ALLIANCE FO§ DEMOCRACY

CDU Party Congress 2016 – The Procedure

Angela Merkel is running for re-election in 2017. She wants to be chancellor again, but only on the condition that she remains party chairwoman. At least this is what she told the DTS news agency this past September, at a time when she had still not confirmed her intention to run again. This news was Merkel’s way of giving notice to her fellow party members about the conditions under which she would remain at the helm. We can assume that the Christian Democrats were horribly frightened that Merkel would not run again. There were surely ready-made madmen with a hole in the brain and enough hubris in the heart aspiring to the office, but considering the fact that, with Brexit, the EU is no longer a union, they preferred to turn tail and run away. The only thing left now is the end of the euro. If Merkel wants to stay on as party leader, everyone at the party congress, which starts on 6 December in Essen, will vote for her. Thus, responsibility for the state’s insolvency remains with this combined post. We at the Alliance for Democracy may be at the fringe in thinking that the posts of party chairwoman and chancellor should not be held by the same person. Because it leads to entanglements that encourage excessive power and dictatorship, and not the debate and collaborative effort that the chancellor is always preaching. Such is the case with the refugee issue. Pity that politicians always follow their own system instead of proactively making real policy. To do that, Merkel and her cabinet would have had to resign a long time ago. The procedure in this election will have the blessing, as it always does, of outgoing U.S. President Obama, the friend who eavesdrops on his friends. In addition, we hear the same speeches, and the same words in the interviews.
The chancellor says she wants to serve her country: “My goal in politics is to strive for unity in our country. […] We want to spar with one another like democrats.” She says she is looking forward to the political skirmishes of the coming months. “I want to conduct them like democrats and with a democratic tone.” That is incomprehensible to the Alliance for Democracy, because we don’t see anything good coming from any of it, not even unity. In fact, Merkel’s politics at the moment are like a parade of many small steps that must be scrupulously followed: the procedure. Not a legal procedure, but a strategy for power.
The primary objective is to secure the party leadership position and gain the approval of all political camps. Then, the goal is to wrap the Young Christian Democrats around her finger, and earn the approval of the U.S. elites before announcing what everyone in the CDU (and abroad, i.e. in the USA) already knew. Given this procedure, we can assume there are other things the voters aren’t supposed to know. For example, the fact that all euro countries are bankrupt. That Italy is in worse shape than Greece. That Italy can’t be saved, because it cannot repay its debts and the bailout schemes have no funding. They only offer loan guarantees to the countries that seek them. They have no money to support the country. All of the other euro countries share the same fate. This makes it clear that the EU is threatened by insolvency and the collapse of the euro, the unique experiment that only politicians and bankers wanted, and which is now coming to an end. Now it’s all about the conversion rate. For a long time, this was unknown or unclear, but it can now be expected to be about 5% now. This means 100 marks for every thousand euros. Marks, mind you! Emergency laws will have to be passed to ensure this revaluation. The idea for this apportionment originated with the Federal Ministry of Finance a year ago now. According to this proposition, banks and indebted countries are to be rescued by private creditors, which means all of us. For all state coffers, including Germany’s, a haircut means debt relief or elimination of debt. This means a reduction in all holdings, salaries, income, benefits, insurance plans, pensions, etc. (by up to 40%). We can therefore assume that the insurance and banking industries are informed about the impending crash and will act accordingly. But the voters know nothing about it. That is the biggest dog that the Merkel keeps hidden in the dungeons of the Bundestag. Another one is that the IMF has lost control over the world’s currency values.
How Angela Merkel intends to serve Germany under these circumstances is an open question. So is the question of whether she would otherwise know what to do with the rest of her life. There may be a procedure in place for Merkel’s re-election, and for our downfall with her or any other politician who might have a chance. Like no other before it, this election shows how much politicians have reduced our potential; and how entertaining partisan skirmishes can be on an expensively financed stage in Berlin. None of this is of any use to the voters. Their only chance to end all this is the right of codetermination, which is still fundamentally theirs to use. But that is too small a political achievement.