Concerned look, also in the direction of the USA!

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Not only that since the election of the 45th US President, Donald Trump, all of them - including the most die-hard Republicans - can no longer help but be amazed, for a long time we have also been looking at the developments there with great concern, which will undoubtedly have an impact on the entire world.

John Kelly shall today in the news as quoted: "I think we need to take a closer look at who we vote for." Hans Müller writes in a corresponding opinion piece in the forums of the Europastammtisch that the elections in the USA also affect Europe [Meanwhile this contribution can also be found in the weblog].

We must not forget that these worrying developments have long been part of everyday life, even in Europe. This year I had to endure a border check in Bavaria in the best GDR style, and recently a socialist was elected constitutional judge in Berlin who likes to publicly mock GDR murder victims.

It looks even worse when we look further east: you need a lot of imagination to still call Poland, Hungary and Co. democracies and if you look even further, you see totalitarian systems of the worst kind in Russia and Turkey.

In the meantime, we already seem to have become so jaded that many fellow citizens in China even see the saviors of our civilization.

But there are also astonishing discussions in our country: To whom do the generally applicable human rights apply? Use of the Bundeswehr also against its own population? When can the "state" suspend laws, regulations and rules on its own initiative and for how long?

It is becoming more and more difficult to grasp and classify the whole thing, even for citizens who try to do so! That's why it shouldn't come as a surprise when more and more citizens take to the streets together in otherwise very unusual compositions and supposedly demonstrate against things that don't even exist.

We need fundamental policy changes, not only in the US, to return our democracies to the political model for most citizens, which they are: the best guarantee for both individuals and everyone else to have the best possible to be able to live.

We cannot expect that representatives of the people are blessed with decency and a sense of responsibility, but we must be able to expect that they always have to justify all their decisions, that is the basis of every parliamentary democracy!

That's why a minister who obviously at least grossly negligently squanders hundreds of billions of taxpayers' money must be brought to justice and the whole thing must be processed down to the smallest detail and in a manner that is comprehensible to all citizens. That's why entire governments, which arbitrarily override laws - for whatever reason - must be accountable to the public at the earliest opportunity and, if necessary, also be taken to court.

Democracy is only possible if we citizens can assume that law and order apply equally to all of us. "In the past" it was common for politicians to take the consequences and resign, but there were also public prosecutors and judges who were willing to lend a helping hand if necessary.


"All power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Lord Acton, in a letter to Mandell Creighton (April 1887)

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