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With the attacks on the railway infrastructure in the north of the Federal Republic, a new quality has probably been reached, since the assassins obviously no longer come from the circle of the usual killers of the anti-democratic camp, but this time terrorists who acted a little more skilfully acted. This suggests an external government client. If you take into account the developments of the last few years, then this attack can be counted among the attacks that the Russian Federation has already carried out on Europe and the free world.

The really critical thing about this is that our completely antiquated nation states are not capable of reacting adequately to such dangers. I will therefore come back to the fact, which has already been mentioned several times, that today's societies in a world that is growing ever faster together need a common idea; I already had the American Dream or the European idea addressed, which could give our societies the kit that then also holds them together.

In contrast to many fellow citizens, I am of the opinion that our nation states only have a basis of existence if they can guarantee the “welfare state function” for all their citizens, because this is the only kit that such states still have today. The groups of people living in a state are already too diverse and individual, with language, religion or culture hardly having a binding function. Michael Wolffsohn already addressed the whole thing in 2015 in his book “Zum Weltfrieden. A political draft”, proposing a new federalism draft of the different communication spaces as a solution.

My approach to a solution is still that of the European idea, which, however, is still viewed as utopian by many fellow citizens or even rejected out of conviction. With this we fall back on the antiquated model of the nation-state, which, as already mentioned, can only function halfway as long as it provides social security for its citizens - and this applies both to the long-established and to the newcomers. In everything else, the citizens disagree, although they are very proud of their own origins, whether they are descended from the Germans or come from some other corner of the world. Perhaps all of them agree that they can sue “their” state for everything without being obliged to provide their own “services”.

And so we will probably soon experience the litmus test for our nation states in Europe again, namely when we are moving more and more towards a new world war, which will then also involve ideologies, religions and other differences (in the short term) or just simply resources and still habitable areas (long term) will be managed.

And so we must now ask ourselves which side our fellow citizens will be on, wherever they come from or which religion or worldview they may ascribe themselves to. Because this is of existential importance at the latest as soon as the power grids fail, the gas and water pipes transport less than usual and food distribution becomes more difficult.

It is hard to imagine that our citizens will then all gather behind the federal flag and jointly face the problems and crises that arise - the majority of East German citizens are already gone today and the anti-democrats throughout the republic are already tinkering with Molotov cocktails.

In some of our neighboring countries, the anti-democrats are already calling the shots or are pulling, such as For example, tens of thousands recently roamed the streets of France as the new APO. And all this before the first real difficulties affect us all!

Should it actually come to the point that the first Germans have to freeze this winter involuntarily and also halfway through no fault of their own, then we will certainly regret that we demonized the Americans with their American Dream, smashed transatlantic cooperation and in addition, all Europeans who promoted the European idea were at best relegated to the corner of hopeless dreamers.

"It's not wise to defend what you have to give up anyway."

Niccolò Machiavelli, The History of Florence (1525)

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  • @Wolfram Herzog If you see the whole thing in such a shaky way, then in my opinion the convening of local people's congresses actually helps to send a very clear signal to the other citizens, the parties, simply through the mass of people who want to actively change something and to send the governments. But then you have to go to the polls - which I have already recommended several times - and send a clear signal by submitting an invalid ballot paper.

    I am firmly convinced that one single successful action alone will bring about huge changes.

    But when you realize that only a tiny minority come to the congresses and the ballot papers remain filled out, you have to ask yourself whether the vast majority is actually quite happy to live with this madness?

    And then you have the opportunity to "march through the courts" and convince the citizens, one by one.

    Democracy is certainly the most difficult form of government; but it does a pretty good job of ensuring that the vast majority get exactly what they deserve — though sometimes not what they actually wanted.

  • Everything is presented a bit simply "black and white" - especially when it comes to the view of the new federal states. When was the last time you spoke to citizens from East Germany?
    If I look at the traffic light policy, which is unfortunately completely free of facts and only about power and ideology, but the citizen at best only appears as an extra who has to obey, then it's just about protest.
    It seems to me that the powerful just need a psychologically effective justification for their power, whether they hold weird referendums like Putin or organize EU elections like the EU, in order to then appoint a completely different boss who fled from scandals to Brussels and his Deletes messages about the Pfizer boss, but ridiculously lectures individual EU states on the rule of law.

    • Speaking up has never been my thing. And just last weekend I had the opportunity to do so. Unfortunately, after more than 30 years, the simple lamentation still prevails there — in my opinion, with the turnaround, the new citizens were not only promised far too much, but also made it far too easy for them. All of us, by the way, too.

      As far as politics is concerned — in my opinion of the last few decades — things are actually not looking good. However, it is still much better here than in those countries where democracy has already completely died out.

      That's why we have to address these issues again and again in order to persuade our fellow citizens to bring about changes, whether as representatives of the people or as voters.

      Merely walking around or even attacking weaker ones is certainly not the solution.

        • If the goal is that you want to change something democratically, then you could motivate our people's representatives at larger self-organized events to get into conversation with local citizens - I firmly assume that almost everyone will accept this offer.

          ME, the old "people's congresses" also have their charm, whereby the people's representatives are allowed to participate.

          With us, the traditional way continues to be via the parties and electoral groups — in contrast to the first two options, however, this is real hard work, although nowadays most people despair and withdraw from the discussion again.

          I myself have been trying option 1 (Hertenstein Talks) for a long time and, after decades of abstinence, I have again taken option 3 (free voters).

          For option 2, I suspect there are too few participants, at least in our room, to be able to even begin to be successful.

          • Well, these proposals are the "march through the institutions" - but in my opinion unsuitable in the case of "acute political madness". until z. For example, if the “free voters” become politically effective, our society has already “crossed the river Wupper”.