David McWilliams
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first heard Jan 2026
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yeah.
So you put all that on top of...
a society which has been totally dislocated by immigration, it's been totally dislocated by reunification, it's been totally dislocated by the fact that actually when you look at the relations between East and West Germany in the last 20 years,
there has been a consistent patronizing attitude towards East Germans coming from the West Germans.
I remember years ago being in Germany at the time of reunification and the Wessies just laughed at the Aussies all the time.
The Aussies were the butt of the Wessies jokes.
And that has had a permanent impact.
So what you see in East Germany is mortality rates are higher still.
Obesity rates are higher still, levels of education are lower still, levels of income are lower still.
There is a whole gamut of sociological indicators which suggest that the division between East Germany and West Germany has not been...
in any way, on a steep sociological and maybe psychological basis, has not necessarily been healed by the fact that the West Germans wrote a large check over the course of two decades for the East Germans.
So from the East German side, there's a lot of...
And from the West German side, there's an equal amount of resentment because the West Germans believe, look, we dragged you out of communism.
We wrote the check.
We paid your bills.
And what do you do?
You vote for Die Linke, which is the left-wing party, or the AFD.
And again, these are deep questions.
deep deep divisions within the country that we know as germany we think as non-germans that germany is a reasonably homogeneous people defined by language and history when you actually scratch the surface it's not at all it's a highly divided society and it's divided across very fundamental lines geography history demography all that sort of stuff
No, they definitely would have reunified.
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