Germany Day of the Junge Union: "Yes we can" instead of "How dare you?"

Future, future, future. Hardly a word has fallen more frequently on the "Deutschlandtag" of the Junge Union (JU), except maybe "Germany" and "Innovation". The topic of the primary election was already politically launched on Friday. Now we look to the future. Important topic.

So where does the journey go when it comes to the ideas of the party-political youth organization on the continent, in the most powerful country in Europe? What do the conservative young Christians think so about? What are you worried about? Rezo and Greta Thunberg, sure.

And what, Catholic speaking, may they hope?

In outline this becomes clear when listening to the speeches of the arrivierten guests. Jens Spahn, Peter Altmaier and Markus ("There is only one 'Markus Söder, there is only one' Markus Söder, there is only one Markus Sööööder!) Söder anyway wish in unison, as if they had agreed, just more good mood , Optimism instead of apocalypse. Tiger in the tank instead of devil on the wall. "Yes we can" instead of "How dare you?".

About the right-reactionary competitors are not lost many words. "Höcke" is enough, and a joint trip to the synagogue of Saarbrücken was a strong sign. The once so proud Social Democracy "is sitting sadly in the corner", as Söder notes, so falls as an opponent completely from. Their role has taken a left, which still refuses to call the GDR a "injustice".

So the real challenger is green. Therefore, the stage is decorated with floral motifs, so guests get Saarland specialties in wooden boxes. And seedlings, because the JU also wants to be green.

Only with measure. And good mood.

Markus Söder expressly protects his Baden-Wuerttemberg Minister-President colleague Winfried Kretschmann. But who comes afterwards? And the rest of the bunch? Dream dancers and do-gooders who want to improve the world with bans and incidentally want to destroy the German economy.

The Greens lack patriotism, which must be "cosmopolitan" (Spahn), and do not know the country. Because they are sitting in "Berlin-Mitte", in every speech they sit in "Berlin-Mitte", where, because there are no wind turbines, they want to save the province with wind turbines and want to lay gigantic power lines through the front yard.

From "Berlin-Mitte", the Greens, according to Paul ("Our Paul! Our Paul!") Lead Ziemiak, an "ideological struggle against rural areas". Your weapons? Again wind turbines, the wolf and the abolition of commuter tax. "It sounds so good and green and great," says Söder, annoyed, but who should pay? Who has so much money?

"Fridays For Future" is smiled benevolently, sometimes maliciously. These are children, by the way also a quite successful youth movement. On the other hand, you can shoot in on the activists of "Extinction Rebellion". They wanted, says Spahn, to try out a "green painted socialism".

No experiments! With innovation, Germany will continue to play a leading role in the future, that's what it looks like.

And the young people of the Junge Union itself? Discuss about countless applications such as, very important, the central high school. That there are many, no doubt, serious concerns is somewhat lost when Tilman Kuban compares the right to asylum with "free beer." Previously, the JU was left, today she tugs on the right trouser leg of her mother party - while Ziemiak or Söder clearly distinguish themselves from racism.

Outside the hall is the bar table of the Union of values ​​constantly rearranged, they have interesting positions, apparently applies: there you can openly come into conversation. And the SME and economic union has come up with a participatory game. By throwing the ball into one of four glass cylinders, the delegates can choose what "the most important topic" is. "Climate protection" is in last place, well behind "tax cuts". The most important topic, by far, is "infrastructure development".

Jens Spahn comes by and grabs a ball for a photo, smiles at the camera and chooses "Illegal Immigration". He probably just did not look.

In the framework program, a representative of Greenpeace explains to the questioner why the organization is not a "Abmahnverein" that wants to split society with its "provocative and apocalyptic utterances". Next door, Peter Altmaier explains the world to his devoutly listening fans: "As Minister of the Environment, I have always said ...".

The audience is sitting on cardboard, sponsored by DocMorris.

And this detail is only the beginning.

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Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier (l), at JU Germany Day: Stool by DocMorris

The further you walk in the sprawling spaces of the Congress Center, the clearer it becomes in which world the approximately 120,000 members of the Junge Union really live. For which world they enter, what they hope for, everything is physically built there.

At Huawei, you can embroider socks with his name and drink a smoothie from the Association of Private Health Insurers. McDonald's is sustainable ("Believe it or not, animal welfare is important to us!"). Philipp Morris brings innovative "alternatives to tobacco enjoyment" among the people, a Japanese rival company simply cigarettes.

An e-scooter rental makes electromobility "sensually tangible" and the delegates are only too happy to take the opportunity and swing around the SUV on the spacious parking lot in front of the Congresshalle.

At the Association of the German Automatenwirtschaft ("Only legal arcades!") You can play table football, the Association of Electrical Engineering also. Telekom invites you to immerse yourself in telekomfarbenen bean bags. Union Investment brings fund transactions into play, the German Sparkassen- and Giroverband rather classic investment models.

Armament corporations such as MBDA (air-to-air rakets, ground-to-air missiles, bombs) or General Dynamic (just about anything), who promote understanding and future leaders on "Deutschlandtag", are also in good spirits.

It is a grotesquely tasteless mix of fair and fair, open lobbyism and walk-in career installation. On the one hand.

On the other hand, you have to see that without ideological blinders, quite pragmatic, so calmly look at it, calmly touch us, so that all our prosperity will be achieved, with moderation, innovation and optimism, that's how we solve all the problems , my dear friends, we want to be realistic, that's where the future is going, including our own. Is an important topic.