Security is freedom from people who want freedom
A rare bit of objectivity and insight by a political Expert. Gilbert Doctorow writes about AfD with perfect fairness, adding some info that I hadn't known before.

Info not heard before:

Following its annexation in 1990, the new bosses in the West purged East Germany of all its leaders, not merely the cadres of the Communist Party that governed the country or the Stasi secret police that spied on the citizenry and reported to Moscow, but all the professionals. ... The East German elites were replaced at the top of local society by carpetbaggers from the West, very often second or third rate opportunists.

In parallel, East Germany underwent de-industrialization. With very few exceptions such as the Karl Zeiss enterprise in Jena, East German factories were shuttered and no new manufacturers of scale appeared. East Germany became little more than an incremental consumer market for the West. Consequently its economic indices remain at just 73% of Western levels, and this is set to decline to just 66% by 2045.

Unusual fairness and insight:

What we hear about the AfD in mainstream media tends to be condescending, at best, scornful more commonly. The party’s rise is attributed to one issue: its anti-immigration policy. It is dismissed as xenophobic and nationalistic. Its members are assumed to be “deplorables,” if we may borrow Hilary Clinton’s pungent characterization of their assumed moral equivalents in the USA.

Mainstream occasionally reminds us that the homeland of the AfD is the territory of the former GDR. And it is taken as axiomatic that xenophobia and nationalism would have festered there because of the region’s Communist past, so unlike the open and sophisticated society of West Germany.

Meanwhile, the Ossie origins of the AfD contribute greatly to the rest of its party platform outside of opposition to immigrants. We hear much less about this in mainstream media except when they speculate on the chances of its entering into a coalition with the main traditional parties of Germany and try to match up policies. We find here not merely Euro-skepticism, but opposition to NATO, plus calls for ending sanctions on Russia. These last points we normally associate with the Left of the political spectrum, but they are in keeping with the predisposition of a large part of the population in what was the GDR to trade with and have normal relations with Russia as they did in the distant past.

In other fucking words, the Ossies had a better life under the Soviets.

They had less "freedom", but they had more PRODUCTIVE WORK and more SECURITY.

"Freedom" is not quite trivial, but normal people would GLADLY trade "freedom" for PRODUCTIVE WORK and SECURITY.

Our vicious virulent elites constantly misquote Franklin to instruct us that "freedom" is the only thing that matters, constantly call us SOYBOYS LOSERS 47% TAKERS MOMMY'S BASEMENT if we prefer to be ALIVE and WORKING.

FUCK OFF, you demonic monsters.

I first appreciated this point 50 years ago.

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When I was in prison in '69, I learned the difference between professional criminals and lawbreakers. One manifestation of this difference is the attitude toward walls. Pro criminals enjoy most aspects of prison. They get to practice and learn their trade in a controlled lab environment, with hacks ready to halt a fight that gets too deadly. The inmate government offers valuable internships in white-collar crime, learning how to bribe and blackmail real officials. Pro criminals get food and housing without the hassle of maintaining a harem for welfare checks. All fine and dandy, EXCEPT the walls. Knowing that the walls restrict MY TOTAL FREEDOM is the one hitch in the setup. Pro criminals, like Randians and techbullies and stockbrokers, need MY TOTAL FREEDOM above all else. The rest of us need walls to protect us from all four castes.

Non-pro lawbreakers are not bothered in the slightest by the walls. Non-pros are the disposable materials for the lab sessions, like wire in an electronics lab or formaldehyded frogs in a bio lab. They aren't worried about walls or freedom. They're too busy unsuccessfully fending off rapes and beatings by the pro criminals.

Needless to say, Soros doesn't miss a point, never skips a chance to commit infinite evil. Soros wants to break prison walls as well as national boundaries, letting the pro criminals loose to rape and rob and murder all poor people. Eugenics by proxy.

= = = = = END FUCKING REPRINT.


Sidenote: Brazil is an example of the SECURITY side more than the WORK side. Brazil's industries are relatively healthy, but the former regime neutered the police and favored the gangs. Crime was totally out of control. Bolsonaro promises to fix it... if he survives. The regime+gangs already tried to kill him, and presumably will keep trying.

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter, Make or break

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