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reading godfather
Starting tomorrow it will be time again and I will read my old one, but now every Tuesday Elementary School in front. What is also new is that teachers and students after a few years in containers, are allowed to be back in their old school building. I am already curious to see how the renovated school building has developed? I still hope that elementary school has finally arrived in the digital age, which would be a good start for everyone after a good 30 years of the internet.
For reading aloud, I still use the good old books, quite traditionally. But if you can now also project the books onto the digital blackboard, I could imagine using e-books as well.
regional elections
The result of yesterday's regional elections in France can best be explained with a quip from Coluche.
"Si voter changeait quelque chose, il ya longtemps que ça serait interdit."
Coluche
This feeling of not being able to change anything through elections meant that at least 66% of French voters stayed away from this regional election yesterday; a development that can also be observed in other democratic countries. Without a doubt, it also reflects those fellow citizens who find it too much trouble even to vote, or who don't care as long as they can meet their basic needs.
But now pulling out the club again and bashing non-voters is the wrong reaction! We have to recognize that the voter also wants to see the real outcome of their election, and not be frustrated by the fact that no matter how they vote, absolutely nothing changes.
Let's look at our last federal election in 2017 — the voters wanted a new government and got the GroKo again. And the result of the upcoming federal election can already be foreseen: we will get a new but a GroKo (black-green). The generally recognized incompetent ministers will also remain in office and only partially replaced by new ministers whose necessary competence is not yet apparent.
And even if you take the trouble to read the relevant electoral programs, you will not be able to see any major changes - although electoral programs of known dimensions also no longer play a role after the election; at best, these will be replaced by coalition agreements, to which no one feels bound.
Unfortunately, all the suggestions and advice to all those entitled to vote to go and vote again and again, but in case of doubt to invalidate one's own vote and thus send a clear signal, were also not crowned with success. Our professional politicians and their parties will continue to blame those who don't go to the polls or even vote for anti-democrats.
It would be better to allow a minority government after the Bundestag elections and to carry out the necessary changes and laws in fierce political battles in the Bundestag. In any case, this would reawaken the interest of the electorate, polarize citizens and the parties again and hopefully ensure in the next elections that there is a governable party or coalition that has to deal with a competent and combative opposition.
This would give voters real democratic alternatives and the good feeling of being able to change something through elections.
site of the day
Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival [website defunct]
The Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival has been celebrated in Ottawa since 1996 as a holistic cultural event. A festival of diversity similar to ours Meeting point Europe in Heilbronn — due to the venue, a little bigger and more extensive than here. The reason for this festival is the summer solstice.
