Die Mitte (the middle) is where it’s at, folks. Well it’s certainly where I’m at. And you can’t have visions from here in the middle. I mean, I may not always know what I stand for but I always know where I’m standing..
And that’s what Germans want, the middle. The middle of the middle, even. The middler the better. No meddling with the middle. We’re right in the middle of an election campaign, after all. Did you know that Mittelmaß (literally “the middle measure”) means mediocrity in German?
Sure, there was a little Abweichung (deviation) from the middle with that batshit crazy refugee number of mine. Quite a big deviation, actually. But I apologized. Sort of. And now I’m back home, smack dab in the middle of where you want me to be. Just call me. Mutti. Mutti in the middle.
See you on Sunday!
Perhaps the closest she came to setting out a vision was a year ago, as she presented this year’s budget in parliament. Germany, she said, has seen a lot of change since World War II, and “change isn’t a bad thing.” But she also vowed to defend the status quo in the broadest sense of the term: “Germany will remain Germany, with all that we love and hold dear about it.”
“Whoever has visions should go see a doctor.”
– Helmut Schmidt
“Germany will remain Germany,(for awhile longer) with all that we love and hold dear about it ( burning before our eyes).”
So no electoral surprise possible?
It’s really open, actually. There are a whole lot of undecided voters. I think the AfD will do better than expected and everything on the left side is going to get slapped. I hope the FDP does well – the ONLY party in Germany that openly advocates things like tax cuts. See what happens.
Am Anfang war die Mittellinie, but now the left is screwed. A fool is a tax cut believer, voting for a fata morgana.