"German nationalism threatens Oktoberfest"

I think it's better if I keep my mouth shut...

 

I suppose in any representative democracy where there will be crowds of people there will be politicians politicking? Shaking hands, kissing babies. Oh well!?! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Cheers!

 

They have the Mayor of Munich tap the first wooden keg on the opening Saturday. One year he did a crap job of it. It was a scandalous, almost cost him his job.

 

An interesting article, but I really have no idea how the title of it reflects the content.

 

Title = clickbait
Content, doesn't matter; they already have you counted for their advertising $$.

 

Keep in mind it is an op-ed piece.

 

Well, Bavaria, the rest of Germany and really all of Europe are tangled in a re-emergence of unoriginal and destructive political thinking. I think less about the effect on Oktoberfest, but do think more about where this trend will lead. Macron in France and Trudeau in Canada are heartening to me personally. It is happening here in America with a decent percentage of the populace in agreement..I still marvel at the disgusting display in my beloved Charlottesville. We shall see.........

 

There's always blowback from any far left or far right agenda. Here's the blowback for the far left Merkle leadership, and average people live mostly in the middle I'd suppose, and Germany's open arms to everyone has been a problem to say the least. They're tired of it and they're going to flip it the other way. It'll happen here too in reverse I suppose, the lunatic fringe has a fairly loud voice in both Germany and the US.

 

Last week there was an article about German traditionalists saying that Oktoberfest was being ruined by the busty foreigners dressing in low cut beermaid "porn" dresses - and now politicians. I'd put up with the politicians as long as the busty beermaids in porn dresses are still in attendance.

 

The CDU and Merkel are centre right, not far left.

I always thought it was the Italians or Aussies who ruined Oktoberfest, no doubt they think it's the British who do

 

Yeah, sure... but even by those standards I’m still scratching my head... or perhaps I’m still just too naive. It doesn’t help that BeerAdvocate reproduces the language due to their blanket convention of using an article title as a thread title.

 

Hmm. From what I gather the problems in Germany stem from the extremely liberal Merkle accepting in thousands of middle eastern refugees. And the resulting problems with assimilation, and rising crime. I'm confused how extremely liberal equals center right? The liberal part isn't my words they're from npr broadcasts.

 

I was visiting Carlsberg Brewery In Copenhagen in 1972 with a Canadian friend. We did the tour with the very generous beer and food offering. A few Aussies had caught up with us, and they were out of control. One guy puked all over the table and we had to haul him out. I told them he wasn't an American.

 

It also calls on ethnic Germans to have more children to prevent the eradication of the German people. "The preservation of one's own national people is a priority in politics and for every government," the party said in its manifesto for last year's federal election.

So Germany has Nazis again... We have a return of high waisted jeans.

 

Hanglow is correct. Merkel's party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has been Germany's main center-right party since its founding in 1945. Better to stick with subjects you know.

 

The SDP was the left party when I lived there, it seems some people never heard of Gerhard Schroeder.

Twenty years ago I went to Oktoberfest. The people from Munich said the worst were the Kiwis.

 

This uhhh.....this definitely ain't it

 

This is the problem when you listen to the radio with half an ear at work. But they were talking about the problems popping up in Germany right now and how's it's fracturing relations. Pro Merkle, anti Merkle, the problem with the massive in flow of middle eastern refugees. The Nazi salute making a comeback in kinda news in and by itself. I'm not a politico I just equated Germanys problems to the political polarization here, as simple liberal left vs the conservative Reps. Sounds like it's not that simple, and it's not simple here either I suppose, most of us are moderate either way, it's the extremes that make the news.

 

Spoiler alert: Nationalists and 'purity' maniacs ruin every country in which they exist. Doesn't matter if they hide behind a waving flag or a religious text, the only way to protect the things you love is to dispose of them like the trash they are. Give a hoot, don't pollute!