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Contribution photo: Screenshot of the state government's website for “500 Years of the Peasants' War” | © The Land

Home movie

Detlef Stern has me in his recent blog post drew attention to a “local film” made by the freelance artist and illustrator Natalis Lorenz was created. He presents his animation project “Tales of the Undead Beats” in a YouTube video. You can also find his channel there, which shows all seasons of this slightly different local film from 2015.

And I now also know why there was no more money for the European meeting point - you also have to set priorities in the city administration.

Interestingly, we also showed one during the last local council election campaign Local film about our city. However, this was more suitable for the slightly older residents of Heilbronn.

Peasants' War

Baden-Württemberg honors the Peasants' War of 1524 and 1525 with a large national exhibition. In addition to the cultural-historical exhibition in Bad Schussenried, an interactive exhibition and a “children's hands-on exhibition” are planned in Stuttgart. I don't hope that the so-called children's participation exhibition will have the motto “We are playing war”.

Our state government is now glorifying the peasant war as an attempt to establish democracy and co-determination and we can probably be happy that the peasant leaders at the time are not also held responsible for gender, women's rights and the LGBT movement.

Winfried Kretschmann is quoted as follows: “We can only learn for our present and the future if we look at the past and make it visible and tangible. A look at the year 1524/25 therefore also opens up perspectives in the present.” — some farmers are now perhaps even taking it too literally.

In any case, this exhibition will cost us taxpayers at least 7 million euros and shows that we in Baden-Württemberg still have more tax money at our disposal than our politicians can throw away. And as long as the Union co-governs, nothing is likely to change, at least in terms of throwing money out the window.

And if the Union doesn't co-govern and Kohl's coffers empty faster than the MPs feared, they will push back ever more vehemently to the feeding troughs. So it's a good thing that the respective successor government has to try, out of necessity alone, to actually manage things like a Swabian housewife and not just with words.

So the opposition leaders of the Union can be very happy that there are people among them, such as: b. Joachim Rukwied, also peasant leaders and subsidy kings. But even more about the fact that our farmers can still be exploited very easily and very well for all sorts of purposes, as was the case 500 years ago.

And if Friedrich Merz, Markus Söder and whose party colleagues do not get back to their old honeypots very quickly, then there will not only be a “hot autumn”, but a hot year as a whole. The additional income of Union MPs continues to decline and many ex-ministers are already having to sell their first houses and apartments - which is probably much worse than the taxation on agricultural diesel.

Apparently, the politicians in question do not take into account that Alice Weidel, Sarah Wagenknecht and Bernd Höcke There are more candidates in the starting blocks who are more likely to benefit from uprisings than those who ruined the farmers' soup in the first place.

And so the question remains, will our farmers continue to allow themselves to be burned for the interests of others? In this regard, I hope that the major state exhibition will also address the question of who actually benefited from the Peasants' War back then? — I'm afraid it wasn't the farmers. And perhaps, to paraphrase Kretschmann, we could learn something from this for the year 2024 - I don't even dare to talk about the future.

Compare

Today I was slowed down a bit on my journey with the meseno bus and since the goods I collected were a bit small, a few people will probably have to tighten their belts a little this week.

As I shuffled along behind one or two tractors, the first thing that occurred to me was how much of the 300 euro monster that was chugging along in front of me I actually paid for with my tax money. Then I got a little distracted because I was driving past a gallows where someone had theatrically hung a traffic light - he made a great effort to do so, because it's still lit. As I drove past a few nice signs asking for fair prices, I couldn't help but think of an age-old French joke.

A secretary comes to her boss angrily and demands performance-based pay.

He then replies that he can't let her starve.

Anon

In any case, I then asked myself whether our farmers even know that they are victims of a decades-long completely misguided policy that has replaced the market with a planned economy and subsidies that only serve the benefit of large farmers and agricultural corporations. Do the farmers also know that they have only ever been kept quiet with agricultural diesel subsidies and other small cash gifts?

They should have known and were complicit in accepting these gifts. And if the mountains of butter continued to grow in our country and not the mountains of debt, then the current federal government would not have changed anything about this economic and social fraud and our farmers would continue to protect and caress their tractors in their garages.

But now to the announced comparison between protesting farmers and “climate gluers”. Both take their protest to the streets and try to take their fellow citizens hostage. Both groups endanger road traffic and also ensure that some sick or injured citizens reach hospitals far too late. The farmers are more organized and also receive support from enemies of democracy and an opposition that is pushing towards the feeding troughs. The “climate gluers” are fighting for a greater good, with the farmers alone complaining about the loss of subsidies.

Our right to demonstrate is right and important! However, we should ask ourselves whether we can only exercise this right if we thereby cause the greatest possible harm to our fellow citizens and not to the actual recipients?

Should Putin's disciples from the railway union also ask themselves this question? Because in addition to the damage to all of us, our democracy is also being increasingly dismantled - and that may be the real goal of far too many of these demonstrators; contrary to other statements and announcements.

Which doesn't mean that I'm against the protesters' demands. We urgently need increased protection of the environment, we finally need sustainable and functional agriculture and we also need reliable local and long-distance public transport.

The question remains whether this will be achieved by the current demonstrations and blockades? I'm afraid not!

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