We lead very sheltered lives here in The Land of the Round Doorknobs.
Most of us can't name five world leaders aside from our own President, and many of us have trouble naming our Congressional representatives, Senators, and in some instances Governor (met just such a moron yesterday).
Many Americans don't know the difference between North and South Korea, and we currently have a Chief Executive Officer in the White House who apparently doesn't know the difference between South Africa and South America.
I lived, loved, and worked in (West) Germany for fifteen years and remain very interested in all aspects of German life, sport, culture, and politics. In West Germany, the political parties were SPD, CDU, CSU, FDP, and the Greens.
With the fall of the wall in November 1989 and the subsequent reunification of East and West Germany, additional political parties sprang up to include a rebranded Socialist Unity Party of Germany as the PDS and eventually as 'The Left.'
Germany, in my experience, is to Europe what the United States was to the world in terms of welcoming immigrants (that changed and not for the better when the USA elected a thirty-four-times convicted felon as President, but we can agree to disagree on that, I guess.).
The USA has MAGAts, and the Germans have the Alternative for Germany, or Nazis (because that is what they are), and now, the white supremacists in charge of the USA would like to import a genuine German Nazi, fearing we don't have enough home-grown ones.
Naomi Seibt is exactly what we don't need, now or ever, in the United States.
-bill kenny
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