wo dangerous trends are coalescing in Germany: the deterioration of private life and the tyrannization of politics. The latter comes to light in the persecution of any political opinion marginally different from that of the government.
Private life deteriorates under pressure from a stagnant economy with its withering welfare state. Unending tax hikes are coupled with the erosion and increasing unreliability of social benefits.
There is another aspect of the regress of private life in Germany. In a rare tour behind the official German media façade, journalist Liv von Boetticher tells of a police force in deep moral decline, of runaway crime, and of law enforcement institutions more concerned with suppressing political viewpoints than stopping crime.
The report by von Boetticher, low-key as it is, offers a frightening example of the forces behind European societal disintegration. Originally published in Die Welt on June 19th (where it appears to be inaccessible from the U.S.), this story is comprehensively covered by U.S. news site Breitbart:
The journalist said she was prompted to come forwards [sic] with what she’d learnt after noticing … officers told a very different and unvarnished account of Germany after official interviews had finished and the cameras stopped rolling.
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