24.1.02024

Featured photo: Rally | © Bettina Kümmerle

New Hampshire 

The US made for a short night yesterday as I couldn't help but follow the New Hampshire primaries. At around 3 a.m. it was clear that... Donald Trump There he got 54,5% and his last competitor Nikki Haley came to at least 43,2%. I was actually a little rooting for Haley because everything was better than Donald Trump at a hunt.

The New York Times states soberingly: “The former president's victories in Iowa last week and in New Hampshire on Tuesday leave his main Republican rival, Nikki Haley", with an uphill battle." In my opinion, she got out of the starting blocks far too late and crawled up Trump's ass for far too long. By the way, it was there again recently Ron De Santis returned. Now I'm curious to see what Hans Müller will write about it later.

In any case, I hope that we citizens in Germany didn't get out of the starting blocks too late and that we can stop the upheaval that has already begun, at least in the opinion of the right. You cannot rely on professional politics! If democracy wins, they will simply put themselves on the winner's podium. And in the event of defeat, they line up for the butt-shattering - they'll probably have the necessary speeches written for this.

By the way, my readers can read the New York Times article mentioned above read here for free.

Public legal radio

I've been writing for a while now about the ÖRR. Even though I would still like to see more transparency there and fewer dime novels and the like, the ÖRR is doing exactly what it is supposed to do! Otherwise the AfD and other anti-democratic movements wouldn't necessarily want to get rid of him.

Addendum

As soon as I say something positive about the ÖRR, my attention is drawn to an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in which: Jochen Zenthöfer (24.1.2024, 7.01 clock) reported new major errors in a Terra-X series. Let's assume that the ÖRR is also affected by the shortage of skilled workers despite the best pay. If the ÖRR were more transparent (hic!), one could at least rule out the possibility that it would become a catch-all for family members of professional politics who were difficult to place. The FAZ could do some background research into where the idiots in the ÖRR come from?

rally

Yesterday's rally on the market square was more than pleasing. Far more citizens came than I could have ever imagined. I saw more than 10% of the members of the EUROPA-UNION Heilbronn in person. I was even able to personally greet 15% of the Free Voters. With short-term planning and known bad weather, these are certainly extremely positive percentages, especially since the members of the EUROPA-UNION come from the entire city and district. I was very pleased that Thomas Michl came from Weinsberg with his eldest son.

The organizers already spoke of a total of around 15 participants at the rally, which is certainly a record for Heilbronn - a very positive record. The mood was good and the rally was very peaceful. Even the onset of rain didn't stop the participants from continuing to show their colors.

Most of the speakers of the evening were off-putting. On the one hand, you have to ask yourself why some people have to read their democratic attitudes off the page and what they then understand remains more than banal. The speaker from the social association VdK Germany, who conveyed the content, was pleasing.

What was less pleasing was that many speakers just wanted to hear themselves read from the page in public and showed no compassion for the rally participants. And so these readers ultimately forced me to leave the rally early, but only after the editor-in-chief of the Heilbronner Stimme.

My better half and I sat down in a restaurant in Heilbronn and were happy that more and more club members were joining us. There we reviewed the rally again. In our eyes, a very successful rally came to a happy end.

Thanks

In 1945 the National Socialists didn't just disappear; everyone knew that then and everyone knows that now! The countless Nazis had to be integrated into the new Federal Republic, and some of them were even needed. Too few have been held accountable for their crimes. The excuse was the reconstruction of our country.

And so it was the laudable task of the people's parties to also take in Nazis and simply absorb them into their own ranks. Most people probably assumed that Nazis who wanted to get involved in popular parties could actually be integrated. And to be completely on the safe side, the parties were given their own educational institutions in order to retrain former Nazis in addition to further political education for the population. In this regard, the party foundations must be viewed like public broadcasting, which (educational mandate) is also intended, among other things, to make us citizens better democrats.

They also fulfilled this laudable task of the people's parties to "suck around" the Nazis, but unfortunately not as successfully as intended. Leading party cadres saw it as necessary to continue to “entertain” their fringe group rather than “retrain” them, probably because the former was easier and much more convenient. One could use the excuse that the old Nazis are biodegrading and cannot cause any further damage under the control of a people's party.

Another excuse is that in 1990, as the responsible people's parties, they had to absorb a whole new wave of anti-democrats, old Nazis and Stalinists. Because even these bad guys neither disappeared with the change nor mutated into Democrats overnight.

We are now in 2024 and unfortunately we have to realize that the popular parties have obviously not succeeded in integrating Nazis or even converting them into democrats. It is also to be feared that these have not been “biodegraded” over the decades, but rather seem to be multiplying briskly under the protection of a popular party.

If you look at the whole thing over the decades, the Union parties are now even regularly giving birth to new Nazi parties. I still remember the Republicans (1983), the AfD has been around since 2013 and in 2024 the Values ​​Union will probably become independent.

But the SPD is now also managing to follow the example of the Left (2007).

And so one must attest to our popular parties that what is well-intentioned is not always well-done. But the two larger popular parties were at least able to protect us citizens from worse things for a few decades!

As expected, the smallest people's party was the first to fail; Franz Josef Strauss was ultimately too old to keep “his” party on track and his successors were clearly assimilated by their own fringe group, contrary to their original intention. Yesterday I was able to B. hear that the CSU now even wants to impose AfD constitutional judges in Germany.

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