{"id":301825,"date":"2025-01-13T08:38:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T08:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=301825"},"modified":"2025-01-15T08:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T08:51:40","slug":"angela-merkel-german-people-to-blame-for-the-problems-millions-of-refugees-are-causing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=301825","title":{"rendered":"Angela Merkel: German People To Blame For The Problems Millions Of Refugees Are Causing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angela Merkel poses for a migrant selfie.<\/p>\n

Ryan Saavedra \u2013 The Daily Wire Jan 11, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel<\/a> is facing intense backlash, including from her own political party, over a new memoir she wrote that is a nightmare for German political parties looking to stop the ascending right-wing AfD party.<\/p>\n

She wrote the book hoping to \u201csecure her crumbling legacy,\u201d The Wall Street Journal reported<\/a>, noting that \u201cthe effort is backfiring.\u201d<\/p>\n

The more than 700-page book was \u201criling up even some of her most ardent supporters\u201d because she does not believe that any of her failed policies were bad for the country \u2014 including allowing millions of Muslim refugees from the Middle East to be resettled in Germany.<\/p>\n

Powerful German state broadcaster ARD titled the headline of their report on her book: \u201cMuch pride, little self-reflection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Merkel\u2019s Christian Democratic Party blame her directly for the problems that the country is facing and they say that her memoir is making things even worse.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe publication of this unrepentant, self-righteous book at a time of economic and political turmoil like this is hurting [her political party],\u201d said former senior Merkel official Nico Lange.<\/p>\n

The report said that her approval rating has plummeted from her time as a popular elected official to someone that the German public has turned against. Her allies overseas have abandoned support for her, the report said.<\/p>\n

The most shocking part of the report focused specifically on her retelling of why she allowed millions of Muslim refugees into Germany.<\/p>\n

Merkel said that it was \u201cfully irrelevant whether they had a right to stay in Germany or not\u201d when she let them enter the country.<\/p>\n

She then blamed the German people for the problems that the refugees have caused:<\/p>\n

The consequences\u2014failed integration, ballooning welfare spending, rising crime, political polarization\u2014can be partly blamed, she writes, on Germans\u2019 lack of \u201cwill to change.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In the decade since she instituted her open-door policy, immigration has changed the face of Germany and its political dynamics. An average of around 400,000 immigrants\u2014the population of a large German city\u2014have entered each year, and Germany now spends as much on refugees as it does on defense.<\/em><\/p>\n

The report noted that the phrase that Merkel repeatedly used to justify her failed policies \u2014 that she had \u201cno alternative\u201d but to do what she did \u2014 served as the inspiration for the Alternative for Germany, or AfD.<\/p>\n

The AfD is rapidly growing and is now the country\u2019s second-largest party.<\/p>\n

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Angela Merkel’s not blaming her policies for the problems Germany now faces. Instead, in her soon to be published memoir, Berlin\u2019s former chancellor blames Germans themselves <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301825"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301828,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301825\/revisions\/301828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}