CDU and fascism: Through the middle against the wall

I'm doing well. In any case, I'm better off than ever in my life, materially speaking. The EC machine spits out notes when I want them. And unless the past catches up with me in the form of post-traumatic disorder, I put my credit card on the reader in the supermarket without a second thought.

Maybe it's this momentary security that makes me worry more about the future than the present. Rather not my personal future, nor the future of humanity. The future of humanity is too abstract for me.

But if my children asked me - which, strangely enough, they don't do at all - except for the youngest one - what I imagine the near future to be like, then I would be at a loss with the answer. I would probably say what scares me the most personally. This is a victory for the mafia-fascist Putin regime in the war against Ukraine; and that is the fascism allied with this regime in Germany - whether it abbreviates itself as BSW or AfD -, in Europe and in the USA.

Probably because I've been doing well for a while, from a class standpoint, for me the answer to the fascist threat lies in the middle. If in another historical and personal situation I was in favor of driving forward the real division of society, now I have a longing for gathering, for pooling forces.

For example, when I look at what the CDU state leader and his party's top candidate in the election for the Berlin House of Representatives, Stefan Evers, had to say about the red-green-red exploratory paper, I feel a little sick.

There is not a hint of a positive counter-proposal to the paper and project, which can certainly be criticized with good arguments, there is only stupid defiance and dull fear-mongering. The fact that this CDU has withdrawn from a potential center disturbs me just as much as the radicalization of the FDP, whose resulting disappearance would of course have made me very happy in the past.

If you have no answers to the questions of the time, if you don't want to change anything, if you don't practice self-criticism, if you only expect sacrifices from others, if you are not prepared to contribute even the slightest, if you constantly believe yourself to be deceptively poor, then you want society to hit the wall.

The idea might then be to collect the rubble and build your own tower out of it. Of course someone has to protect it. Then we arrived at fascism, which, as I understand it, the Big Tech bros are also striving for.

And it's clear that an alliance of supermen and brown garden gnomes no longer needs a middle ground. This alliance does not need a critical culture or empathy. It is the dictatorship of the strong with the eternal half-strongs, in which those who still rely on categories such as conscience, morality, religious-humanistic values ​​and, last but not least, beauty are considered “self-proclaimed senior teachers and elite who want to spoil all our fun,” as the psychologist Klaus Ottomeyer once put it in the taz. And should there ever be an open ethical question, the AI ​​provides answers that are appropriate for the government.

My four-year-old son is currently concerned with dying. And I can give him the answer with a clear conscience that dying is part of life, but it doesn't have to worry him too much. It will be difficult if he asks me about life.