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They’re simply not intelligent enough, they don’t know any better – Demonstration in Naumburg on August 17, 2025On August 17, 2025, numerous citizens gathered in Naumburg under the slogan “Stand Up” to protest against war and to take a stand for peace. 
Speakers like former Bundestag member Robert Farle made it clear how much the Ukraine conflict and Berlin politics are already burdening life here locally – whether in people’s wallets, in businesses, or in the already scarce budgets of the city and the district. All the more striking, then, that precisely those politicians who the day before at the CSD proclaimed in lofty speeches the freedom of lifestyle suddenly found no voice. Neither District Administrator Götz Ulrich nor Mayor Armin Müller considered it necessary to stand alongside their citizens for peace. Whoever hands out rainbow pathos on Saturday but ignores the existential concerns of their region on Sunday shows above all one thing: where their real priorities lie. Utopia TV was live on site and spoke with some participants. Among them was Hardy: Question (Sandra Gabriel): How did you like Robert Farle’s speech? Answer (Hardy): I thought it was very much to the point, no empty talk. Common sense has been Germany’s best export product in recent years. There are still remnants of it in the country – that’s very good to know. So there are still people who can add one and one together. And what I really despise is when people apply double standards, this framing that’s happening today: doing the opposite of what is proclaimed, and labeling those who actually act as it was once understood. I find that insulting to my intelligence. I find it really very, very bad that we live in a time in which – as Norbert Bolz said – those who can talk have the qualifications to make a political career, while credibility and authenticity no longer matter. In the past, you at least had the feeling that politicians were working for the good of the people, for which they were elected. Today, by contrast, only atrocities or terrible things are announced that the people supposedly have to endure – because of the climate, world peace, or whatever. But the real problems of the people, the citizens, the state of traffic, roads, infrastructure, businesses, the economy… how many skilled workers leave Germany every year – that plays less and less of a role. That ought to make us angry. If I were a politician, that would make me very, very thoughtful and angry. Question (Sandra Gabriel): Yes, how do you explain that to yourself? I mean, the people up there aren’t all stupid. Many are highly educated, and they see the development – how everything here is being run into the ground, the deindustrialization, the fact that the middle class is really running on fumes, so to speak, and that more and more people are emigrating because of the situation, because they maybe no longer feel heard and represented. Answer (Hardy): My first thought was: Okay, they’re simply not intelligent enough, they don’t know any better. But now I know that ministers, for example, have a huge staff of employees, partly taken over from their predecessors, partly replaced. I’ve now reached the point where I say: They know better, but they don’t do it. And when you reach the point of saying they know better – and at least have the chance of being told by their experts what would be better – and they still don’t do it, then only one thought really comes to mind: There must be a plan behind it. So what? Today that’s slandered as conspiracy theory, but if someone does something that is demonstrably nonsensical, that has nothing to do with common sense, and they still do it – what else could be the reason? I simply refuse to believe that there are so many unintelligent people who don’t care where this country is heading. Question (Sandra Gabriel): It’s also a fact that some former high-ranking officials or probably also future ones were, for example, with the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum or the European Young Leaders – such as Jens Spahn, but also Annalena Baerbock, who went straight to America after citizens said they didn’t want the Greens anymore. Habeck has also gone to America now. So those who couldn’t really do much with Germany caused a lot of destruction here, so to speak, and have now gone to America. So it’s not so far-fetched that they want to make a career there… Answer (Hardy): But about those people I’ll say nothing. We now live in Germany in a country where you have to think about every word, because it might be the wrong one and you could be punished for it. Is it bad that it’s like that? Yes. I grew up in the GDR and learned not to always say exactly what I thought. And I must sadly say, we’re now in a situation where every word matters. Every word can be wrong. I’m so dismayed that I’ll eventually belong to the silent majority. Question (Sandra Gabriel): Do you find the situation now worse than in the GDR? In the GDR you knew what you were allowed to say and what not, and you also knew about the consequences. Answer (Hardy): You can’t compare that. It’s not worse or less bad – it’s different. It’s more professional. I notice, when I hear surveys, that the share of people who no longer dare to say what they think is getting bigger and bigger. That makes me incredibly sad. I left for the West in the 1980s because I didn’t want to have my words and thoughts forbidden. And now we’re again at the point where we’re wondering: What am I still allowed to say, what am I even allowed to think? Do I catch myself thinking something wrong? And then I ask myself: How do I deal with it? Certain things I simply mustn’t think anymore. I’ve caught myself a few times – on X or elsewhere – wanting to comment on something and then thinking: Better not. I don’t say anything anymore on certain things, because it could be punishable. Maybe it’s even punishable to say that it could be punishable. We’ve now arrived at Loriot, or at cabaret artists who tried to portray something schizophrenic, something that’s hard to grasp rationally, in a humorous way. And I’d better stay silent. Question (Sandra Gabriel): Do you think the situation might change if the “firewall” falls and a truly conservative government leads the country? Answer (Hardy): I’d better stay silent. Question (Sandra Gabriel): Would you like to give our viewers a final message? Answer (Hardy): Yes, don’t lose your good mood. Someone once said: At some point there’s light at the end of the tunnel – and it doesn’t necessarily have to be the oncoming ICE train. There really are people, and I admire them, who haven’t lost their optimism. Maybe you can keep it, too. Sandra Gabriel: Wonderful. Many thanks for your time and your words. Thank you very much. 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