The professional
Tomorrow is the time (finally).
In the small series, how did the Chancellor candidates fare in the election campaign, today it's about
Olaf Scholz
from the
SPD
.
He started with miserable polls; the Social Democrats were at 15 percent at the beginning of the year.
Then, in the summer, the miracle happened: the numbers kept going up and up, and no one could say why.
It wasn't because of Scholz, that is, because he suddenly did something differently.
Scholz
relentlessly
remained
Merkel second
throughout the election campaign.
He always made the same face, always spoke in the same tone, showed himself to be able to cope with all situations with a small performative repertoire.
In contrast to Baerbock and Laschet, you saw
the professional, the professional politician through and through
.
Scholz is the living rejection of the wish that politics can or must be completely different from what we know.
Anyone who wants hardly anything to change can rely on Scholz.
If you don't want that, you have to look elsewhere.
Red-green politics:
Why Scholz has to do the Schröder
Farewell to the reader
It's time to celebrate farewell number two.
Angela Merkel
resigned as party chairman
in 2018, and she will remain with us as Chancellor for a while until her successor is sworn in. On the
other hand,
your
career as a member of parliament ends
immediately after the election. She has been a member of the German Bundestag for 31 years. It cannot be said that this was the platform on which she made a big mark.
This was where her greatest weakness became apparent: the unwillingness to emerge as a speaker.
She mostly limited herself to being the
leading reader in the country
, stayed close to the manuscript, droned more than she emphasized.
Merkel showed that she could do it differently in her speech in December 2020 when she urged the Germans to adhere to the Corona rules and thus save Christmas.
Angela Merkel in the Marlow Bird Park: freaked out once
The power of fiction
In order to escape my election fever in Berlin, I went to Lech in Austria for a few days, to the Philosophicum.
This year the theme is
"As if - the power of fiction"
.
Konrad Paul Liessmann
gave an illuminating lecture yesterday, it's always a pleasure to listen to people who are smarter than you are.
Liessmann made it clear that we all live permanently in a largely fictional world.
Even with the welcome question "How are you", we pretend that we are interested.
But we usually don't.
An honest answer would likely shock us.
I also found it interesting that, according to Kant, we are free when we pretend we are free.
But I have to admit that my mind soon came back to the choice, triggered by the word model calculation.
Politically, we have been in a pretend
world
more than usual in the last few weeks
by pretending that the
polls
roughly reflect
the election result
, especially as journalists (see above).
Fortunately there was a kind of absolution from Liessmann: You can't get along without fictions.
SPIEGEL survey: The race is completely open
The 2 is the number 1
In the position yesterday I raised the question of which
prime number is the most political
.
I received some suggestions, 3, 5, 2017 for example.
My favorite is 2
.
Reason: There is a
trend
in the parties
towards dual leadership
(Greens, SPD, Left, AfD), bilateral talks and relationships are certainly the most common in politics, in states with majority rights there is often a dualism of two major parties (USA, Great Britain), and the Federal Republic was ruled by two-party coalitions for the longest time.
Weekend winners ...
... are the
voters
.
Among other things, that's the nice thing about democracy that there are votes, that they are free, that they are secret, that anyone can cast their vote without fear, to whoever.
So be sure to go to the polling station on Sunday, paint the crosses cleanly and hum the melody of the winning song "We are the Champions".
Foreigners' right to vote in Germany: "Voting should be a right and not a privilege"
The latest news from the night
Huawei CFO released:
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou has reached an agreement with the US judiciary and is allowed to return to China.
A kind of probation procedure was agreed
Prince Andrew now accepts the civil suit:
First, Prince Andrew wanted to challenge the lawsuit and jurisdiction of the court, now he has agreed with the plaintiff on a date of service.
Virginia Giuffre accuses him of molesting her as a minor
After murder of 13-year-old in England - young people sentenced to long imprisonment:
Two 14-year-olds have been sentenced to 12 and 13 years in prison for the murder of a minor in Reading.
To date, there is no precise information about the motif
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I wish you a good start to the day.
Yours Dirk Kurbjuweit