In the midst of this German political season....is the political party known as "der Partei" (The Party). It's a group of individuals....formed up as a political party in 2004....out of Berlin. In simple terms....they've lost respect for democracy, the Constitution, and politics in general. They see it all as theatrics and comedy. So it's a political joke of a political party and every theme or position is bogus in nature.
Membership? In terms of actual paying-members....they now number 25,000. In 2013's election....they got almost forty-thousand votes. In the 2017 election? One might take a guess that they will go past the forty-five-thousand point.
In the past year, they surprised people by infiltrating the AfD membership....getting blessed as administrators on forty-odd AfD Facebook pages, and then in one swift move....they took control and pointed all stories on the AfD page over to the Partei's pages.
A growing lack of trust in democracy? It's a sign of the times. In twenty years, I suspect that they will be able to pull 300,000 votes from across Germany.
It's one of those things that if it ever got introduced in the US and had some smart guys running it....I think it'd get 10-percent of the US vote very easily.
I won't say that it's stupid or an abuse of society. It's just that society has seen all of the opera-like devices at work, and thinks that democracy is simply scripted out and fake.
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