Politicians on TV | Helpless ignorance with “Caren Miosga”

Really now? With Caren Miosga, Thomas de Maizière continues to dream of “his” party as a “people’s party”. Photo: IMAGO/HMB-Media The discussion on election Sunday in Saxony-Anhalt was again one of those elitist events that made many viewers angry. Pause or self-doubt? There was no trace of this in the ARD program “Caren Miosga”.

One, former CDU warrior and former minister Thomas de Maizière, actually continues to dream of "his" party as a "people's party." And this after a result in Saxony-Anhalt that shredded the CDU and reduced it by more than half. The other, the subtle Giovanni di Lorenzo, editor-in-chief of “Zeit,” uses the opportunity to advertise his own company and to talk at length about a story that “we are currently working on.” And since this concerns the topic of migration, the group apparently sees this as an invitation to once again sink their teeth into the topic of right-wing extremists for several minutes.

The voice from the ivory tower is represented by political scientist Christian Stecker, who takes off to a heights between “ethnopluralistic” and “ethnocultural” and calls for “acceptance of pluralism”. “Ethnopluralism” is a term of the new right. Nobody in the group explains this, not even the moderator Caren Miosga.

Only the journalist Vera Wolfskämpf from the editorial network Germany dares to touch on the social question. As a regional correspondent in Magdeburg, she was the only one in the group with regional knowledge. She spoke to (potential) AfD voters. What did she hear there? Complaints about low pensions, little wealth, the upheavals after 1989/90 and the feeling that you have little yourself while others get more of the “social system cake”. But something like that is mutually agreed not to be taken up in this round.

Search the Internet and/or use the AI ​​to find the (estimated) annual fees of the participants in this round. One thing is clear: None of these highly paid people have any idea what it means to get by on 700 euros (or even less) a month. But if, on one of the days before the election, you see on television the furrowed face of a passer-by in Saxony-Anhalt who has to get by on 800 euros a month and says with a believing, desperate look that he is voting for the AfD, the party that will intensify the class struggle, then that is an indictment of all democratic parties that are indirectly paving the way into government for the right-wing extremist AfD in Saxony-Anhalt.

None of these highly paid people have any idea what it means to get by on 700 euros (or even less) a month.

Above all, questions arise for the Social Democrats, who were pleased to have reached over five percent, and for the Left Party, which slipped below ten percent for the first time in Saxony-Anhalt. Who, if not these two parties, can make social justice the dominant issue? They should be able to reach masses of voters who long for more justice in this republic - in theory. And the Greens? If you look at how they celebrate their modest election success at party headquarters, you get an idea of ​​what makes them tick. They stay in the game, their positions are secured.

The federal CDU, however, continues to fight undauntedly to forcefully widen the gap between rich and poor and to give further tax gifts to the wealthy. Why is it that right-wing extremists, who will drastically intensify the class struggle from above, are considered by their voters to have a high level of “social skills”? This is a disgrace for all other parties. They no longer reach the impoverished and neglected. And also not the people “who see themselves as workers,” as Jörg Schönenborn put it on ARD – and showed that 60 percent of them voted for the AfD.

This party has more than doubled its share of the vote, while that of the CDU has been more than halved. It wasn't the voter turnout; at 77.8 percent, it was higher than ever in recent memory. This is democracy – still. Because this democracy will go down the drain as long as the leading personnel of the democratic parties are more interested in themselves than in questions of justice.

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