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The last few days have left me a bit confused; Am I suddenly in the wrong film? Demonstrators are currently taking to the streets in Berlin because they cannot accept that the judiciary and police are apparently only blind in their right eyes. The lack of education in the state apparatus has so far ensured that criminals are only prosecuted or prosecuted if they have personally stepped on the toes of a judge, public prosecutor or police officer - until then they were comfortably slashing one quarter or another or swaying together at the city's hottest festivals. And the city administration has so far left five alone and clearly did not even require an apartment registration or even the obligatory purchase of garbage stamps. And as soon as at least one terrorist has been caught, half of the enemies of democracy take to the streets, to express solidarity with murderers.
A speaker at the weekend asked another question that was actually completely unnecessary but all the more urgent for us: how can a welfare state be expanded to such an extent that it can no longer be financed even in good economic times? I have often offered possible answers here, including the fact that our republic consists mainly of bought democrats who will only hold on to our democracy as long as the sausages fly into their mouths on their own. What is confirmed every time you even try to cut at least a little the most pointless subsidies - then even our farmers riot again.
The really exciting thing about it is that the respective decision-makers, whether ministers, representatives or CEOs, would never come up with the idea of starting with the necessary adjustments with themselves - no, the company, the country or the economy can even do it are not doing badly enough to preclude a further increase in their own salary; At most, the routinely guaranteed increases will be delayed slightly, but then adjusted at the best interest rate.
We are increasingly developing into a pure baksheesh society, as most citizens are probably guided by their great role models and will no longer shake hands unless they receive at least some incentive for doing so, no matter how small. Just like our professional politicians who, no matter how well they are paid, always want an extra icing on the cake.
And so the recent discussions about “paying” volunteer work have not only been very tiring, but also raise the urgent question of what is wrong with those who not only want to hold on to unpaid volunteer work, but also to a democracy for everyone solidarity with one another? Do pure ideology and sheer egoism really replace all of our values?
The most disturbing thing for me at the weekend was again how people interpret democracy once they have made it into the relevant positions themselves. The justification for this is usually practicality and time savings in order to undermine even the simplest democratic processes.
What speaks against electing board members secretly? And what speaks against the fact that, if there is a list election, the voters are then allowed to vote without an enforced minimum vote?
But what are supposed democrats thinking about the fact that as a member you are only allowed to vote secretly if at least five percent of all eligible voters have previously requested this officially and coram publico? And which democrat also enshrines something like this in a statute?
I was lucky enough to be born into a democracy a good sixty years ago and I have to slowly but surely come to terms with the fact that if it doesn't become a dictatorship, I will at least be buried in a GDR 2.0.
