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Anu Garg at A Word A Day posted this story of an upcoming mayoral election in the small town of Völklingen, Germany (near the French border, south of Belgium), wherein one of the candidates gave a spectacularly bad answer to a question in a recent debate.
Representative Uwe Faust of the political party Die Partei jokingly asked, “According to the building code, paragraph 126, each owner is obliged to label his property with the number given by the municipality. I find it alarming that in Völklingen many house numbers are displayed in Arabic numerals. How would you like to take action against this creeping foreigner infiltration?”
To which Otfried Best, running with the far-right NPD party, fell for the joke, replying, "You just wait until I am mayor. I will change that. Then there will be normal numbers."
Mr. Best apparently does not know what Arabic numerals are.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday September 13 2017, @07:26AM
I know this looks pure flamebait, but you have to remember that the US has a *remarkably* stupid mass population. Its ability to pick leaders is about as thoughtful as that of many of the dictatorships in Africa. They all have democracy theatre, nothing more, and the people *love* that. (The electoral college, and the party-based system, absolutely shreds any claims the US has to having a functioning democracy, there's more rounding error than signal in an election result.) Add to that a mass media that benefits from keeping its viewers ill-informed on such matters, and you can see the results with your own eyes.
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