By Jorge Martin Political earthquake in Germany. Or rather, two political earthquakes in one night, one in Berlin, the other in Mecklenburg - Western Pomerania. To which you have to add the other political earthquake two weeks ago in Saxony-Anhalt. Merz is in difficulties. Visibly shaken on election night, he vowed to continue with his government's program of "reforms" - read an all out assault on pensions, the health service and long-term care. Let's recap. On Sept 6, the ruling party CDU was decisively defeated in Saxony-Anhalt, losing 20 percentage points (from 37 to 17), with the reactionary right populist AfD winning a clear victory, with over 43% of the vote. Tonight, the CDU has received less than 5% of the vote in Mecklenburg West Pomerania, a crushing defeat, which will mean the party will not be represented in the state parliament for the first time in history! The AfD has come first, with over 38% of the vote, 21 points more than 5 years ago. In Berlin, the...
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51