…in the meantime? Hessen, the state that brought me up but of which I am no longer a citizen, voted five parties into parliament and there seems to be no coalition forming. That’s what happens when everyone makes definite promises of NOT cooperating with this and this and that party BEFORE the actual election. I am especially happy about Roland Koch and his infamous Christian Democratic Party having lost a great deal of popularity because the voters eventually saw through his polemic xenophobia-based strategy. On the other hand I am especially impressed by the learning resistance of the Social Democratic Party. They have lost millions of members and voters since Gerhard Schröder turned them into the (as I refer to them) Unsocial Democrats. Now they’ve fielded Andrea Ypsilanti, a rather leftist candidate, and gained back some of these losses, at least in one state. But instead of learning from this, redeveloping their social profile and cooperating with the Leftist Party (basically socialists) they denied any cooperation with these fellas even before the election. The Liberal Party (not to be confused with neither the American nor the Australian meaning of “liberal” and best described as market economy preachers), scoring only a few percent of the votes, refuses to cooperate with three of the four other parties – who the fuck do these guys think they are? They’ve always been a laugh but now they’ve reached the top! The fact that I, a professional environmentalist, haven’t been talking about the Greens so far shows how meaningless they are. Yes, I think they have the most competent people for environmental problems, but they are so unsocial I start thinking of them as Eco-Liberals. Market Economy is not going to solve this world’s problems, my friends.
You see, I’m back now, with heart and soul, always happy to have an argument about politics. Looking forward to see my friends now. My mates from Stuttgart had prepared a bunch of CDs for me before I left and unfortunately I was unable to take them with me. Since I arrived these are all I’ve listened to and with many songs bearing a connection to our activities they generated a feeling of being at home. Much appreciated.
