Sometimes, It's Best To Just Not Remember Things

In the last day or two.....Martin Bewarder wrote up a fine article for Welt, and you can find the piece over at N24.de. 

There is this mystery left over from 2016....how the big-door situation in 2014/2015 with roughly 1.45-million refugees and migrants entering the country.  There were various decisions made, and if you went out today to find a record, or a lessons-learned package....nothing exists.

Bewarder writes a fine piece to to question the complex nature of this period, and why no one within the government wants to remember it.  Even if you go and ask the public TV news media (ZDF and ARD) about it.....there's a big empty hole there and people mostly grinning because they can't seem to remember anything.

So why the lacking 'story'?  I suspect there are three big problems laying there:

1.  You really don't want to admit that no one was really in charge, and the whole period of the 'open-door'....was just a lab experiment allowed to roam at will.

2.  No one wants to admit that all of this screw-up  (with good intentions) business....allowed the AfD Party to capture votes from various parties, and be a national trend.  You don't want to say that you helped a right-wing extreme party go from nothing, to where they are today.

3.  Finally, after a big chaos or mess, you tend to have a lesson-learned phase.  In this case, without clear notes or records....there is no lessons-learned phase.  Maybe it's intentional....maybe it's just an accident.  But it does seem odd over all this missing data and listed problems.

Bewarder's article will probably capture some attention, but I doubt if it really matters.  Chancellor Merkel is gone in eighteen months, and a whole new team arrives to revise the direction.  Maybe it's best to just not remember anything from 2014 and 2015.