The Economist published a ridiculous article on Frau Merkel, very much endorsing her to win the German Chancellorship for a third time. It starts off by saying how much they have criticised her for her policies and in so many ways that she had done a very poor job, with which the Economist objected. BUT!
BUT they say, what if instead of the Frau there were to be a left wing coalition, including de Linke!!! Quiver, quiver, shake shake! Such horror! No! We can’t have that so we must have this miserable, bigoted, small minded failure yet again, or else? What will the world come to?
It is a miserable article ending with the hope that The Frau will wish to be remembered as “a decider and not a ditherer”, clean forgetting that she is a proven ditherer and unlikely to change now, especially if she has won a third time on her record of dithering and fudging and kicking the can down the road.
But even more destructive austerity, inhuman Merkel is better than, oh my God! Dare I even say it! A mildly pink coalition, far removed from anything remotely resembling red!
What the Economist fails to appreciate, however, is that all these Merkel shenanigans masquerading as ‘policy’ are precisely what has pushed Europe so much nearer the edge of some kind of red revolution. Even a pink one. So if the Economist is really so terrified of a Red Revolution in Europe, it should be rooting for a mildly pink coalition in Germany that would put an end to this idiotic, catastrophic, economically disastrous policy, pushing people to the brink of revolution, that the Merkel Chancellorship has imposed on Europe.
But that, I suppose, would be too imaginative for them. Never mind. I would like to dedicate the following ditty to them and all those who think like the Economist. (I am sure Walter Bagehot is turning in his grave).
