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Water cannon deterrent because with children: climate demo in Berlin 2021
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»Markets like totalitarian governments«
(Larry Fink, Black Rock )
Larry Fink, the gifted bankrupt and reinventing himself, will know what he's talking about as the owner of the largest shadow bank.
It looks like he no longer has to worry about his customers because things are going well.
People's trust in democracy is at its lowest point.
Let's see, what will come next.
Experts whisper of some kind of surveillance dictatorship or a new feudalism, but maybe something more interesting will happen after all?
Something anarchistic?
One of the top books of the French "invisible committee" is entitled "The Coming Insurrection."
The German translation was published by Nautilus in 2010, and today one is almost touched by the thought that the population could be carried away to a joint protest action.
Many have learned that traipsing around with signs is of little use, for example when you look at the success of the opponents of nuclear power, who are now in government responsibility.
Riots and protests that go beyond carrying around cardboard signs, such as the Yellow Vests in France, which were superbly organized, engaged in civic education and even attempted a bank run, were dealt with by Corona.
Just like the climate demonstrations, which had a certain water cannon deterrent effect because of the participation of children.
Protests are therefore described as undemocratic.
People could have chosen something sensible - without considering that even a democratic form of government is not protected from its main enemy: people.
His greed and his stupidity.
Media warn - that seems to have become their main task as mentioned above - of the increasing proportion of populations who do not value democracies, without attempting an analysis of why people's trust is waning.
Politicians have never been 100% resistant to corruption for decades.
In addition to those who unselfishly pursue the arduous task of running a country, there have always been some who are interested in personal enrichment or their re-election until a good job in the economy offers itself.
They make unwise decisions, and when caught in lies or wrongdoing, they resign.
So earlier.
Today, misconduct has hardly any consequences, as one could always rummage about in the emerging entanglements of business and politics, but when should one do that – studying a new scandal every day, a fresh leak, from mask deals to cum-ex, from lobbying failures , the connection between politics and the car industry, stupid Sylt weddings.
Apart from these scandals, it also seems that it has become unimportant how governments communicate their decisions.
After pandemic times, in which many small entrepreneurs, self-employed or freelancers are more or less bankrupt, it is now necessary to finance the necessary profits of corporations.
And it goes on - with war, climate catastrophe, water shortage and energy shortage, further with warnings, threats, catastrophe scenarios, and incidentally the highest dividends have been paid out for years.
Complicated economic processes, which in simplified terms could be understood as follows: A few people are just getting obscenely rich.
Most of the population will lose.
The communication of the politicians seems to be carried by only one headline: It doesn't matter.
Whether you explain decisions really transparently or just say something with fluff, lousy communication paired with unpleasant details, it would be - theoretically - a good time for a cross-camp protest, but: Even if the masses manage to find each other, the protests will – which does not even exist yet – are prophylactically classified and warned of possible
right
-wing protests (very good here is the teaser: Not only right-wing extremist groups... ) or of possible protests being infiltrated by fascists.
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So often, until even the last left-wing, liberal or just any citizen will be careful not to take to the streets with fascists.
SPIEGEL recently devoted a few print pages to the subject, and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is also warning.
You remember:
the Office for the Protection of the
Constitution.
Which one could certainly mistrust a little since Hans-Georg Maaßen and the announcement of the use of the state trojan, which for years observed neo-Nazis intensively but without any action: it doesn't matter.
There won't be any riots, because the distraction of sports and games, nonsense TV streaming and the Internet is going too well.
Everyone can carry on as before.
Most just desperate.
And eventually, if Larry Fink is to be believed, and markets, whoever they are, have succumbed to their autocracy tendencies, you don't even have to ask yourself, theoretically, when is enough.