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Sascha Lobos podcast on the conservative esotericism of Merz, Reul and Seehofer

2020-09-27T15:12:08.980Z


Merz, Reul, Seehofer: Prominent conservatives are fleeing the realities of the 21st century and ending up in their own esotericism, wrote columnist Sascha Lobo. In the podcast he takes up reader reactions.


Since the beginning of the millennium, "a large number of conservative basic assumptions about the world and society have emerged as moderately whisked curd", wrote Sascha Lobo in his most recent column, "When gut feeling triumphs over reason".

Many conservatives would not tolerate this knowledge, which is why they took refuge in "conservative esotericism".

Men like Friedrich Merz, Horst Seehofer and Herbert Reul, but also Christian Lindner would "adhere to a long-faded matter of course, the stage nod, the creation of infamous connections, the open denial of facts".

One, as Lobo lists, puts homosexuality and pedophilia in a context, the other two Union politicians see no problem of racism and certainly no need to investigate it, because that would only be science and not facts.

And Lindner puts a sexist sore on top.

Regardless of whether the four men would learn something from it, whether it is "great luck", writes Lobo, "that this eso-conservatism has to endure open and harsh contradiction in the social-media 21st century."

In itself, Lobo also recognizes positive traits in conservatism, at least from the perspective of the Union voters: They chose "the certainty of not having to change; that is worth a lot to many people".

Especially because this promise of peace, order and bourgeoisie "keeps surprisingly often" to the annoyance of the left and progressives.

But "conservatism minus rationality is toxic political junk".

In his podcast, Lobo takes up a few letters from his readers.

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Source: spiegel

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