000 approved ones) for a \u201cconfiscation\u201d referendum which is truly scaring the rent-scrouging fat cats. But on the national political scene they have largely disappeared. A hostile media plays its part. But the LINKE have consumed themselves in inner controversy: disputes about imaginary future coalitions, refugees and immigration, about a loss of contact with working people as opposed to higher-educated minorities. Most recently about \u201cidentity groups\u201d and friction with two of its best-known party personalities and most forceful orators, Sahra Wagenknecht and her husband Oskar LaFontaine. Are they to blame for splitting and weakening the party? Or are they still a force for militancy? Would Sahra win or lose votes in her state of North-Rhine-Westphalia. Should she be expelled because of damaging criticism? These questions have distracted far too many in the party from all the fights which need to be fought.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa84ef225MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Such quarrels have already gained life and death proportions! The LINKE has not only lost calamitously in Saxony-Anhalt, in the national polls it has dropped from a year-long position of about 9-11% down to its current 6-7% level. If it drops further, below the 5% needed to maintain its presence in the Bundestag, it will have basically carved itself into political impotence! I hope my next Berlin Bulletin can report a change for the better! It is so necessary!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp98f3594dMsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/info-welt.eu\/?s=Victor+Grossman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More by Victor Grossman<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ydp98f3594dMsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-26501 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2037\/12\/1-300x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2037\/12\/1-300x72.png 300w, http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2037\/12\/1-1024x245.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2037\/12\/1-768x184.png 768w, http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2037\/12\/1-1536x367.png 1536w, http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2037\/12\/1-2048x489.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 10px;\"><a title=\"zur Startseite\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrebel.de\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/back_ar.png\" alt=\"zur\u00fcck zur Startseite\" width=\"156\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1683837971860223\/permalink\/1987214344855916\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ar_zu_fb.png\" alt=\"hier geht es zur Facebook Diskussionsgruppe\" width=\"353\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#respond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deanreed.de\/AmericanRebel\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ar_kommentar-1.png\" alt=\"Sag uns deine Meinung zum Artikel mit einem Kommentar\/Leserbrief\" width=\"627\" height=\"20\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div><!-- .hide-this-part --><\/div><!-- hide-this-part-wrap --><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Grossman \u2013 16. 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