The typical behavior of a political Ash Wednesday, knocking on the political opponent, failed on the "Ash Day" of the Starnberg CSU - the CSU let itself be a bit hit, because the columnist Jan Fleischhauer ("Focus", formerly "Der Spiegel") was did not come to cuddle with the CSU. His topic "What is conservative?" Caused some top CSU candidates to ponder.
Starnberg– The CSU has always been more food for thought than beer tent polemics at this event. Fleischhauer added a shaken measure of humor because "I can't choose a party that doesn't laugh". To be conservative is not to want to preserve everything - then the Greens would be the most conservative party because they wanted to go back to the 1810s. Rather, the experienced journalist and author described the conservative as an attitude to the world, as cheerful pessimism. However, the conservative, who is actually aiming for factual compromises, faces new times, a "new excitement" that Fleischhauer sees, especially among the left, which has lost its sovereignty of interpretation. Also in the media, culture and universities. The trend towards moralizing politics can be seen in small-scale debates, such as - constructed - the width of a walkway. Anyone who is around 20 centimeters more faces the argument "Do you want to sin against the world climate?" In these “indignant times” there are poles of calm - like Chancellor Angela Merkel, in which some don't even notice that she is governing. "They love the Germans for that," stated Fleischhauer.
He brushed up on the Germans' fear of poisoning from food and radiation, pondered hypermoral issues and then gave the CSU a few tips - apart from that, being humorous and unexcited. Example AfD: Their voters are by no means to be brought back with a basic pension or money in another form. He doubts that it is possible at all - and whether the parties really wanted it. He accused the German left of always showing a certain contempt for the people. "If you tell people that they are basically fools, they will pay you back" - that explains for Fleischhauer part of the AfD's success. To stigmatize her like the Republicans once did, she was too big. He himself no longer uses "contaminated" AfD terms (such as the lying press).
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