Not that this East German ever hid her goals, but still ….

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Merkel Blasted for Calling on Migrants to Vote Against Populist AfD Party

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has drawn criticism for calling on migrants in Germany to vote against the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

Merkel, who served as the architect of the European Migrant Crisis in 2015, when she unilaterally decided to open the EU’s borders to unprecedented waves of foreigners from the Middle East and Africa, resulting in dramatic demographic transformations in her country and across the continent, appears to have let the cat out of the bag as to her motivation for doing so.

In an interview with establishment journalist Jagoda Marinić for Hesse Broadcasting earlier this month, Merkel openly called on the migrant population of Germany — many of whom she personally allowed into the country — to vote against the political right and vote against the AfD.

“I would like people with a migration background… or with a migration history… we join forces with those who do not make common cause with the AfD.”

“I wish everyone would stand together against this party. And we do not split ourselves as a political center, I say, onto those who have a migration history and those who have none. Because then our country would become weaker against the AfD,” she continued.

“Whether a German citizen has been a German citizen for two years or for four days or the entire family for three generations, it doesn’t matter. We are the German people… We must also stick together when we have to take action against people who have completely different ideas about our future.”

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Responding to the former chancellor, [AfD leader Alice Weidel] said on Saturday: “Merkel has inflicted severe damage on Germany. In addition to the ruin of our energy infrastructure and the open borders for everyone from all over the world, she is now calling on naturalized ‘people with a migration background’ not to vote for the AfD.”

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Despite her myriad failures in office, including sparking the migrant crisis, depleting Germany’s military, eroding its industrial base with trade deals with Communist China, and rashly deciding to scrap the nation’s nuclear fleet — a move that even her former acolyte EU cheif Ursula von der Leyen admits was a mistake — Merkel was recently awarded with an “order of merit” from the European Union.

She received the award on Tuesday for her “significant contributions to European integration and European values.”

That would be the new European values.

And from January …

She said this eleven years ago in her infamous 2015 “We can do this” speech, and repeated it in 2018.

2015: Angela Merkel says “Wir schaffen das” on accepting refugees

Igniting a heated debate within her nation and across the globe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel declares “Wir schaffen das” (“We can do this”) on August 31, 2015, as she commits to accepting a mass influx of refugees amid Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since World War II.

Merkel’s controversial stance involved providing humanitarian support to approximately 1 million refugees—primarily from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq—who sought refuge in the continent.

Supporters of the open-door policy saw it as a commitment to upholding human rights, while critics argued it would cause economic strain, cultural clashes, security issues and other long-term implications. The Alternative für Deutschland, an anti-immigration party, experienced a temporary surge in the polls.

“I put it simply, Germany is a strong country … we have managed so many things—we can do this,” she said during a press conference following her visit to a refugee center outside Dresden.

The statement received widespread media attention and became a recurring theme in her speeches. “If we start having to apologize for showing a friendly face in an emergency situation, then this is not my country,” Merkel, who served as Germany’s first woman chancellor for 18 years before stepping down in 2018, said in September.

2018:

In the first major speech of her new term, German Chancellor Angela Merkel struck a conciliatory tone on immigration while offering an inclusive message on Islam. "Germany can do it," she said, and "we are all Germany."

Wednesday was the first time Angela Merkel addressed the Bundestag after the unprecedentedly long and difficult process of forming a new government. It was thus a chance for the conservative Christian Democratic (CDU) chancellor to sell her plans for her fourth term in office and third as the leader of a grand coalition with the center-left Social Democrats (SPD).

So it was significant that Merkel began her address with a discussion of her own political Achilles' heel: her welcoming stance toward the numerous migrants and refugees who arrived in Germany in 2015 and 2016. She called her famous "We can do this" statement from 2015 a "point of crystallization" in a process that "has divided and polarized our country."

The chancellor noted that Germany had mastered this "unprecedented challenge" but added that they country's acceptance of more than 1 million migrants was a "humanitarian exception" that would not be repeated.

Merkel said that Germany would do more to strengthen United Nations aid programs while at the same time pushing for beefed-up security on the European Union's external borders. [Never done — Ed]. She added that Germany would continue to take in political refugees, but that the government would also focus on deportations.

'Islam is part of Germany'