Sarrazin "Swamped with Support"

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Sarrazin "Swamped with Support"

Monday, September 6th, 2010 | blogging

The WSJ reports German Politics Hit by Blowback Over Sarrazin.

The German government’s effort to oust a senior Bundesbank official for publishing controversial racial theories isn’t going at all well.

Yay!

A day after the German central bank asked President Christian Wulff to dismiss the official for racially charged remarks, it was becoming evident that a sizable slice of the electorate share Sarrazin’s concerns over immigration and ethnic integration and were protesting preparations to expell the 65-year-old from the central bank. Informal TV polls suggest that nine in 10 call-ins say Sarrazin might have a point or two.

Brand new in office, Mr. Wulff’s first reaction was to run for cover and ask the government to confer on the case before he makes a decision that only he has to make. The government itself fears that the Sarrazin case is splitting society on a thorny issue that German mainstream politics has tried to avoid confronting head on. Now there’s no choice.

The starkest evidence was the letter that the Social Democratic Party sent to members defending a decision to expell the 65-year-old Sarrazin from their party. It was in response to a groundswell of support for the author of a book that warned that high fertility rates among Muslims in Germany will erode the country’s economic potential and collective intelligence.

Copies of the SPD letter excerpted in the German media acknowledged that the party’s headquarters was being swamped with calls and emails supporting Sarrazin and at least some of his views on immigration.

Sarrazin, for better or worse, has outed a festering issue that Germany’s political class will have to take on before it’s hijacked by fringe groups. For the moment, Mr. Wulff is caught in a Ceausescu moment as he stands before the country and sees nobody waving back.

In another report, Chancellor Merkel finally deigned to give a reason why Sarrazin’s remarks were so outrageous.

“I can’t accept these comments,” Ms. Merkel said Friday. “They have an exclusionary effect.”

Profound, Chancellor. What you mean by “exclusionary” is that Sarrazin’s remarks have the effect of waking people up to the global elite′s project of abolishing the West by importing alien, hostile, low IQ immigrants.

So far, there’s no sign of Sarrazin backing down, and with the groundswell of support, maybe he won’t.

Even a dyed-in-the-wool pessimist like myself can see some grounds for optimism in Sarrazin.