Screenshot from the election commercial of the Greens: Very thin ice
If you believe their opponents, the Greens are mainly trying to attract fluid minorities with queer cargo bikes and gender equitable nonsense in their heads. But now that its secret core clientele is starting to vote by post, the party is letting the conservative cat out of the bag. Instead of a non-binary trap at the youngsters, the current spot with classic folk songs aims at a mature center: "No beautiful land", rewritten with cautious irony in "A beautiful land", which is supposedly possible with the Greens.
Imagine if the Union would bring "Black and brown is the hazelnut" or the left would bring the "Internationale" to a lecture, the liberals perhaps "The freedom that I mean, which fills my heart, comes with your shine, sweet angel image".
All of this would be less surprising than the fact that the Greens of all people pick up a song from 1840.
It is not without skill.
Especially since a more beautiful country was not possible back then, but today it is definitely possible.
More radical, if not in the sense of this election campaign, would only be a repositioning of the national anthem in the spirit of the Greens.
Very thin ice, which could mean another misstep to step on so close to the choice.
Or?
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The tweeting part of the progressive electorate does not find such a recourse to the traditional anyway and naturally not funny.
With this part alone, however, there will be no elections to be won.
In addition to the well-behaved high school graduates, you also need the grandma, the resolute civil servant, the soft men at the grill, the distinctive beauty on the beach, the refugees "in work", the academic with a migration background and the cook Sarah Wiener with her frightening baritone.
The clip is a suggestive appeal to grandparents to think about the future of their grandchildren for a second; its appeal, reminiscent of Protestant church days, plays with traditional as well as responsibility ethics.
The song does not rely on reason, but on emotion.
Hence the "cringe" with which a younger generation hears it.
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Only at the very end of this clever interweaving of tender patriotism and sect-like rumbling of belonging ("There is so much that unites us, because you are also meant here") does unbroken political pathos come into play.
Robert Habeck does not sing, he speaks: "Now give it your all", as we know it from the edge of the field, most recently Annalena Baerbock: "Live the new departure, we are ready."
Now skepticism or even violent rejection - sometimes a strong kick in the shin - is appropriate as soon as something is to be "lived", even if it is the departure.
Of course you can also be bothered by the crooked singing.
However, luck should predominate that the Greens did not come up with an ironic choreography for their excursion into the popular.
If you don't like this clip, it's none of your business.
