Timing is everything. Today is of course the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall, not that anybody actually feels like celebrating or anything.
So what does Left party leader Gesine Lötzsch do? What she always does. When not lecturing about “Paths to Communism” in the Junge Welt (communist, sorry marxist) newspaper, she likes to make other provocative pronouncements to keep her constituents happy. The most recent zinger: The building of the Berlin Wall was a logical consequence of World War II. In other words, it wasn’t us communists who did it (you know, good old German denial), it was those other guys. Not that she is a communist or anything, of course. She isn’t and never was and never will be and will tell you this time and time again until she is red, I mean blue in the face.
Times sure have changed in fifty years, haven’t they? Not for everybody, though. I’m sure there are still some folks out there who still believe the world is flat, too. Whatever. It’s amazing really, and funny, sort of, and I guess everyone has gotten pretty used to her comments by now so let the festivities begin or something.
Speaking of comments, the best comment I read about her was from the guy who said that when you listen to Frau Lötzsch you get the sneaking suspicion that she is that last government spokesman of the GDR.
“Frau Lötzsch wirkt wie die letzte Regierungssprecherin der DDR.”
PS: Just in case anybody was wondering, the Left party governs as part of the city government right here in Berlin this very day.
Observing Hermann 
The summer hole of German politics is never a different animal.
When a mouse roars it usually spits out bile.
Free ticket to Potsdamer Platz for her to take part in the “Slutwalk” today.
Gesine Lötzsch gets sentimental about a police state. She’s a moral midget.
Of course as a young party official “with a lot of potential” she got to live better than everyone else, which is to say, only slightly better than the unwashed AND oppressed. I’m not sure what she thinks she lost.