Willi Brandt once saw a stable majority on the left of centre in Germany. That ended yesterday at the latest. In Germany, the majority is now, without a doubt, on the right of centre. The oft-invoked ‘will of the people’ is clear: they want a right-wing government that pursues staunchly conservative policies. Anyone who takes democracy seriously must say: let them get on with it!
The debacle for the so-called ‘Ampel’ parties is almost beyond words. At the forefront, the SPD. With a loss of almost ten percentage points and a result of 16 per cent, it is clearly on the way to become a small party and at the same time to go to insignificance. If it now recklessly enters into a coalition with the CDU, in which it will lose its profile completely, it will be ranked among the smallest parties in the next election and will probably go under. The Greens are marginalised and the FDP has disappeared. Bravo, the Coalition of Hope has jumped high, tried to save the world under Green leadership and landed hard in the next dirt hole.
Particularly noteworthy in this election is the east-west distribution. The east is almost entirely AfD-blue, signalling that people there have had enough of the climate prophets and social romantics. They want to live in peace and security, with as little contact as possible with the outside world and without hearing every day that the earth is on fire. They want growth, jobs and exactly the prosperity that they have been promised for 35 years, but which has never come for the masses. The west is predominantly black for similar reasons, especially in the south and southwest, where the CDU and CSU are still associated with the “economic miracle”. Measured against this, however, the CDU, with its 28 per cent, has by no means achieved a glorious result.
CDU/CSU and AfD must form a coalition
On balance, there is only one sensible solution: the CDU and CSU must form a coalition with the AfD. They have a comfortable majority and their party programmes are so similar that they can even avoid long coalition negotiations. For reasons of political hygiene, Friedrich Merz of the AfD must, before the start of coalition talks, demand that the AfD publicly and officially distance themselves from all suspicious statements they have made in the past regarding Germany’s Nazi past. The AfD party leadership will accept this without grumbling, for the sake of coming to power.
Additionally, Merz is able to negotiate away the AfD’s idiotic European policy ideas, because the AfD itself knows that they are pure fantasy. Even Ukraine is no longer an obstacle since the American president is a Putin sympathiser. The good transatlanticist Merz always does what the Americans say anyway, so sooner or later he will also reveal himself to be a Putin sympathiser. This coalition will immediately receive the highest blessing in this world, namely that from Washington. Elon Musk will personally appear in Berlin to accept Merz and Weidel’s political yes-word.
Everything else is cramp
I can already see the good people shaking their heads violently. No, no, it cannot be that the way to power is paved for these people from the far right. But it has to be. That’s what is called democracy. The people have to experience first hand that the alternative is not an alternative and that the CDU is at least as bad at economics as the Liberals. Those who stand in the way of such a coalition now are paving the way for the AfD to take the Chancellery in four years’ time – Austria sends its regards.
The SPD must refuse to support the CDU if it wants to survive. It should immediately turn its favourite motto around. It should now read ‘first the party, then the country’. Anyone who thinks that a coalition with Friedrich Merz can be inferred from the experience with Angela Merkel is a fool. No state can be made with a chancellor who, just three days ago, warned against left-wing and green idiots. Since Merz can always threaten to switch to a coalition with the AfD, every coalition partner is at his mercy. A few weeks ago, Merz emphatically confirmed how unpredictable he is with his five-point programme on migration. This foray also showed that Merz has no understanding of European issues. Those who form a coalition with him must sell not only their soul but also their intellect.
The CDU/CSU and AfD can only be demystified if they take responsibility and try to implement their economic policy programme. Then they will either have to throw all their prejudices regarding national debt, taxes and the preferential treatment of the rich overboard or fail miserably. A real turnaround will only be possible if the general public, especially in eastern Germany, sees that the AfD is no alternative and does nothing for ordinary people. Anyone who tinkers around in a grand coalition without really being successful is doing the AfD’s business.