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FDP politicians against compulsory vaccination
The Kubicki Method: How to Successfully Confuse Liberalism and Recklessness
Wolfgang Kubicki, Deputy Federal Chairman of the FDP and Vice President of the Bundestag
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At least 20 FDP MPs have spoken out in a draft application against mandatory vaccination – including party vice Wolfgang Kubicki. In an interview he gave an impressive demonstration of how you can use arguments to dismantle yourself.
FDP veteran Wolfgang Kubicki has achieved mastery in making others shake their heads in 51 years of party membership. The fact that the now 69-year-old is offensive should be granted to him – after all, he obviously likes to do it with all his heart. In any case, the much-vaunted clear edge among politicians is a seductive fruit.
Whether Karl Lauterbach, Gregor Gysi or Joschka Fischer: The public likes to look after one or two quirks of politicians who swim against the current, who defend their opinion even against great resistance. It becomes difficult, however, when the clear edge mutates into clear nonsense. Kubicki has demonstrated this impressively these days.
The compulsory vaccination does not contradict liberal thinking
Most recently, the passionate knocker said he had gathered more than 30 FDP MPs around him. The goal of these knights of the Schwafelrunde: nip the corona vaccination in the bud. After all, it’s about nothing other than freedom! However, Kubicki put the Corone on top of it in an interview with “Zeit” published on Saturday. In it he gets lost in not only questionable, but also in many points completely negligent arguments. Kubicki confuses liberalism with recklessness.
The compulsory vaccination, which was excluded from politics not so long ago, contradicts his “whole view of man”. Kubicki sees “1G” as the best way – everyone “who comes to a hospital or a nursing home, for example” should be tested. Recently he himself voted for medical personnel to be vaccinated. But that’s enough, or more precisely, “the limit of what is reasonable”. Above all, this is consistently inconsistent.
By the way, it is now clear, continues Kubicki, that people who have been vaccinated are also contagious. A fine example of how you can lie with true words. To say it one last time, hopefully: Yes, people who have been vaccinated can also infect other people with Corona. But this is much less the case than with their defiant fellow citizens – quite apart from the fact that the vaccinated is more likely to survive the infection better than Kubicki a corked red wine.
“We all want to get out of the pandemic as quickly and easily as possible,” said Kubicki. He is right. However, a compulsory vaccination would be just that – not only the fastest, but above all the only way out of the Corona hamster wheel. Because everything else has already been tried. Whether compulsory vaccination is legal always depends on a crucial component: proportionality. The legislature must ask whether the duty of the state to protect its citizens outweighs the personal freedom of the individual. And no: that in no way contradicts liberal thinking. That is nothing more than the core task of every government: protecting the citizens.
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Kubicki is his own rhetorical risk group
When it comes to statements like: “I don’t want China to be our role model,” it seems as if Kubicki’s tongue has outgrown his mind. In one sentence, it seems as if he wants to assume that the Federal Republic of Germany is pulling a one-way ticket in the direction of AutoKrasien, only to then ponder: “We can change opinions after all”. But he himself would never base his “political decisions on opinion polls.” Yes what now?
Because the 69-year-old is clearly his very own rhetorical risk group, a comparison between the corona pandemic and the flu epidemic should of course not be missing. Because he saw in an article three years ago that a wave of winter flu could also overload the health system, the state should rather take care of increasing hospital capacities instead of tinkering with basic rights. He might as well say: Instead of putting a protective grille in front of the burning fireplace, we should rather take care of more firefighters. Surprise: It does not occur to Kubicki that one measure does not exclude the other.
In the end, it’s all just tiring. Because actually the FDP MP Konstantin Kuhle already in February 2020 in the Talk show “Chez Krömer” Everything about personalities Kubicki said: “You have to say, Wolfgang is slowly getting a little weird”.
source: “Time online“