What is going on with the Greens?
It was once the party of peace, it was the alliance of the ecos, the freaks and the unheard and the non-conformists. Then something happened and the Greens suddenly became a neoliberal party with a claim to power and the same structures as the parties they had criticized for years. The Greens have discovered power and have not been able to let it go since.
By Serdar Somuncu
By Serdar Somuncu
As a politician, you usually know when it's time to go. When you're losing elections in a series of elections and the polls are showing that public opinion has turned against you. It took far too long for Ricarda Lang to live up to her name and, together with her party friend and colleague Omid Nouripour, pull the ripcord and announce her resignation. It had been clear for some time that what is disguised as green has long since ceased to be green. The Greens have become the party of pragmatists.
They prefer to push through their sometimes absurd goals rather than do justice to the will of the voters. No wonder, the Greens have recently become more pedagogical and opinionated, acting as if the voters were a bunch of idiots who didn't understand what environmental awareness and modernization mean. The Greens themselves have shaken the foundations of our economic policy through their amateurism: they have alienated large parts of industry with their restrictions and intimidation, and not least the disaster in energy policy has led to people being fed up with the Greens and wanting not just a "fresh start" but an honorable exit. The Greens too must at some point realise that elections are only ever a temporary mandate, and anyone who goes against a large majority of the people and, like Anton Hofreiter, demands ever more loudly and arrogantly that we become a party to the war in Ukraine by supplying more weapons must also live with the fact that people will no longer trust them and will send them where they belong, namely to the opposition benches.
For too long the Greens have benefited from the fact that the SPD and CDU have weakened and that there seemed to be no alternative to either side of them. But now that the AfD is making gigantic leaps towards a majority and the so-called parties of the democratic center are also taking up the AfD's issues, the Greens have no choice but to be the remnants of a system that no longer lives on the fact that there is nothing to decide and that big slogans and absurd ideas can be used to show perspectives whose future viability is questionable. Whether it was the Veggie Day that people once raved about, or the abolition of fossil fuels in favor of nuclear power, whether it is the miscarriage of the electric car or an overly liberal immigration policy that sees every migrant as an asset and ignores threats: the time has long been ripe for a change. And before you put power in the hands of those who want to seize it through populism and scaremongering, you should pull the ripcord and leave it to those who offer more sensible solutions. What that will be in the end is an open question.
The BSW is prepared to be such an alternative to the alternative, but the SPD and the CDU are also slowly and gradually learning what it means to meet the demands of the times instead of always relying on the tried and tested. This includes a modern immigration policy, as well as an energy policy that rewards companies rather than punishing them. Fair taxes are just as important as the courage to address taboos in domestic and security policy. And last but not least, a decision against involvement in wars, whether indirectly or directly, could lead to a left-wing ecological party in Germany regaining the credibility it recently lost with the Greens.
09/25/24
©Serdar Somuncu
Current program "Seelenheil" now downloadable in Shop
*Serdar Somuncu is an actor and director
They prefer to push through their sometimes absurd goals rather than do justice to the will of the voters. No wonder, the Greens have recently become more pedagogical and opinionated, acting as if the voters were a bunch of idiots who didn't understand what environmental awareness and modernization mean. The Greens themselves have shaken the foundations of our economic policy through their amateurism: they have alienated large parts of industry with their restrictions and intimidation, and not least the disaster in energy policy has led to people being fed up with the Greens and wanting not just a "fresh start" but an honorable exit. The Greens too must at some point realise that elections are only ever a temporary mandate, and anyone who goes against a large majority of the people and, like Anton Hofreiter, demands ever more loudly and arrogantly that we become a party to the war in Ukraine by supplying more weapons must also live with the fact that people will no longer trust them and will send them where they belong, namely to the opposition benches.
For too long the Greens have benefited from the fact that the SPD and CDU have weakened and that there seemed to be no alternative to either side of them. But now that the AfD is making gigantic leaps towards a majority and the so-called parties of the democratic center are also taking up the AfD's issues, the Greens have no choice but to be the remnants of a system that no longer lives on the fact that there is nothing to decide and that big slogans and absurd ideas can be used to show perspectives whose future viability is questionable. Whether it was the Veggie Day that people once raved about, or the abolition of fossil fuels in favor of nuclear power, whether it is the miscarriage of the electric car or an overly liberal immigration policy that sees every migrant as an asset and ignores threats: the time has long been ripe for a change. And before you put power in the hands of those who want to seize it through populism and scaremongering, you should pull the ripcord and leave it to those who offer more sensible solutions. What that will be in the end is an open question.
The BSW is prepared to be such an alternative to the alternative, but the SPD and the CDU are also slowly and gradually learning what it means to meet the demands of the times instead of always relying on the tried and tested. This includes a modern immigration policy, as well as an energy policy that rewards companies rather than punishing them. Fair taxes are just as important as the courage to address taboos in domestic and security policy. And last but not least, a decision against involvement in wars, whether indirectly or directly, could lead to a left-wing ecological party in Germany regaining the credibility it recently lost with the Greens.
09/25/24
©Serdar Somuncu
Current program "Seelenheil" now downloadable in Shop
*Serdar Somuncu is an actor and director
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