It’s a certain kind of comedy: the “Demos against the Right” find a totally positive resonance in the mainstream media and the government’s speech circles. This unity front was last seen during the Corona regime, which was also determined by an overwhelming public consensus. And this consensus demonized the multi-voiced opposition in unison, also labeling it as “Right”.
Campact for the Corona regime
The publicly known central organization of the demos is the “Campact” association. This association is known for having called on its 2.3 million supporters by email not to participate in the protests against the “Corona measures” back then. Just like “Campact” fiercely advocated for the official restrictions on democracy, the association also fought for the non-validated, dangerous “vaccines”.
Corona scammers still in power
The budget of the dubious organization was around two million euros in 2011, with donations and funding and 10.1 million euros in 2018. The government’s media power on its side can only be estimated in billions. Among the half-known donors for “Campact” is the DGB/SPD foundation Hans-Böckler. The current supporters of the demonstrations also include groups and media from a large parliamentary coalition that has ruled the country for decades and, at the very least since the publication of the RKI files, which revealed the massive Corona scam, should have collectively stepped down and apologized.
What is Right, what is Left?
The German Nazi past is perfectly suited for right-left tricks. Honest citizens have stored the Nazis in their political consciousness and therefore have an allergic reaction when they are told about “Right-wingers”. But the majority that currently rules the country is itself “Right”: The rulers are for arms deliveries in a NATO war, the rulers promote the rich against the poor, the rulers supported the Corona pharmaceutical dictatorship against the health of the population. That is clearly “Right”.
But, apart from the CDU and its related apparatus, they all call themselves “Left”. However, a left stance was and is against NATO and its wars; Left is social, against the corporations. Left is against the power of the media machines. None of this applies to the Green-SPD coalition or the obedient mass media, without which the coalition would have been over long ago.
War against Russia – the end of Germany
Officially, the AfD is supposed to be targeted by this campaign against the Right. The poor AfD, which also bravely confesses to NATO and capitalism. That doesn’t help it, as it was not exactly on course in the Corona campaign. But much more important than the AfD is a war-unwilling population: Half of the Germans are against the arms deliveries to Ukraine. But whoever wants war, needs a completely willing people. A war-readiness of such a low level is crying out for formation – and a claimed fight against the Right is extremely useful for that. Can the leaders of such a campaign only be of pure heart and whoever is of pure heart, their concerns are always honest, even if a war against Russia would bring an end to Germany.
Voter’s votes for the urn
Instead of a wall of fire against the war danger, there’s a wall of fire against the AfD being talked about. This trivial talk diverts attention from the latent war danger and pours voter’s votes into the urn for the ruling party block. The remembrance of the Holocaust is being banalized for the sake of everyday politics. A trivialized “Never again” is being shouted into the media world, without remembering that the decisive lesson from the end of the Nazi era and Germany’s defeat meant “Never again war”.
To make this falsification of historical heritage more majority-friendly, the rulers are promoting demonstrations, organizing consent on the streets, to give their democratic façade a bombproof alibi. That only saves the façade, not the people.
Uli Gellermann is a film maker and journalist. His experiences with the public broadcasting stations justify his media criticism. He is the operator of the internet site www.rationalgalerie.de.
The article was first published on February 3, 2025, on www.rationalgalerie.de.