The Great Fraud
Es ist einer der größten Skandale in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik. Eine weder gewollte noch gewählte Koalition beschließt, ohne im Amt zu sein, mit den Stimmen der alten Mehrheiten ein Gesetz, das weder Sinn macht noch reichen die dürftigen Erklärungen der Schuldenmacher aus, um ihr Verbrechen zu rechtfertigen.
By Serdar Somuncu
By Serdar Somuncu
For it is an assault on democracy and a massive mountain of debt that will pile up in the minds of future generations in the coming decades. The flimsy efforts of those involved to conceal their lies and disguise them as reform are both brazen and transparent. The entire operation is nothing less than a hypocritical token of love for Ukraine and a betrayal of its own people. The result will be that the AfD will continue to gain votes, and the citizens will pay the price. In the coming weeks, a discussion will begin about raising VAT and other maneuvers to squeeze money out of the pockets of people already reeling from rising energy and living costs for a war that even the Americans no longer want to wage, because they realize that the senseless bloodshed for supposed freedom has resulted in a financial and ideological dead end that neither benefits the Ukrainians nor contributes to making European efforts to create a more just world and ward off the Antichrist Putin more credible.
Rather, it shows how politicians have taken it upon themselves to constantly distort the truth in their own favor and create a new truth from it, one that does not even begin to conceal the more unfair methods they use to pursue their own interests. Everyone knows that non-Chancellor Merz is a Blackrock lobbyist; everyone knows that the Greens, already accustomed to collapse, have been bribed with a special investment in climate protection; and everyone also knows that support for Ukraine is nothing more than lip service intended to annex resources and markets in the East. If one truly and seriously wanted to support Ukraine, one would not only have given it billions in financial aid that disappears into thin air, but above all one would have followed up the rhetoric with action and admitted Ukraine into NATO. But that neither the imperialists in the West nor the autocrats in the East can have any interest in this has long been clear to all who know that such an approach will inevitably lead to a Third World War. Friedrich Merz is nevertheless putting everything on the line. He knows he can only become chancellor if he creates majorities beyond the AfD, and that's precisely what he seems to have achieved with this violation of the will of the voters. The parties of the "democratic center" are rallying around him in the hope that they won't be left out of the generous distribution of the debt, and they aren't afraid to abandon their former principles in a very short space of time. What do I care about my election promise from yesterday when I'm already finding new phrases today to justify the historic breach of promise? Reforms for dilapidated infrastructure, education, and the climate must be put forward to conceal the fact that the real core of this shabby maneuver is the fear that the "Russians," as they are once again openly called these days, are at our door, threatening our free and liberal world. To do this, they simply invest EUR500 billion, which they can increase to over EUR1 trillion if necessary, and deceive people into believing that they have only good intentions and are acting out of a sense of responsibility towards future generations.
The greatest irresponsibility is the sheer amount of debt, which will almost certainly bring us an economic and fiscal disaster from which we will find it difficult to escape in the coming years. Paradoxically, the only ones calling this swindle by its name are the opposition parties on the far right and left, even though they unfortunately do not yet have the power to prevent the plans of the intended coalition of losers. But if things continue like this, with a formerly ousted parliamentary group leader and already untrustworthy chancellor building himself and his power by stoking irrational fears, the currently seemingly comfortable scenario will quickly transform into a situation without alternatives, in which the remaining alternative is already contained in the name of the next governing party. May common sense and fate protect us from this development, for with what the henchmen of the loss of democracy have just prepared, a truly authoritarian force can wreak great havoc. So let's not be surprised if we end up sliding headlong into ruin, but rather invest our common sense in stubborn resistance against organized demagogy.
March 18, 2025
©Serdar Somuncu
Current program "Seelenheil" now downloadable in Shop
*Serdar Somuncu is an actor and director
Rather, it shows how politicians have taken it upon themselves to constantly distort the truth in their own favor and create a new truth from it, one that does not even begin to conceal the more unfair methods they use to pursue their own interests. Everyone knows that non-Chancellor Merz is a Blackrock lobbyist; everyone knows that the Greens, already accustomed to collapse, have been bribed with a special investment in climate protection; and everyone also knows that support for Ukraine is nothing more than lip service intended to annex resources and markets in the East. If one truly and seriously wanted to support Ukraine, one would not only have given it billions in financial aid that disappears into thin air, but above all one would have followed up the rhetoric with action and admitted Ukraine into NATO. But that neither the imperialists in the West nor the autocrats in the East can have any interest in this has long been clear to all who know that such an approach will inevitably lead to a Third World War. Friedrich Merz is nevertheless putting everything on the line. He knows he can only become chancellor if he creates majorities beyond the AfD, and that's precisely what he seems to have achieved with this violation of the will of the voters. The parties of the "democratic center" are rallying around him in the hope that they won't be left out of the generous distribution of the debt, and they aren't afraid to abandon their former principles in a very short space of time. What do I care about my election promise from yesterday when I'm already finding new phrases today to justify the historic breach of promise? Reforms for dilapidated infrastructure, education, and the climate must be put forward to conceal the fact that the real core of this shabby maneuver is the fear that the "Russians," as they are once again openly called these days, are at our door, threatening our free and liberal world. To do this, they simply invest EUR500 billion, which they can increase to over EUR1 trillion if necessary, and deceive people into believing that they have only good intentions and are acting out of a sense of responsibility towards future generations.
The greatest irresponsibility is the sheer amount of debt, which will almost certainly bring us an economic and fiscal disaster from which we will find it difficult to escape in the coming years. Paradoxically, the only ones calling this swindle by its name are the opposition parties on the far right and left, even though they unfortunately do not yet have the power to prevent the plans of the intended coalition of losers. But if things continue like this, with a formerly ousted parliamentary group leader and already untrustworthy chancellor building himself and his power by stoking irrational fears, the currently seemingly comfortable scenario will quickly transform into a situation without alternatives, in which the remaining alternative is already contained in the name of the next governing party. May common sense and fate protect us from this development, for with what the henchmen of the loss of democracy have just prepared, a truly authoritarian force can wreak great havoc. So let's not be surprised if we end up sliding headlong into ruin, but rather invest our common sense in stubborn resistance against organized demagogy.
March 18, 2025
©Serdar Somuncu
Current program "Seelenheil" now downloadable in Shop
*Serdar Somuncu is an actor and director
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