On the way from the draft to the approved program, the party’s own nobility of civil servants and the experts from the commissions apparently slipped so brutally that the text has increased by more than 42 percent: from 48,516 to 69,053 words. The motto “Germany. Everything is included.” can be illustrated in a really terrifying way. No wonder that the final editorial at the Greens took so long. Only the election manifesto of the left is (just) longer. Impotence as a type of text. Text obesity cannot be remedied by a grain cure. The lean short version of six pages would have been enough for the Greens and would certainly have been more winning. Three words in particular have increased in the finished program: wanting, people and having to.