Comments on: “Our democracy” in Germany

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:50:55 +0000

One of the surveys done in Germany in the last year concluded that 40% of the respondents wanted the AfD banned. Recent surveys put the level of support of the four consequential leftoid parties at 40% in sum.
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The most recent call for banning AfD came from the Defense minister, one Boris Pistorious.

By: Skip

Skip — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:57:59 +0000

Visited Munich 1 day in 1980 while in USAF, won’t be going again if I wanted to.
Doesn’t surprise me the Socialists would try to ban/ stop opponents because that’s what they do. Wait until they get enough power here and you will see.

By: SENNACHERIB

SENNACHERIB — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:10:28 +0000

Banning the Afd would hand them the country.

By: Hubert

Hubert — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:06:20 +0000

I lived and worked in Munich in the 1980s. It was spotless. Public transportation was clean, safe, and reliable. No graffiti anywhere. No slums. Small parks and green spaces throughout the city (I lived in Cosimapark, next to a garden allotment area with a beer garden). Everything worked.

I had a couple of British and American colleagues who were applying for German residency/citizenship. They had to demonstrate near-native fluency in German, both spoken and written.

I was last in Munich in 1998, when I took a fast train down from Göttingen for the day. It was mostly unchanged but there were some signs of strain from reunification. The streets were less clean and I noticed graffiti on the walls at the Ostbahnhof–something that wouldn’t have been tolerated ten years before.

A friend’s daughter visited Bavaria last month. The airport staff she encountered on arrival couldn’t speak German apart from repeating “Geradeaus”–“straight ahead”. Fortunately, she was taken in tow by a Lufthansa pilot and guided through passport and customs control.

I’d like to see Munich again but now I’m wondering whether it would be best to remember it as it was.

Merkel was a disaster. God knows why Germans voted for her. Or what they thought they were getting.

By: John Galt III

John Galt III — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:40:19 +0000

Selfly and RL2,

I had friends take the Jagdkurs to obtain a Jagdschein.

6 months of training to get your hunting license and that allows a German to have a rifle. To have a handgun there are more persmissions required and the same sometimes for ammo. Very convoluted.

The disarming of Germans did not happen under Hitler but in the Weimar period preceding.

I live in Montana so I go here:

https://machinegunsmontana.com/

By: John Galt III

John Galt III — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:32:56 +0000

Marlene,

Of course you can quote me.

As far as Merkel is concerned – my favorite is this short video:

https://en.yenisafak.com/turkiye/funny-video-of-merkel-chucking-german-flag-to-the-side-resurfaces-3647038

By: Selfy

Selfy — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:49:22 +0000

R2L wrote “What is the status of the right to bear arms in modern day Germany?”
I have read in an online forum that civilian gun ownership is tightly restricted, e.g. Concealed Carry is generally verboten.

By: HC68

HC68 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:22:49 +0000

It’s really very simple. All over the West, a transnational political/social/economic Establishment is under siege from various groups and movements all lumped together under the ‘populist’ label, though in fact they are very heterogeneous (and some of them in fact detest each other). They all, however, are against the Establishment in one way or another.

That power establishment is fighting for its own survival and power and status. It’s all excuses and pretexts. There are attempts to ban AfD in Germany for the precise same reason that they weaponized the legal system against Trump before 2024. It’s the same reason they tried to debank Farage in Britain. It’s why they’re waging lawfare against Marine le Pen in France. It’s happening all over the West.

The details vary, the pretexts vary, the various ‘populist’ groups are sometimes themselves very sketchy and some of them are implacably opposed to each other as well. But it’s still the same overall struggle everywhere.

By: Marlene

Marlene — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 03:56:48 +0000

Gregory Harper, 7:36 pm:
“… The mother alerted the driver but he didn’t speak German and refused to stop the bus to let the mother off until the next stop. Incidents like this are no longer unusual.”

That’s appalling! And so distressing.
More people in America need to know about these European immigration consequences.
I so wish America had a mandate that made English the official language!!
Meaning that politicians plus civil servants plus public service employees must be fluent in English!

By: Marlene

Marlene — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 03:47:08 +0000

John Galt III, @11:28 pm.
Such an important, fact-ful reply
May I quote parts of it in other forums?