Politics once included the art of getting people carried away, convincing them and feeling responsible – Helmut Schmidt was able to do that. Today politics seems to have fallen on the lips. In times of crisis, it does not clarify, but steals from its jurisdiction.
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Jörg Häntzschel
In Frank Capra’s film “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”, an idealistic boy scout becomes a senator and shakes the Washington establishment up with a brilliant 24-hour speech. That has to be the dream with which every career as a politician begins, that’s how it was always imagined.