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After the left's election victory: Welcome to the Islamic-socialist hellish dictatorship

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“This is really scaring me,” complains Julius Böhm (Nius) into the camera, showing how young voters in Berlin voted: 43 percent of them for the left. What exactly scares him? “Because it means that young people have to be stupid,” is his razor-sharp analysis. He speaks of “young, poor, sad people” who have “no idea about economics” and therefore choose a policy that stands for “bread lines, for people who are starving, for misery”.

The Berlin election victory of the Left Party triggered a real meltdown in the bubble of right-wing and right-wing radical media activists, but also in parts of the capital's press. “Berlin at the end,” writes Felix Dachsel, head of the reporting department at Spiegel. And Benedikt Brechtken from Apollo News spoke with contempt of “completely crazy” Berlin voters. Also a classic: the invocation of the now approaching socialist tyranny.

The tone had already been set by AfD party leader Alice Weidel the evening before, who raved about a “hard-left alliance with shooting the rich, taking away capitalists, expropriating, capping rents”. On Monday, the middle class jumped on this bandwagon. The FDP politician Karoline Preisler styled herself as the first victim of the new socialism: "The party supporters killed my friends in the GDR. I know socialist dictatorship and find it difficult to bear to be exposed to brutality again."

But a new Stalinism, for some that is not blatant enough. "The young Berlin women have chosen the caliphate. Burqa instead of bare midriff," explained Thorsten Alsleben, managing director of the New Social Market Economy Institute (INSM), in the purest AfD tone. And Maral Salmassi, to whom the CDU once donated hundreds of thousands of euros to the fight against anti-Semitism, equated the left's election victory with the mullahs' seizure of power in Iran: "What is currently happening in Berlin is something we have already experienced in Iran."

And then of course there is Ulf Poschardt, probably the most influential man in the Axel Springer publishing house, who said: “Everyone is afraid of 1933. The real danger is 1949: the return of the GDR – and with Arab Islamofascists on board.” In another video, Poschardt apparently spoke in reference to Green voters, among other things, of “hobbyless, honorless, godless Berlin-Mitte spackers” who have now received their receipt: “Your party will form a coalition with this party, this oath of disclosure from these bourgeois milieus is now really starting.”

This is the quintessence of this discourse, which is quite dangerous because of its alliance of right-wing extremist crackpots and influential capital city journalists: A smear campaign is being prepared whose target is not even the Left, but the Greens and the SPD, so that they do not enter into a coalition with the Left. “Your anti-fascism is worth nothing if it only applies to the right, but fascist ideologies like the mullahs and Hamas are accepted for housing policy,” said Anna Staroselski from the Values ​​Initiative, summing up this line.

The fight against anti-Semitism is thus being exploited in an unspeakable way. Because at the end of this anti-left firewall there is a demand for the CDU to help the right-wing extremist, anti-Semitic AfD come to power - in order to stop the left. “Finally put an end to this firewall nonsense,” demands Alice Weidel. Well, cheers! This author prefers to live in the new socialist dictatorship.

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