The truth: hatred of complaining Germans

After the Pisa shock, the constantly rising fuel prices, the election results in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania plus the Stuttgart main station, which was apparently planned to be far too small, Germany is facing the next bad news: the Germans are becoming more and more unpopular! Not just outside the German borders of 1989, but especially within them. This was the result of a current representative survey by the opinion research institute Insult among German state and federal politicians.

The German people only achieve a popularity rating of just under 10 percent with the federal government, which is the lowest point since the first election to the Bundestag in 1949. At 7 percent, the Chancellor's popularity is even lower than this value. No German chancellor has ever disliked his people as much as Friedrich Merz. Only one Reich Chancellor was more dissatisfied with his people - so much so that he passed away shortly before the end of the war out of disappointment with the Germans. Would this also be conceivable today?

“That is of course not the way to deal with your own government in a democracy,” says political scientist Kurt-Horst Kienzle, who conducted and evaluated the survey on behalf of Bundestag President Julia Klöckner (CDU).

The reasons for the dissatisfaction are varied. Politicians from the CDU/CSU primarily criticize the Germans' lack of willingness to perform. “One half of working Germans are constantly sick, the other half is lazy and the third is constantly complaining and wants more money,” says Kienzle.

FDP politicians, on the other hand, see the Germans as ungrateful despite the constant wage increases extorted through strikes. "The Germans have lost solidarity with the richest one percent of the population - the rich. Nobody wants to take this minority into account anymore," points out Kienzle.

A lack of solidarity is also the main reason for popular discontent among the Social Democrats. “How can you have a decent class struggle if your own people don’t want to take part?” You hear something similar from the camps of the Left and the Greens. "The only thing Germans are really interested in," Kienzle evaluates the survey data, "is climate change. Germans are working on it almost around the clock: eating meat, driving a car, throwing away trash. Climate change is the only change that Germans really want."

Another reason for the unpopularity of Germans is their origins, which AfD politicians in particular criticize. “And that they are constantly coming up with new genders,” an AfD politician noted in the comments section of his questionnaire. "They hate everything too. Especially us politicians."

The hatred is apparently mutual. Behind closed doors, one or two politicians in the corridors of the Bundestag admit that they deeply hate the German people. "Well, above all, the people. A people in itself is a beautiful thing when they cheer you on and do what you tell them. But I often wake up in the morning and immediately think: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetingedededed by these people. And they are totally ungrateful anyway."

“And stupid too,” adds an education minister who did not want to be named. "They also seem to think it's great, they're so stupid that they pass it on to their children, especially parents. I was still studying back then and I'm smart, which you can tell by the long sentences I say. But I can't deal with stupid people."

Many politicians are now thinking about quitting politics. "If this continues," says a senior chancellor who did not want to be identified, "then I will resign and live on my pension for the remaining years. Maybe I will write a book or count the coins in my money bank."

Other politicians think similarly. “Power becomes ridiculous when you are no longer loved,” says a CSU MP who wants to resign and give away his parliamentary seat.

How should things continue with so much popular discontent? The political scientist Kurt-Horst Kienzle warns urgently: "In a few years it could happen that no party is standing for elections anymore, that no politician is running anymore. Who should be elected then? Then the people will probably have to govern themselves."

It shouldn't come to that! The German people are faced with a difficult task; they must regain the trust of their politicians in the next few years.