The older you get, the more you appreciate a vibrant democracy. Good: maybe not when you first get the election notification for the senior citizens’ advisory board, after all you were only 35 yesterday. But that’s general. And especially in Bavaria you have a firm anchor against all the imponderables that haunt other areas: the CSU. The last people who knew a government in this country in which the CSU was not involved are slowly dying out. You can confirm one thing: basically nothing changes.
It’s just all divided up a bit differently over the decades. What the CSU lacks in percentages today is now being contributed by a sub-CSU called Freie Wahler. They elect their chairman unanimously in a way that has never happened before, even in the CSU. And he makes an effort to deliver the desired results. They are: The machine ring has to work, and someone has to tell “the same monkeys” (Lion Feuchtwanger) and the other left-green weirdos what you really think of them. The actual CSU doesn’t get it that way anymore. Except perhaps in Bamberg, where a CSU local branch is currently scuffling against a new immigration law, transsexuals and women in politics because it expresses “well-founded concerns from our midst”. Somebody says what people think. Although “thinking” is the wrong term, “feeling dull” would probably be the right one. Incidentally, can it also be that “the people” are sometimes just a terrible rabble? And do you really want someone to represent you?
With the CSU it will be difficult, it seems. In any case, there are no longer any “justified concerns” about gay MPs in their own ranks. Maybe you just didn’t suspect anything at the constellation meeting. And now that’s the way it is. It is all the more important to hold on to other achievements. Two examples: Anyone under 40 should not become prime minister, but should be ashamed that she is so young, and a five percent hurdle for the federal government has no place in Bavaria. Incidentally, a kind of hereditary democracy would be even better: the party that has always been elected should also move directly into the Bundestag in the future. A few hundred votes or not doesn’t matter that much. Because experience teaches us: In Bavaria everything stays the same as always.