The numbers from the 2025 German federal election results are slicing through the still air like broken jagged glass. It is a brutal revelation of a system that is approaching its own collapse, which it itself caused. The CDU/CSU (Christian Democratic Union) is climbing to 29%, carrying its reanimated carcass across the political landscape, the SPD (Social Democratic Party) has collapsed to 16%, drowning in its own insignificance, while the Greens – those Puritans of ecology, in love with multiculturalism and decay – are hopelessly stuck at 12%. But the real terror, the subterranean roar of an awakening beast, comes from the AfD (“Alternative for Germany”), which has soared to a staggering 20 percent, its rise shaking the foundations of a West that has lost its will to prevail.
Aristotle, the ancient diagnostician of democracy, stands above this spectacle like an unflinching prophet. Two thousand years ago, he saw what was coming. In “The Politics,” he warned of the slow suicide of democracy, its decline into mobocracy, the rule of the mob, where the apathy of the plebeians and the corruption of the elite conspire to suffocate the soul of the State. And now? Germany, the heart of the European project, is in its final stages of death throes, a civilization devouring itself in the death throes of bureaucratic sterility. Aristotle’s nightmare – where democracy degenerates into oligarchic tyranny – has unfolded before our eyes, and the people, abused and betrayed, have turned to the AfD for salvation.
This is not just…. just another election. This is a revolt of the disillusioned, the exiled, those who have thrown themselves into the great sacrificial fire of the burning of European industry, European identity and European will. The AfD’s 20% is more than a number. It is a hammer blow on the temple of an aging institution that clings to power like a parasite on a dying host. Oswald Spengler, always lurking in the shadows of decline, smiles from the abyss, his vision of the “Decline of the West” – its inevitable plunge into cultural night – now fully realized in the pale, sunken eyes of the descendants of Merkel and Scholz.
The AfD, with all its momentum, must decide whether it is content to be a protest vote or whether it will now seize the mantle of true revolution. For Spengler’s twilight is here, and Aristotle’s lesson rings louder than ever: Democracies do not die in flames. They are decaying from within, rotting until they become charred ruins waiting for the axe of history to fall.
And the axe seems to be coming!
