A guest article by Vera Lengsfeld
Does anyone still remember the Oder flood? At the time, Chancellor Kohl was on hand to get an update on the situation. Matthias Platzeck, then Minister of the Environment and later Minister President of Brandenburg, gained nationwide notoriety as the "dike count" because he was on the scene day and night. Chancellor Merkel is in the USA to collect her umpteenth honorary doctorate. Visibly in good spirits, unshaken by the catastrophe in the country she governs. She couldn't make it any clearer how much Germany is the furthest thing from her mind.
Is there anything missing from the coverage in the state-supporting media? Exactly: Merkel's absenteeism, which would have been beaten around the ears by any other chancellor, is not being addressed. Without this servility, Merkel could not act as she does.
But even those who are upset that Armin Laschet addressed a lady as "young woman" apparently think our chancellor's absence is fine. They surely fully understand that such an honor is more important than the need in the country.
When Queen Elizabeth II refused to visit the site of the biggest mining accident in England's history, she was finally forced to do so by the outraged public. This is how a democratic society with mature citizens reacts. In Germany, the social climate is now so poisoned that such a terrible affliction, with the number of victims still rising, is unabashedly exploited by the climate lobby. Whereas the floods on the Oder River in 1997 were correctly attributed to certain weather phenomena, today there is only talk of heavy rain and flooding being caused by "climate change". There is even talk of heat damage in this cold summer, when we are jittering towards heat death.
The worst thing: Hardly anyone dares to contradict, for fear of public stigmatization.
When I think of Germany at night... Source HERE
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