[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

We were legal residents of Germany for decades, now happily returned to these sometimes divided states. Keeping in contact with many of our friends and associates across Europe, NONE of them have “signed on” to the mess going on there. The gambit — as we have seen with Clinton’s “deplorables” and Biden’s “domestic terrorists” — of the Green Left screaming “extremist” is wearing thin in Germany, as in the UK, France and Italy. It has already worn thin in Hungary, as the unelected EU has threatened “member states” when they don’t do as told by the new dictators. This will be a most interesting time in the North of Europe as winter comes to call. “Frohe Weihnachten” and “Happy Christmas” and “joyeux Noël” will have a distinctly different flavor this coming season.

[GaltAdonis]

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Happy Holidays to you!

Buy sweaters and blankets and good luck!

[Jeff Chandler]

the Green Left screaming “extremist” is wearing thin in Germany

You are basing this on your self-selected group of friends.

The German population has a long history of susceptibility to government propaganda and control. They are a nation of non-player characters.

[citizen]

...as the unelected EU has threatened “member states” when they don’t do as told by the new dictators.

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This is a point I've stressed in the past. For all intents and purposes, the EU is a dictatorship using economic force, rigged courts & propaganda in lieu of the brute force of the gun.

[Jeff Chandler]

This will be a most interesting time in the North of Europe as winter comes to call.

Germany has a large stockpile of natural gas.

[GaltAdonis]

"...We were legal residents of Germany..."

PS:

My great grandparents came to the US through Ellis Island in the 1890s.
They came from Germany.
Me, I've never been there.

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Wie geht es dir?
Schön, Ihre Bekanntschaft zu machen.

[Bonemaker]

The seemingly forever reign of Merkel didn’t help things.