Whoever is surprised about the election results to the German states of Thuringia and Saxony which saw the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) make stunning gains, should consider what has been happening to Germany in the past nine years. Enforced Islamic mass migration is a minority agenda of the cultural Left, but the majority of the population is fed-up with it, signalling a brewing conflict between post-democratic elites in Berlin and Brussels and the general public.
Nobody knows how many people migrated to Germany over the last nine years. Estimates vary. At least four million. Maybe six. The newcomers are predominantly young men, from very different cultural backgrounds than the Christian natives.
In August 2015, Angela Merkel opened Germany’s borders to all Syrian refugees, the migrants then piling on the Balkan route, effectively suspending asylum statutes and selling it to the public as a humanitarian act. This move aligned with former UN migration chief Peter Sutherland’s vision of revitalizing Europe’s population by bringing in young people from the Middle East. Sutherland had announced in September 2015 that Germany would accept at least 3.2 million people by 2021.
Hardly anyone in Germany knew of the plan. Even members of Merkel’s cabinet believed she was merely providing generous emergency aid. Only when the borders stayed open and the ‘refugees’ kept flooding in, it dawned on some that she was following an inverted colonization scheme designed by the UN and key players of the European Union (EU) in Brussels.
Neither Sutherland nor Merkel considered grave the socio-cultural consequences of the venture. Maybe they did and had ulterior motives. In any case, it did neither Germany nor Europe any good. Germany is a welfare state. As Milton Friedman pointed out, welfare states aren’t compatible with open borders. For people from poor countries, however, free monthly benefits from the German state are often equivalent to more than a year’s average salary at home.
In 2023, variations of ‘Mohammed’ were among the top names for newborn boys in many major German cities. Over half of Germany’s social expenses were directed toward newly arrived migrants, even as impoverished pensioners struggled. Simultaneously, about 2.6 lakh highly-skilled Germans, largely young professionals, left the country, driven away by high taxes, low wages, and declining security—potentially undermining the future economic backbone of the nation.
Meanwhile, German municipalities were bursting at the seams. German municipalities were overwhelmed as container camps for young men from Syria and Afghanistan were established in small villages, often against local opposition. Rather than addressing the growing crisis, the government continued to incentivize migration. In July 2024, a new law allowed immigrants to gain dual citizenship and voting rights after just three years. The integration commissioner, of Syrian descent, announced this in Arabic on ‘X’ from Cairo.
The ruling coalition hopes that these ‘prey Germans’ will support their parties, but this approach effectively disenfranchises the native population, devalues citizenship, and undermines the foundations of their once liberal and democratic society.
Germany’s immigration policy is equally self-destructive on other levels. Confronted with the supposed western ‘decadence,’ upset Muslims tend to revert to their ‘religious roots’ and radicalize.
This is followed by a parallel increase in Jew-hatred and a steep rise in crime. Young Muslims are three to four times more ‘criminogenic’ than their German counterparts. Gang rapes and knife attacks, rare in pre-2015 Germany, are seeing a revival. Simultaneously, critics of Islam face threats and entire neighbourhoods are under the thrall of the imported religious dress-code. Discussing these issues is taboo, with anyone who does labelled as ‘right-wing,’ ‘racist,’ or ‘Islamophobic.’ Muslim immigration breeds false political correctness and kills free speech. While thousands of migrants unmolested by the police openly celebrate Adolf Hitler, wish Jews into gas chambers and call for the introduction of Sharia law and the Caliphate, the government is denouncing the opposition AfD as the key threat to democracy and a Nazi-party revenant. The AfD is ‘right-wing’ alright, but that is largely due to incessant demonization by established parties.
Meanwhile, it is not just liberal-minded Muslims, under attack by self-proclaimed jihadists and their left-wing allies, but anybody openly sceptical of Islam is under threat.
The election results in Thuringia and Saxony must be seen against this background. They reflect nine years of unchecked, ideology driven, state-sponsored mass-migration. Germans, generally more compliant than the French, are increasingly fed up with state-imposed multiculturalism, sanitized language, climate alarmism, and identity politics. East Germans, having endured 40 years of Socialist propaganda and double-standards, are particularly resistant to such narratives compared to their Western counterparts. The relentless urge of the enlightened few to ‘educate’ them in identity-politics nauseates them.
The anointed circles in Berlin refuse to grasp this. The Left-Green establishment, the media, the state-subsidized cultural sector and their narcissistic bubble of ‘fat cats’ are in a different galaxy than the majority. They behave like the French aristocracy on the eve of the Revolution, without vaguely possessing the charms of Marie Antoinette.
Many left-wing voters also oppose unchecked migration. The Christian Democrats face a dilemma: if they block the AfD and ally with the left, they risk alienating their own supporters. Weekend after next, there are elections in Brandenburg. Should the Christian Democrats move Leftwards, it would only strengthen the AfD and cement the abyss between the populace and the ruling caste. Then, things could get nasty!
(The author is an historian and novelist who writes historically-aware crime fiction. He is currently working on a book on Germany’s migration crisis. Views personal)
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