For the past twenty-four hours, it's been on my mind.....this discussion in recent days of Nazi-this and Nazi-that.....going on in Germany.
Other than black clothing and Heil-Hitler salutes, and some facial covering.....there's zero proof of Nazi activity.
The riots in Hamburg last summer? You could say that they were anti-capitalists, but is there any real proof of that? NO.
What you have developing (both in the US and in Europe) are folks who rent themselves out. You need sixty guys who are prone to be extremely violent and confrontational? You can recruit your crowd for 200 to 300 Euro each. You tell them to put on the Nazi shirts and shout heil-Hitler.....or you tell them to be anti-capitalist and smash shop windows.
Are journalists even able to recognize this trend? Not really. As far as they are concerned.....there can't be fake Nazis or fake radicals. The same can be said for politicians and their handlers.
So could you as a nation, be led into some fake agenda situation, with a couple of provocateurs running some fake political agenda? Yes. Imagine Hitler's machine today, having to deal in the early 1930s with some fake communist group, or some fake ultra-socialist group.
Could all of this lead Merkel's coalition government to make some bold and stupid leadership decisions? That's what you really have to wonder about. If they went and started to push the German intelligence folks to follow and do undercover work on the AfD....it would anger enough people, but Merkel could logically say that they were doing Nazi-business or having some Nazi-slant. Then twelve months later, some group would come out and admit that the AfD had nothing to do with this, and it'd set off a quarter of population to side with the pro-AfD folks and trigger a negativity on Chancellor Merkel and the coalition.
It's a remarkable mess, and you can't be sure of anything.
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