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You Won't Get My Vote! - Why I Can't Vote for CDU, SPD, FDP, Greens, Left Party etc., Even LocallyCounty council, city and municipal council, and EU elections are coming up. Many people have likely already made their decision. Some may still be undecided. Should you vote? Yes, absolutely! At the moment, citizens have very little democratic influence beyond that. Demonstrations, petitions, and protests – like many other things – are simply ignored. Whom should you vote for? Everyone must decide that for themselves. Personally, however, I cannot give my vote to those who have sat on county councils, city and municipal councils, or in the EU Parliament in recent years. I also can't give my vote to anyone who is a member of the CDU, SPD, FDP, the Greens, or the Left Party. I simply cannot understand how anyone can still, in good conscience, be a member of these parties. Many of the local politicians here work on a voluntary basis. Political work at the regional level is voluntary. You don't earn money from it. Voluntary work in associations and similar is right and important – no question. And for that, I do have respect. But I have to say: you failed when it was crucial and absolutely necessary to look beyond the horizon. I'm talking about the pandemic years – which many would like to consider "over and done with." But it’s not that simple. Because if you look away when fundamental rights are restricted purely for political reasons, when people – children, the elderly – were forced into masks, isolation, and segregation, then you’ll look away again next time. At least, that's my assumption. With every court-released document, it becomes more evident that the "containment measures" – as former Chancellor Merkel herself said – were purely political decisions. It’s now clear that their goals included testing how far politicians could go, how easily citizens could be restricted, and how strongly people could be coerced into vaccination. This is confirmed by official documents. For example, the pace of vaccination was to be increased because too many doses had been ordered. I said back then: “The stuff was ordered and now has to go into people!” For me, it was obvious. That, and more, has now been confirmed. I missed the protest from you local politicians. I still miss the outcry. I miss the urge to uncover the truth. I miss demands for consequences for those responsible. I miss the call for rehabilitation and reparations for those who were clearly fined, ostracized, and defamed unjustly. I miss YOU reaching out to those who were right back then. Even your club work was restricted. Your lives were restricted. Some of you or your family members may have had problems due to those wonder-drugs. I call these substances wonder-drugs because it was always clear to me that many would still "wonder" what kind of substances these were. Every day it becomes clearer: the measures lacked a factual basis. Children and schools were not pandemic drivers. School closures had zero effect – the mask mania, mask fetishism was nonsense. The wonder-drugs had side effects, but no protective effect. This is now confirmed by RKI protocols and other documents. The politicians at the top knew that. They continue trying to cover it up, sweep it under the rug. They lied to you, and they’re still lying. They’re still playing you for fools. The so-called "conspiracy theorists" and lateral thinkers knew and still know this. And you could have known. You should have known. Maybe some of you even did know, suspected, or sensed it. But you stayed quiet. You went along with the nonsense – at least officially. And you’re still staying quiet. I cannot understand why there is no outcry from you when documents in this supposedly great democracy – where transparency is supposed to be so important – have to be released only through lawsuits. Don’t you care that the politicians up top are stringing *you* along and leading you by the nose into vaccination centers (I don’t know how to put it more mildly)? Don’t you care that the state and county regulations had no medical basis? How can you still look those in the eye who imposed all of this on you and, as was said at the Hohenmölsen citizen dialogue, still want to work together with them? Do you really just shrug your shoulders at all this injustice and say, “Oh well”? I must assume that when the next big scare is driven through the village, you’ll once again stay quiet. I suspect the climate issue will be exaggerated next. The media is already reporting one temperature record after another. This was already attempted last year, but the weather didn’t cooperate. If this summer is not rainy, you’ll start discussing what measures must be taken when incidences – oops, I mean temperatures – of 30, 35 degrees Celsius are reached. Heat protection plans, heat shelters, heat death checks, heat lockdowns. And again, you won’t question whether temperatures over 30, 35, or 40 degrees might also be normal. Or maybe you will, but you’ll go along with it again. That’s what I assume. I always like to ask in these discussions whether human life is possible near the equator. Or whether people in vacation spots like Egypt, Dubai, Maldives can survive. You know the answer. Of course it’s not a problem. And yet, you’ll implement the orders from above. You’ll probably argue that laws and regulations must be followed. But maybe the Ukraine war will escalate further. The signs are unmistakable. That would require maximum resistance. Do you have the courage for that? Unfortunately, I haven’t seen it yet. On the many demonstrations since 2020 – also for peace – you were somehow absent. Why? Are all those “peace nuts” too far-right for you, or is the psychological/cognitive warfare simply working that well on you? Will you stay quiet when Zelensky demands the return of all able-bodied Ukrainian men because it’s now written in a law or regulation? I want local politicians who have courage! Who have the courage to say no and always ask questions. I want politicians who don’t just shrug and comply with laws and regulations when they are obviously nonsense, but who push to change or abolish such laws. Who persistently pressure lawmakers to make such changes. Laws and regulations are not set in stone. The pandemic years showed everyone how fast laws can be changed. Bundestag, Bundesrat, and Federal President in one day – bam – law changed. It’s possible when there is political will. I want politicians who don’t see themselves as subordinates of mayors, district administrators, state or federal governments. I want regional politicians who speak up clearly whenever necessary. And it’s probably almost always necessary. Of course, cooperation is possible – in the interest of the citizens. But if it goes against the will and benefit of the people, I want to see protest from you – public, loud, and clear. Frank Weidauer said during the citizen dialogue in Hohenmölsen: “I don’t say anything anymore about what comes from Magdeburg.” It’s quite possible that some of you now say: “Well, we want something from those at the top.” Yes, you do – you want them to do their jobs in the interest of the citizens! But they want even more from you. They want you to stop criticizing and exposing grievances. If you had used your leverage consistently, the world, Germany, and local communities would look very different today. Can you even shape policy?You’ve all written on your posters that you want to shape things. But can you even do that? Budgets are usually empty. Jan Förster said at the above-mentioned citizen meeting, paraphrased: “The blanket is way too short.” But what are you doing? Are you putting pressure on the state and federal government to leave more money in the municipalities, so there’s room to shape anything at all? Or are you mostly busy figuring out how to apply for grants for projects that you may not even have the funds to co-finance? When you finally get a grant after great bureaucratic effort, you thank those who made the laws in such a way that municipalities have become permanent beggars – dependent on the goodwill of higher-level politics. That can’t be it, in my opinion. Do you really want to shape, or are you content managing scarcity?You know the situation. You’ve known for a long time. That was also clear to hear in Hohenmölsen. But I don’t see you taking the necessary steps or having the courage to push for changes in the legal foundations so that you can actually shape policy. What do you have to lose? Are you too caught up in party structures, afraid to offend, or bound by dependencies? That prevents you from shaping anything and is bad for the people you want to be elected by. Money is not the issue. When politics wants to, hundreds of millions or billions appear overnight. Just not for the municipalities. Strange, isn’t it? No, it’s not strange. It’s intentional. Municipalities are not supposed to be independent. They’re supposed to be financially dependent. They’re supposed to apply for grants for everything – grants that are only easy to get when municipalities behave as expected and propose projects that fit the political agenda at the top. And that brings me back to questioning. I want local politicians who look beyond the edge of their municipalities and counties and recognize that every euro spent on weird, pointless, or purely ideological projects elsewhere in the world is a euro you don’t get to use locally. Every euro currently going into the Ukraine war – a war that could have ended in April 2022 – is missing here. Every euro declared as “special funds” (i.e., loans) is missing twice – because it still has to be earned by citizens. Why is that? Because the politicians up there are not really interested in citizens at the local level. If they were, the Ukraine war would not exist. It could have been prevented. That was possible. But it wasn’t desired. The war could be ended anytime. But that’s not wanted either. To them, avoiding loss of face is more important than human lives. Politics up there doesn’t act in the interest of the people. And you remain silent. Johannes Rohr called on citizens at the end of the Hohenmölsen dialogue to go vote, saying that “the citizen is sovereign.” That surprised me. Two, three, four years ago, he might have been summoned for statements like that and suspected of being a Reichsbürger. “The citizen is sovereign” – these so-called lateral thinkers have been saying that since 2020. They were defamed, discriminated against, ostracized, and labeled as right-wing for this and for questioning, protesting, and criticizing. Now the "democrats" are suddenly rediscovering that language for themselves. Great! But also, somehow... too late. That’s why I give my vote to those who are ahead – in thinking, yes, even in lateral thinking – by four years or more. Those who question, who look beyond their community, who see the big picture. Those who want to fundamentally change things so that not only citizens but also municipalities can act more sovereignly. These changes need to be made in legislation. The pressure to make this happen must come from below. Without pressure, nothing will change. But you don’t apply pressure! At least I can’t see it. You’re not out on the streets, at the demonstrations, when it’s exactly about that. I’ll vote for those who support grassroots democracy, so that citizens are always involved in shaping policy. Those who have shown courage for years, standing up to the “powerful” despite hostility and repression – to limit their power and ensure it truly lies in the hands of the people. That’s where it belongs. Maybe in a few years, you’ll realize that too. But I want change now. PS to the non-voters:You make up about 30% of eligible voters. You are the sovereign, too. If you go for a walk on June 9, 2024, and it takes you to the polling station, you could play a decisive role in bringing about political change. You just have to want it. Author: AI-Translation - Michael Thurm | vor dem 01.07.2024 |
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