A large part of the support for PEGIDA comes from the people living in what was once East Germany. There has been a tremendous transformation since the Wall came down but it's not at all true that both sides are integrated. The only thing that ever unites an economy is equal access to work and East Germans are not yet on par with West Germans.
Whenever there is inequality, resentment comes. When the resentment comes, any pipsqueak who talks to pigeons in the park can rally them. It doesn't take much to convince them then that the best way to make their lot better is to get rid of the ones who they perceive as making it worse. If you have any gift at all with speaking, you can make 'the ones who are making it worse' just about anyone. In much of history, Jews have been the lucky winners but now they want to stamp out Muslims ... then they'll get back to stamping out Jews.
The irony is that West Germany bailed out East Germany from the Communist regime and the East Germans became, in effect, refugees in their own country. While it's not perfect, every effort was made to assimilate them but it's not complete and such things cannot complete quickly. It took a long time for the Soviets to wreck East Germany and it will take a long time to fix it.
So the ex-refugees from East Germany are the ones protesting the loudest about Muslim refugees from anywhere coming to Germany. This is what makes Cat most furious of all. Cat has a 'live and let live' attitude and she shares that with most Germans so the attention being given PEGIDA is personally insulting to her. Diese ist nicht Deutschland!
Dresden is one of the loudest supporters of PEGIDA so Cat's suggestion is to build another Wall ... around Dresden. You can have your East Germany back, we don't want you. When I tell you she is furious, I am not exaggerating by a millimeter. PEGIDA disgraces Germany and she will not sit still over it. She makes me very proud.
The solution there just as it is in the US is equal access to work. Even Hitler figured that out. If you get the people working then you've got happy people with food in their bellies and they will love you long time. There is an economic globalization happening and it's necessary, the problem is that conservatives are doing such a piss poor job of it. Rather than engineering, they're more often profiteering and that slows down the process, increases the misery, increases the probability of outfits like PEGIDA.
Whenever there is inequality, resentment comes. When the resentment comes, any pipsqueak who talks to pigeons in the park can rally them. It doesn't take much to convince them then that the best way to make their lot better is to get rid of the ones who they perceive as making it worse. If you have any gift at all with speaking, you can make 'the ones who are making it worse' just about anyone. In much of history, Jews have been the lucky winners but now they want to stamp out Muslims ... then they'll get back to stamping out Jews.
The irony is that West Germany bailed out East Germany from the Communist regime and the East Germans became, in effect, refugees in their own country. While it's not perfect, every effort was made to assimilate them but it's not complete and such things cannot complete quickly. It took a long time for the Soviets to wreck East Germany and it will take a long time to fix it.
So the ex-refugees from East Germany are the ones protesting the loudest about Muslim refugees from anywhere coming to Germany. This is what makes Cat most furious of all. Cat has a 'live and let live' attitude and she shares that with most Germans so the attention being given PEGIDA is personally insulting to her. Diese ist nicht Deutschland!
Dresden is one of the loudest supporters of PEGIDA so Cat's suggestion is to build another Wall ... around Dresden. You can have your East Germany back, we don't want you. When I tell you she is furious, I am not exaggerating by a millimeter. PEGIDA disgraces Germany and she will not sit still over it. She makes me very proud.
The solution there just as it is in the US is equal access to work. Even Hitler figured that out. If you get the people working then you've got happy people with food in their bellies and they will love you long time. There is an economic globalization happening and it's necessary, the problem is that conservatives are doing such a piss poor job of it. Rather than engineering, they're more often profiteering and that slows down the process, increases the misery, increases the probability of outfits like PEGIDA.
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