Don’t play with the grubby kids – issue 259

By Johanna Henkel-Waidhofer

All over the country, Winfried Kretschmann is praised as an antidote to the rampant disenchantment with politics. But it hardly helps him and his party: CDU and FDP unpack their age-old resentments against the Greens and fall into total refusal.

The sky over Ba-Wü. Caricature: Oliver Stenzel

Most of those who put their own feelings and the pursuit of power above everything probably do not even know who Franz Josef Degenhardt was. The songwriter and RAF defender, who died in 2012, mocked in his ballad "game not with the grubby children" bourgeois narrow-mindedness and convulsive adherence to traditional social images. The lively song dates from the 1960s and is again terrifyingly up-to-date. Ironically, those forces who value their services to the country refuse to serve the community because their coalition of wishes has no majority and they pursue their own interests.

Guido Wolf feels called to higher things as a junior partner of the Greens. Photos: Joachim E. Röttgers

Above all, the CDU district association Stuttgart. He wants a membership decision before coalition negotiations begin with the party, which won all direct mandates in the region and reduced the blacks in the state capital to just 22 percent. The Stuttgart want to destroy any chance of green-black. "Because there is absolutely no understanding at the base of making common cause with yesterday’s opponents", someone says. And because it is with the CDU "no figure with radiance" which the members of "kiwi" could convince. The nickname for the green-black partnership, which has so far been unique in Germany, bites many Unionists: In the fruit, they say, there are only a few black seeds.

The voters are sold for being stupid

This mindset is bad enough. Even worse, however, is that voters should be sold twice for stupid. Suddenly everyone is talking about content by which everything can now be measured, say Guido Wolf and Hans-Ulrich Rülke, the top candidates from the CDU and FDP, in unison. The black and yellow camp simply does not want to accept the fact that this election result must be interpreted as a mandate to the incumbent prime minister to form a government. The liberals in particular put the strange reasoning over their no that there are hardly any overlaps with the Greens.

Which is not true. Of course, it could be explored and tested, the FDP could insist on positions, drop others, compromise, exclude stumbling blocks – in short: negotiating as it would without hesitation with the CDU would have won on Sunday. But she doesn’t want to. Rülke’s liberals don’t want to play with the grubby children, which in their eyes are still not socially acceptable, although they have long since taken off birch-floor sandals, knitted sweaters and a revolutionary attitude.

Big egos can look very bad. Hans-Ulrich Rülke too.

All sayings from better days no longer count. Not even the one that Erwin Teufel has preached countless times that first the country, then the party and finally the person must come. Hans-Dietrich Genscher’s winged word that if you really want something, you will find a way, "the others find an excuse", has also disappeared from memory. Instead, the FDP is riding on your request for one "policy change" around – and spends as adherence to principles, which looks like megalomania at eight percent. Especially since the supposedly so large differences in content between the FDP and the Greens turn out to be a pretext, an excuse. Coalition-willing partners with skill and creativity have had to jump across completely different gaps in the German party democracy.

FDP-Rülke has already considered new elections

The FDP does not even seriously want to sound out the opportunities for cooperation. "It’s strange", said Juso chairman Leon Hahn, "first formulate content-related requirements for a possible traffic light coalition and then exclude them without substantive reasons." Even weeks before the election, Rülke had been thinking aloud about new elections. And the CDU – contrary to the assumption that everything runs towards this constellation by itself – faces an ordeal because green-black is a fat toad, especially for young and old. The resistance is wide. The Presidium of the state association could only with difficulty be prevented from excluding all talks with the Prime Minister on the evening of the election.

After his election to the parliamentary group with 34 out of 42 votes, Wolf spoke bravely of green-black on Tuesday afternoon as a possible option. Meanwhile, inside the boardroom, MPs smirked: That would not happen in life.

This does not only serve (pre-) judgments about a scrapped political caste, which is primarily about its own advantages and less about what is needed for the community. All knowledge about voter movements and moods in Baden-Württemberg is also ignored. "Despite my modesty, my interpretation of the choice leaves nothing else than that of the population me wants to continue as prime minister", Kretschmann had said and that he wanted to talk to all democratic parties. According to the winner of the election at the MP’s house, he couldn’t understand why "now trenches are dug instead of looking at how we can get together".

The role of the tongue on the scales is accordingly overstaffed in the bad game: The FDP spreads that the CDU only had to negotiate with the SPD about a black-red-yellow Germany coalition until they were pushed by their notorious for his sneaking course Chairman Sigmar Gabriel, is urged to. With the state-supporting argument that someone has to rule the country after all. The CDU, in turn, speculates about how the FDP will ultimately fall over and help Kretschmann win a majority, based on threats from the Internet and in the offices that numerous members will quit immediately, their party would actually rule with the Greens.

It’s not about the country, it’s about the ego

These days, after the election, the impression arises that it is less a question of majorities for a functioning government and more of an afterthought to spoil the Greens’ victory. Instead of what the Liberals had promised full-bodied through the election poster, "to clear up the mess", add more. The Social Democrats, on the other hand, in 1992, despite their own disappointed hopes of being the prime minister with Dieter Spöri, immediately accepted their duties when the right-wing Republicans entered the state parliament. The commoners are less patriotic today. "We are now driving them ahead of us", betrayed a young unionist on Monday, and then it will show, "who has the better nerves".

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