We know all about Trump, migration, the EU, Israel and all those international issues. But what crazy stupid thing is unique to the nutjobs in your country?
Germany: As you might have heard, we lost WW2 and were under allied occupation for a while with the country being split in two and being renamed. The old “Deutsches Reich” is no more. As you also might have heard, our Kaiser stepped down in 1918. Except: Some people who are great at brain stuff decided that all of that was not done in a completly legal way and that the german empire is still around. And since there is currently no Kaiser around, the position is vacant and that is a great opportunity to crown yourself! Therefore we have several kings and kaisers around and also some people that are claiming to be the successor of the allied army.
All the successors are frauds! If you read the Concordat of Worms from 1122, it says that the holy roman empire must be ruled together by the Pope and the Kaiser, and not the Kaiser alone!
Germany: The extrem right thinking that we are self flagellating, because we have memorials about the atrocities commited under the Nazi regime. What they don’t get: Normal people don’t identify with the Nazis, so when you talk about self flagellation it is very telling about your identity.
Woah, I’ve never seen it that way. Thanks for the new perspective.
In Spain we have a problem with our flag.
The current one was adopted at the beginning of the 19th century and during that time it was more or less unifying (like all of them I suppose) but in the second republic (in the 1930s) the bottom stripe was changed to purple. After that, the fascist dictatorship restored the current one, and when democracy arrived in the 70s, only the coat of arms was changed.
Since then, a significant portion of the population associates it with fascism, the far right, and dictatorship; another portion says it should only be seen as a representation of the people; and a third portion couldn’t care less.
Something similar happens with the national anthem.
Brexit I guess. I haven’t lived in the UK for 30 years so I try and get over it, but…
The current government’s moving of Franco’s remains a while ago didn’t sit quite right with the right (they aren’t fascist, they just want to give our former fascist dictator “the respect he deserves.” Apparently he deserves a nonzero amount)