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construction sites
A slightly longer meeting yesterday and a few more chats, which I now conduct via Delta Chat and Threema if GoTo is not used, have shown that I currently have more open construction sites in the company than I would have liked.
And completely me again, I immediately opened a new construction site; this has the potential to become a "major construction site" and will certainly ensure that I have a major European event simmering after the Hertenstein talks. The charm of this is that I am once again reminded that events like this are hardly or not possible to organize in Heilbronn.
And currently these warnings seem to be right, because the registrations for the 7th Hertenstein Talks are coming in very slowly. The rest is well organized and the participants can expect very interesting, informative and exciting discussions in a very pleasant environment.
It would be very nice if other fellow citizens accepted this offer of talks, because there you will find plenty of relaxed opportunities to close one or the other construction site - including me. And this could be a real win-win situation for both sides.
firewall
Even if the CDU's firewall to the AfD may still be standing, at least in the region, the CDU MP is hurrying Christian von Stetten immediately set the whole thing straight again: "But I'm not one of those district councilors who reject a good suggestion from the AfD parliamentary group in the district council just because it comes from the AfD." (Heilbronner Voice, July 25.7.2023, 1: XNUMX).
The honorary Heilbronn CDU faction leader Thomas Randecker on the other hand, currently excludes cooperation with the AfD “both morally and in terms of content” and also notes that the AfD faction in the Heilbronn municipal council is a “purely destructive municipal council faction” that has so far made “absolutely no useful applications”.
So we can only hope that the more democratic forces in the CDU will continue to have the upper hand and will continue to speak out, at least in the majority, against cooperation with anti-democratic forces — whether left or right.
Unfortunately, the less critical observer is left with the fact that the CDU will not work together with the AfD at all. And even the big CDU chairman in Berlin is not quite so sure about working with the AfD, because for him it is more dependent on the mood and the weather. It remains to be seen whether we will continue to win elections in the future with this kind of “indecisiveness”.
contemporaries
A Heilbronn politician has been rumored for a long time that politicians look for their opponents in other parties but always find their enemies in their own party. This corresponds quite well with my experiences from the 1970s and 1980s. And so last year, when I became chairman of the Free Voters, I resolved to establish different habits, at least in my area of responsibility.
As a purely volunteer, it makes no sense at all if you have to deal with such useless quarrels even in your free time. And so I'm very happy that my fellow campaigners see it very similarly. Maybe that's why I was able to take part in an event yesterday that was only intended for parties and voter associations in the city of Heilbronn — Eugene Gall and Herbert Burkhardt just took me with them. And since we were the first on site, we were able to follow the other participating parties quite well.
I was very happy that dr Anna Christ-Friedrich, Tanja Sagasser-Beil and Herbert Tabler took the time to say hello in person. I was a bit surprised that even someone with whom I shared the pew decades ago had to contort themselves today so as not to have to say “Grüß Gott”.
And as soon as it's officially allowed to cover last night's performance, I will be very happy to do this, because the presentation was quite decent and what was presented was certainly an asset for our city.
If you want to contain the AfD, you simply have to do politics in the interests of the citizens. However, because the CDU also only represents “green-light” positions, it falls out as the opposition.
Not to mention the FDP - which has become a total failure at the latest with the traffic light in terms of "civil freedom".
So what is the alternative (in the sense of the word?) for the citizen? Who defends civil liberties against the EU bureaucrats and corrupt politicians in the Berlin bubble?
Without wanting to defend the CDU, one can currently state that it is in a kind of discovery phase. And there it is rumbling violently. I am convinced that responsible Union politicians have long since recognized that the CDU must once again engage in responsible politics, and perhaps beyond its long-standing mainstream. Merely shooting across, as other opposition parties do, does not help anyone. And certainly not if you question democracy itself!
However, I see the core problem of the Union in the fact that it must finally part with those politicians who have lied and deceived us citizens for years. I assume that this necessary renewal is essential if the CDU wants to become a reasonable and credible opposition and also wants to position itself as the future governing party.
People have always scolded the EU and I don't know any different. It's also usually because it's much easier to blame others than to sweep your own house. I could go on and on here for pages, but that would go far beyond my answer to your objection.