There, but for the Grace of God, Goes America
Germany is teaching us a lesson, one to which we should pay attention.
Germany is just another example of why I think the left’s agenda, and the left itself, is unsustainable. Germany is a laboratory for what the left’s agenda and is generally representative of the policies of the Democrat Party here in the United States.
A few facts:
Germany has spent trillions of dollars on “sustainable” and “renewable” energy.
But despite spending over 1.25 trillion dollars, Germany has the second highest electricity prices in Europe, carbon emissions roughly 10 times that of nuclear-powered France and is currently studying providing firewood for heat this winter in the event their Russian natural gas supply is cut off – which Russia is in the process of doing.
German politics is highly influenced by the far left Green Party.
The Green Party currently holds 67 of the 709 seats in the German parliament, certainly nowhere near a majority, but big enough to create coalitions and influence German policy. The German Greens are an amalgamation of left-wing environmental and peace-focused groups and the anti-nuclear power movement, absorbing the East German Green Party after reunification.
Germany led the way for open borders in the EU.
During the migrant “crisis” due to wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, Germany openly welcomed “refugees”. At one point, 75% of the migrants were living off the state, costing German taxpayers over 20 billion euros a year (approximately $25 billion). Most of the remaining 25% are working low-skilled jobs, such as cleaning, and still need some level of state support. Only about 25% of the migrants even have a high school diploma, and the majority are illiterate in their own language, let alone learning German. The refusal or inability to assimilate created areas that were no longer German in nature and Germany was subjected to an increase in violence and crime due to the migrant surge.
The German government took children away from parents simply because they were being home schooled.
In 2013, four children, ages 7 to 14, were “forcibly taken from their Darmstadt, Germany, home by police armed with a battering ram, and their parents have been told they wouldn’t see them again soon, all over the issue of homeschooling, according to a stunning report from the Home School Legal Defense Association.”
Every one of these is tied to the beliefs of the political and economic left in Germany – and none of them are sustainable.
So much of Germany’s actions parallel those of the Democrats here in the US, particularly during the Biden administration. We are getting a preview of our future if we continue down the same path.
Biden is all in on the Green agenda, his first action as president was to fire the first shot in a war on the American hydrocarbon industry. He has opened our borders and allowed a literal flood, an invasion, of illegal aliens to enter and stay in America, resulting in a similar profile of the migrant community as in Germany. Biden is hostile toward any form of choice in education, working to prevent any learning outside government schools. This one is not really a surprise because in yet another connection between the Democrats and the German left, Obama tried to deport a German family, the Romeike’s, for coming to America because they wanted to home school their children - while refusing to deport illegal aliens.
And yet, there but for the Grace of God, go we.
The most obvious of predictors is that all of Germany’s actions are a house of cards, and that house is beginning to crumble now that their decades old leftist policies are collapsing due to their reliance on Russian natural gas.
In 2018, President Trump warned Merkel and the German people, saying:
“Reliance on a single foreign supplier can leave a nation vulnerable to extortion and intimidation. That is why we congratulate European states, such as Poland, for leading the construction of a Baltic pipeline so that nations are not dependent on Russia to meet their energy needs. Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course. Here in the Western Hemisphere, we are committed to maintaining our independence from the encroachment of expansionist foreign powers."
And, once again, Trump has been proven correct.
In another commonality, Biden is NOT “committed to maintaining our independence from the encroachment of expansionist foreign powers”, rather he seeks to submit to them on the energy front as he sells off our National Petroleum Reserve and chokes our own energy production into submission to the Green agenda.
I've long noted that high minded ideas are worthless to a hungry man with a hungry family. The climate agenda, as is much of the left's agenda, are luxury beliefs only the wealthiest among them can afford to indulge. The only reason most of the left's army sustains such luxury beliefs is that they live essentially on scholarships funded by the wealthy and when the scholarships are pulled, they will find they have no survival skills to speak of.
Germany is about to get a hard lesson in that reality now that Russia is cutting off the gas...and if Biden declares a "climate emergency" here in the US, we won't be far behind.
Let’s learn the lesson we are being taught right before our eyes before it costs us dearly.
Life can be very difficult when you allow ideology to ignore facts.
The discredited theory of Soft Power is based on economic co-dependency; if Russia or China is dependent economically on us, they will be peaceful and in return, have nothing to fear from us as we rely on them for natural resources. There is no Plan B, because to do so would introduce mistrust in the "agreement". You have to be "all in". As a result, Western Powers bound from one "crisis" to another, induced by dependency on just one source - in Germany's case: Russia, who apparently had a Plan B. See: https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/current-account