Germany to Vote Away Checks and Balances?

The new grand coalition in Berlin may streamline Germany’s government into something that looks less like democracy and more like the Germany of the 1930s.

November 21, 2005

Despite the chaos in Berlin lately, Germany’s parliament has voted, however begrudgingly, in favor of a grand coalition between the Social Democrats and Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats.

Merkel will almost certainly take the helm of the new government as Germany’s first female chancellor. Though she faces an uphill battle, crippling gridlock when it comes to much-needed economic reforms, and even possibly an abbreviated term, there is something vital her coalition might be able to accomplish.

“[O]ne of the trickier planks of the prospective government’s platform,” says Stratfor, is “a constitutional amendment on reforming federal power balances” (November 10). Merkel’s coalition just might have the votes to pull this off.

Interestingly, the laws these politicians would be rewriting didn’t originate with Germans. They were imposed upon them by the Allies after Germany’s defeat in World War ii. The thorny system of checks and balances that these laws inserted into Germany’s government structure has effectively hamstrung that nation from attaining anything close to its former position of power. The Allies did this deliberately—“as a means of hobbling the reemergence of a dynamic, proactive German power” (ibid.).

Stratfor notes, “For better or worse, some of those checks are about to be voted away. And although the Bundeswehr was not looking for a flat place to march across the last time we checked, Germany’s neighbors have got to be developing a bit of a nervous twitch as their long-occupied-and-divided neighbor begins thinking for itself again” (ibid.).

Bible prophecy points to a time soon approaching when Germany will, in fact, think for itself again—when it assuredly will not be hindered by Western intentions or gridlock in government. It points to a time when a strongman will once again take the helm of the government.

Though Merkel is likely not the one to fit this profile, we cannot help but wonder if she will play a part in tearing down constitutional restraints for this end-time, all-European Hitler soon to appear. Once that man takes charge, he will have little standing in his way.

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