I can only imagine the pain this admission caused the German leader along with all the other leftists who pray at the I'm Ok, You're Ok Cathedral. All these disappointed Utopians can take some measure of comfort in the fact that it's causing people on the other side pain as well, mostly from the trauma of beating our heads into the wall for all these years.
After all, any fool, but precious few Europeans, can see that offering unlimited immigration to various Muslims, Africans and Eastern Europeans who know nothing of Western European cultural values let alone the tangled mess of Germanic history is a recipe for disaster. The assumption seemed to be that once offered the full bounty of the massive EU welfare state, these immigrants would become productive European citizens, if not full blown German citizens. As is the case when governments just give out enough handouts to get by without asking for anything in return, you get poverty, isolation and unrest. You effectively import a massive new lower class that can't help to become disaffected isolationists voluntarily (sometimes not voluntarily, depending on the country) becoming segregated into ghettos that embody the worst characteristics of whatever country they were trying to escape. France's troubles with the Muslim/Algerian ghetto's are evidence of that. In addition, the natural born citizenry becomes agitated because they are forced to foot the massive welfare bill for all these new arrivals who really have no business being there in the first place.
The idea that German actually tried this nonsense is the most perplexing given the fact that they tried something similar before.
Germany had a unique position to view how hard integration is. The Berlin Wall created a divergent German culture from the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 to national reunification in 1990. People who shared the same cultural background, language, societal values split into two camps and took a 37 year hiatus from each other. During this hiatus, the principle changes were economic, changing from free market economics to a centrally planned economy. There were a number of cultural changes that went with that but East Germany still was filled with Germans. It wasn't colonized by Soviets and Cubans looking for more room to stretch their legs. Reintegrating two groups of people that shared a common heritage and culture should be pretty easy after a relatively short 37 year break from each other. We know in hindsight that the reintegration of East and West Germany has been a nightmare. East Germany had so little to offer in terms of jobs or education that they essentially became a massive welfare project for West Germany. This caused the exact same hostilities between the former East and West that is occurring between immigrants and natives today. Our historical example offers little hope for the future as the former East Germany still lags behind the former West in almost all areas of development. There is still a feel of two nations. How a country that can't successfully meld with a population of people who is exactly like them except for a 37 year split thought that they could just easily fuse with people with wildly different cultures, cultivated over thousands of years of history (which often includes a healthy distrust of Europe) is beyond all rational thought.
The only reasonable explanation is how liberals (European socialists) treat government like a religion. Religions tend to get murky and convoluted when you get down to the minute details and specifics of what the message is. The same thing happens in government. These massive socialist democracies operate under the principle that once people feel the warmth of the benevolent embrace of the State, everything will be okay. They always think that whatever problems arise will be hashed out by the proper bureaucratic institution. This ignores the fact that bureaucracies don't solve problems, the get rid of them. They are designed to address the needs of the majority of people. People who fall outside that mainstream need might get serviced through some appeal process but the system would just as easily eject them from the process. Done and done.
Once people who have been told that the system works for them realize that they've been scammed, the malaise/anger/depression sets in. They get the minimum from the State that they were promised such as crappy housing, bad health care, government cheese, etc. After that; nothing. The problem just festers and spreads until the population gets large enough to create violence on a level high enough to gain notice.
Germany didn't learn the lesson from reunification that it should have. Now that their attempt to welcome in the world has also failed, will they learn that lesson? Will the rest of Europe? Probably not. European dedication to multiculturalism is a devout as any religious fanatics is to his faith. German was always more pragmatic than the rest of Europe and they got sucked in all the way to the near collapse of the welfare state. It seems the rest of Europe will just keep going until they simply have nothing left to offer. The Dutch show signs that they might be trying to extricate themselves from this nightmare, the rest of the continent rolls along.
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