Generation Gottschalk

Germany is coming to terms. The most sacred place of reappraisal is, as it should be, the Reichstag in Berlin. After all, this building is the temple of democracy. More than four years ago, the aforementioned democracy building was attacked under the military leadership of the alternative practitioner Tamara K. On August 29, 2020, three heroic police officers prevented worse things from happening during the storming of the Reichstag. Back then, democracy was saved at the last second. This is the only reason why the past can be dealt with in parliament today. Corona is the past perfect tense, a closed past. This tiresome topic should finally be put to rest. Nevertheless, we are finally coming to terms with it! Other problems are finally being dealt with! I am following the political pecking order. The chancellor deserves to be treated as a priority.

Olaf Scholz addresses the miserable family policy of the previous CDU governments. The Chancellor did so in a speech in the Bundestag that was extremely emotional by his standards. Unfortunately for Scholz, the Ministry of Family Affairs has been headed by Social Democrats since 2013. In particular by the ministers Manuela Schwesig, Katharina Barley and Christine Lambrecht. This is presumably why the portfolio was placed in the capable green hands of Anne Spiegel in 2021, until she passed the baton on to Lisa Paus due to commitment problems. What will Olaf Scholz work on next? It cannot be ruled out that Scholz will take on the predecessor of Finance Minister Christian Lindner. Where could Germany be under Chancellor Scholz if Finance Minister Scholz had not attacked the German SME sector with a bazooka?

The FDP is working on itself with Marco Buschmann. The Liberals are working against their growing unpopularity by setting new topics without necessity. Criminal offenses should no longer be viewed in isolation, but should also be examined in terms of their harmfulness to the common good. Justice Minister Marco Buschmann thought so in a speech in the Bundestag. Perhaps he was thinking of his FDP colleague Rainer Stinner, who once described unvaccinated people as "dangerous social pests". However, Buschmann probably thought that the FDP was in a state of cardiovascular arrest anyway. In such a delirium, even the last liberal organs can be removed. The liberals no longer want to wait until the final liberal-democratic brain death. It is not without a certain irony that the FDP is thinking about definitions of death politically. When I think of brain death, I also think of Karl Lauterbach, for whatever reason.

Lauterbach is also working on it. The German health minister is making delicate progress in his windmill battle against the truth. You just have to listen carefully enough. During a question and answer session, AfD MP Christina Baum wanted to know whether Lauterbach was campaigning for the release of soldiers imprisoned for refusing to be vaccinated in light of the RKI protocols. In earlier times, Lauterbach would have immediately accused the questioner of lying. Today, he no longer goes that far. He merely denies the reality of reality, which I think is progress. For Lauterbach, this reality, which is on all the front pages, seems - quote - "not plausible". For Sergeant Major Alexander Bittner, who is in Aichach prison near Augsburg because of his refusal to be vaccinated, his imprisonment probably doesn't seem plausible either, but his detention is nevertheless extremely real.

Annalena Baerbock showed a real willingness to come to terms with the past. The secret letter to Israel, which according to her own ministry did not even exist on Monday, does now exist according to the German Foreign Minister. Baerbock also confirmed this in the Bundestag when asked by Armin Laschet. Was this admission illegal? Was it a betrayal of secrecy because no information from the meetings of the Federal Security Council is allowed to leak out? Forget it! Annalena doesn't like to beat around the bush and tells it like it is. Yes, as a government we are afraid of popular uprisings. Yes, we are waging a war against Russia. Yes, I don't care about the will of the voters. Yes, we wrote that damn letter in which we attached conditions to the use of German weapons. Baerbock is just childishly honest. Whether that is wise as Germany's top diplomat is another matter.

Major reappraisals of minor issues in the Bundestag. Still no reappraisal of the major issue of corona. What is needed here is an APA, an extra-parliamentary reappraisal on television. I don't know how many people have applied for this position. What is certain is that the choice for the public service investigation into the mafia crime of coronavirus fell on the godfather, a person Harald Schmidt once described as the resurrected Black Forest Clinic.

Eckart von Hirschhausen works through Corona. "Hirschhausen and our corona failure". This is the title of the documentary, which will be shown on Monday, November 18, during prime time on the German TV channel Ersten. The following questions are not addressed in the documentary. Are unvaccinated people really asocial freeloaders for von Hirschhausen? Did von Hirschhausen really want to revoke the licenses of doctors critical of vaccination? Has the 1.4 million dollars that Hirschhausen's "Healthy Earth-Healthy People" foundation received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation been used up in the meantime? Did the TV doctor really only receive a fee of 71,400 euros from a handsome vaccination advertising agency? I think this amount is too low in view of his high profile. We're still talking about the Black Forest Clinic. 

I also work on. The donkey should always come last. I make mistakes in columns and in real life that I want to work through. So I belong to the Gottschalk generation. I bet I watched "Wetten, dass..." several times in my youth. To my shame, I didn't know that Gottschalk was a misogynistic bastard. I didn't even know what the term misogyny meant. Now that the term exists, there is a lot of misogyny and toxic masculinity. Probably in me too. Language creates reality. Or does it? The Gottschalk generation lived in a liberal democracy. You can see that very clearly from the fact that they didn't talk about liberal democracy all the time. Far too little attention is paid to the topic of language.