What a Spectacle: The CDU Submits a Bill, Gets a Majority with FDP and AfD and Suddenly a Big Spectacle Ensues, All About the “Berlin Wall” and So On – Up to Murder Threats and a Razing of the CDU Headquarters. Half the Republic Stands with Foamy Mouth and the Press Comments Overflow with Warnings, How Democracy is Now Endangered Because the CDU Allowed Its Bill to be Approved.
And the whole thing is as deceitful as it can be. It starts with the fact that nothing was decided on Wednesday at all. Or rather, what was decided on is as politically effective as an instruction to the Federal President to dig his nose every Thursday at 11 am. That is, it’s just an instruction and the binding effect is zero.
The CDU puts on a big show to gather votes and can forget the whole thing after the election. After all, there’s EU law and Friedrich Merz can then bend over with a pained expression. And besides, the patron of the association, after whom the party headquarters is named, Konrad Adenauer, is known for the sentence: “What does my yesterday’s chatter matter to me?”
Exactly the Adenauer who, as Federal Chancellor, ensured that all the old Nazis got back into office. What the SPD probably won’t know today is that SPD General Secretary Matthias Miersch said: “You’re taking the risk of making a pact with right-wing extremists for the first time since 1949, with the votes of the AfD.”
Very witty. Has the SPD also, in the Grand Coalition, passed the emergency laws? A longer list of names won’t be inserted here, it’s just too long.
However, the “Berlin Wall” number is even more hollow. After all, there was the vote on the Bundestag’s anti-Semitism resolution on November 7 last year. The AfD also voted in favor and nobody, not a single person, spoke of a “Berlin Wall” and “unity of democrats” then. This thing not only contains a definition of anti-Semitism that forbids any criticism of Israel, but also has real practical effects, including on the allocation of state funding. Universities, for example, were told to suppress protests with all means at their disposal. A really unpleasant piece and only the Left and the BSW voted against it.
And now, from the ranks of SPD and Greens, it’s being said that a bill that the AfD might agree to should not even be submitted, as if it were unbecoming of a democrat. November 7 seems to have been erased from the collective memory.
However, the public in the country is being told that something really happened on Wednesday; after all, the CDU can use it to take a few gullible voters away from the AfD and SPD and Greens can mobilize their own voter potential, which now thinks it’s defending democracy against Nazis.
And that’s the point at which it becomes clear who really despises democracy: all those who put on this kind of spectacle. Those who don’t find it embarrassing to simulate activity in both directions, with the unmistakable intention of putting all the real problems back in the bottom drawer after the elections – where they always lie.
Because the one, central expectation that everyone should have of politicians and that every politician should fulfill, namely to perceive problems and seek solutions, is not being fulfilled, but is being replaced again with an inscenation. It’s not the speeches that harm democracy and not “hate and incitement” that is being so glibly pointed out to again chase after pensioners because of Facebook pictures. It’s the lived disrespect for citizens and their concerns that harms democracy.
The place in Germany where democracy is least respected is: the Bundestag.