Dear friends,
This is my very first blog and as I'm not a nativer speaker, there might be some mistakes. If you find them you can keep them and use them to make posters of dumb Germans.
But at this point of the current hustings I can't help but to write a few words. Well – more than a few words. This is a warning from Germany.
Whenever I talked to American friends most of them seemed to be confident that the democratic constitution of your country will never be defied, whatever might happen, thinking of it like an undestructable monolith.
Others again gave up all their hopes. thinking that whoever they'd vote for or if they didn't vote at all , it wouldn't matter. It wouldn't change anything.
Both of these groups are wrong so far as it concerns the current state of the hustings in your country right now.
Now to the first group of people I mentioned : You are wrong. Absolutely wrong. A democracy – any democrazy is vulnerable. It needs to be protected like a helpless toddler. This we had to learn here in Europe repeatedly. Both, the voters as well as the politicians have to take care of it before anyone abuse it and takes it from you. And please don't mention now anyting about American exeptionalism. You aren't exexeptional because democracy is never exeptional. It's a sensitive and vulnerable form of government and that applies to the U.S. as much as like to any other country in the world.
The second group are the ones who want to neglect your whole government. By refusing to vote. Which means it doesn't matter to them if it's abused or not.
Sooo… now you, USA, you have got a situation.
You got a two party system, but the establishment of the second party, the GOP has lost any control, given it over to a bunch of fascists and the establishment doesn't hold any power anymore above the teabagger, evangelicals and their cracy mob. Even former hardliners like Cheney or Schwarzenegger don't hold any power anymore, even the former councelor of the late former President Ronald Reagan (who btw began to destruct your democracy) states that the nowadays GOP is a club uf illiterates. And then the the real moderate conservatives who are right now fleeing to the Democrats. They won't be able to prevent either Trump or Cruz as the GOP candidate. Trump can quote Mussolini from his speakers desk and invite his followers to hurt or kill people , insuring them that he'd pay for their lawyers without any consequences.
And what you're doing ? The democrats, the progressives, the only people left who could prevent a totalitarian system ? You are fighting each other, even threatening each other.
And now….here comes my history lesson. We had in Germany a very similar situation. In 1933 when the social democrates and the socialists fought each other while the fascist party used the oportunity to take over all the power.
And yes, the fascists and their mob won. You know what happened after that.
Hitler was a moron but the billionares who supported him weren't. Trump might be a moron. But the billionaires who support him aren't. Should I mention the Koch bros? Hitler had similar people providing him with money. But nonetheless Hitler'd never won if both of the left parties would have stick together.
So, this is my message: I know, if Sanders won't be elected as the candidate of the Democrats would be a bummer. But then you should vote for Clinton instead of poutingly stay away from the elections . Or you'll get someting much worse. Stop fighting each other or you'll lose your democratic republic. And then? What?