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Greens co-boss Habeck: A we who argue
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Robert Habeck loves to speak in parables.
In the parable of the great rain, for example, which the Green co-boss presented at the digital party conference in Karlsruhe at the weekend, heavy precipitation falls on the parched soil of German society.
The water cannot seep away, it forms ditches that divide the country into hostile camps - until the Greens finally "face the tasks of the new age," as Habeck says, that is: to rule.
Then, he promises, "we can be a new we again, a we who quarrel, but on the basis of a common reality."
So far, so harmonious.
So hopeful.
So beautiful.
But, one wonders: what in the world is hidden behind the mysterious rain that sets history in motion?
Does he stand for the climate emergency that is dividing the country?
Perhaps you mean populism with its hate messages and conspiracy theories?
Or does Habeck have the ideas of the environmental movement in mind, which unfortunately do not fall on fertile soil under the regime of the grand coalition?
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