Something was going on in Chieming the other day. The Greens wanted to campaign in the beer tent with the Federal Minister of Agriculture, Cem Özdemir, but the public overrated the word “fight”. There were constant whistling concerts and yelling orgies, without a large police presence the speakers would not have come into the tent at all.
Now Özdemir is from that wing of the Greens, whose radicalism is exhausted in the construction of cycle paths and who otherwise likes it more as an eco-FDP, but that obviously didn’t matter. On Bayerischer Rundfunk, a participant explained what he was talking about: “We never heard of us, and now let’s never talk!”
So this is what it looks like when a Bavarian takes back democracy: not being heard, not listening, not even being allowed to speak? It doesn’t seem to matter which (democratic) party it is. The main thing is that the idiots up there have been shown it again. Whether in Erding, whether in Chieming – politicians who don’t manage to ignite the fire themselves in time will be properly heated up.
There are now also Bavarian champions in the populism discipline. You almost have to be happy that Markus Söder of all people isn’t (yet) one of them, but who knows what’s to come? Maybe he’s still practicing when he’s ranting about the allegedly impending meat loaf and bratwurst bans and all that gender stuff. Maybe then the spasm with asylum tourism and the asylum industry and everything else that is supposed to be there that prevents Bavarians from enjoying their prosperity will come back.
This is then commonly called “taking the concerns of the citizens seriously” and it is said that “the elites” have to learn again to engage with the needs of “ordinary people”. That’s definitely not wrong. On the other hand, however, one also wishes that the policy that one has once chosen does not reflect the dull feelings nationwide, but sets clear limits precisely for those who are in fact the idiots. Perhaps many worries are unfounded or fundamentally wrong and no one likes to express them because it could cost votes? But it is also possible that this will soon be irrelevant – because then nobody will listen anyway and just whistles and yells.