### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 25th February 2025 ###
Dear Editor,
As the dust settles on the German election, I am reflecting on how politically homeless I feel. As it is, there are three things that I wish for: More peace (or at least diplomatic contact), a little less EU and, less Globalisation*.
My motives for wanting these things are humanitarian, ecological, anti-exploitation and, above all, to maintain the sanity of our society. Especially in the face of rapacious, online, offshore corporations which are allowed free-rein by Brussels.
Only two parties offered the things I desire: The AfD and the “Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance”, BSW. All the others seemed to be “cooking the same soup” with no fundamental difference. Only AfD and BSW are thinking “out of the box”. The others, I feel, live in their respective “party bubbles”, disconnected from some of the very ugly realities which, in many cases, they have helped to create.
I was distraught when it turned out that BSW fell just 0.03% short of the “5% hurdle” and is therefore excluded from the Bundestag. I cannot bring myself to vote AfD, so this makes me completely politically homeless. And means that an import voice, the free-spirit of Sahra Wagenknecht, is excluded from parliament.
I am very worried for our future.
Yours,
Alan Mitcham
PS: * Regarding migration, I feel that we are having completely the wrong discussion here: The West mostly seems to create misery, exploitation and war in the developing world (e.g. in The Congo for copper and coltan, sweatshops in Bangladesh, fishing-stocks stolen from the coastline of Africa and invading Afghanistan on a very dubious pretext) so I think we need to fix all that … rather than put up fences (which Ursula von der Leyen is doing with billions of Euros paid to north African dictators). Sahra Wagenknecht suggested sorting out the causes of migration but was slammed by her then party, Die Linke … and by pretty much everyone else.
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