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Contents can be read in the election program, much more exciting is the drama about the people who are available for election
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So, last week's general election campaign really amused me, and as far as I am concerned it can go on for quite a while before it becomes heavy-handed.
As if ordered and not picked up, the calls for more objectivity and "content" can be heard.
But it's like trying to turn on the lights in the cinema, although the film is only in the middle of it and the cup of popcorn is still half full.
In the Spiegel editorial too, the author says: "If things continue like this, the citizens will know everything about Annalena Baerbock on election day - but nothing about the future plans for the country." To be honest: given the choice, now everything about person , To find out the strength of nerves and character of a possible chancellor, or to find out more details from her electoral program in writing, then I would know what to choose. In contrast to text-loving leftists, pragmatic liberals and history-minded conservatives know: election programs are political commitments for coalition negotiations, while political persons are the stuff of which the history of a country is written if the worst comes to the worst. In any case, none of the four major crises in Angela Merkel's chancellorship was on any election manifesto.
For good or for bad,
it all came down to the woman in the Chancellery.
Election programs are political endorsements for coalition negotiations, whereas political persons are the material from which the history of a country is written if the worst comes to the worst.
Trust in the person, habit if you like, is the chancellor's capital right to the end.
Above all, this is what the potential successors have to be measured against.
Olaf Scholz uses this comparison himself because he hopes to do well as an experienced Vice Chancellor.
Candidates who want to expect something from the people after the election, be it a comprehensive "restart" (Laschet) or a solid climate revolution (Baerbock), must also advertise trust in their own person.
With this in mind, the Green Party put forward top candidates at the »Brigitte« election talk, and you learned a lot of personal information. When Frau Baerbock is stressed, she gets small blisters on her fingers, she came out. She and her husband are like Ernie and Bert (or the other way around), she said. That was spontaneous and daring, just imagine what would be going on if Armin Laschet said that he and his wife were like Bert and Ernie.
It also came out that Annalena Baerbock has by no means given up the fight for the middle and the over 50 voters, but goes where it really hurts. When asked which songs she could sing, she replied: "Over seven bridges" (Peter Maffay) and "Atemlos" by Helene Fischer. This means that it can be connected to any village fair, because the Greens are only something for the hippster milieus of the few German megacities.
Finally, Ms. Baerbock was asked what she would like to have different or "bigger" about her body, as the two "Brigitte" colleagues put it. I very much hope that this question will also be asked of the two male candidates. Their spin-doctores would have to put a little more effort into the preparation than just twisting political phrase bingo, à la: ›Stability in Transition‹ or ›Departure with a sense of proportion‹. So what would Armin Laschet and Olaf Scholz have bigger about them?
In retrospect, the respective answers can be found naive, stupid or somehow authentic and honest, as opinions will probably differ.
But hand on heart, who is not at least as interested in that as the question of whether the Greens want a wealth tax (which they will never get through in coalition negotiations) or whether the CDU wants to insist on the "black zero" (which will not come into effect until the mid-20s at the earliest) Years is achievable)?
No, almost all of them want to see the opponents sweat a bit in the arena.
We'll be talking about climate protection for the whole hot summer, which is why I think that despite the green descent in the surveys, the fair has not yet been read.
When the CDU and CSU dismantled their K question using every trick in the book, I wrote that there wasn't as much popcorn as the Greens would like to eat. That was also great cinema, and now the Greens are delivering themselves: Not only the celebrity lawyer promos they hired have real popcorn potential. The line of defense in matters of "copy & paste" in Baerbock's book is of course still fragile. "Children need rules," said the candidate for chancellor at one point in the interview. And what does she say to her two children when they copy from Wikipedia into the school essay?
In short: We will be talking about climate protection for the whole hot summer, which is why I also think that despite the green descent in the surveys, the trade fair has not yet been read. With every heat record, every forest fire or even just because of a wave in the asphalt of a German autobahn, the Greens can always say: You see, climate catastrophe! This may be exaggerated at one point or another, but it is not the worst game draft in an election campaign when the evening news on television presents the same topics as your own election posters. And when Hans-Georg Maaßen at the same time (maybe because of that?) Calls for a kind of test of opinion on parts of public broadcasting, then even he ennobles the topic in his own way. And also the Greens will suddenly admitthat people are the most exciting thing in an election campaign.
