{"id":2113,"date":"2021-02-03T15:36:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T14:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruebelbach.de\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2023-06-29T14:18:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T12:18:58","slug":"wohlfeiles-spd-bashing-versuch-einer-selbstkritik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruebelbach.de\/en\/wohlfeiles-spd-bashing-versuch-einer-selbstkritik\/","title":{"rendered":"Well-intentioned \ud83d\udfe5#SPD bashing? Attempt at #selfcriticism | \ud83e\udd41\u00a0#politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"\"The Gr\u00fcbelSound smash hit KATZE ERKENNEN<\/strong> probably still resonates where it was heard. So also me as the main responsible person. In the song lyrics<\/a><\/strong> it is not least the concluding lines, \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/nJ7RzGH9njE\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Then you do not go swimming
Without a balloon
And if it says SPD on it
who cares?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 which make me feel a certain melancholy. As Rock’n’Roll Commissioner<\/strong> under Federal President Walter Scheel (FDP)<\/strong>, I always maintained a friendly relationship with the coalition partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Federal President Walter Scheel (1919\u20132016)
CC BY-SA 3.0 Bundesarchiv<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My attempt at differentiation, however, remained somewhat half-hearted: In the shallows of the present website, I also gave out a text alternative against the big competitor on a trial basis at the point just mentioned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then probably not much helps except a lot of rubbish
and you put your hope in the CDU<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A certain relaxation sets in when I register the comparatively rude methods currently used by legal scholar Christoph M\u00f6llers in the magazine MERKUR to address the Social Democrats’ dwindling voter base:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In other words, it is not clear whether the decline of social democratic parties following certain pro-business reform policies was also caused by them.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.merkur-zeitschrift.de\/2021\/01\/21\/der-lange-abschied-der-spd-kleine-parteienkunde-i\/<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This connection will probably go down in history as the Wikihausen<\/a> trilemma<\/strong>: To assume that economic unfriendliness is a necessary consequence of political alternatives would be just as frivolous as abandoning social revolutionary pathos altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olaf Scholz’s observation will have to become more acute from this point of view.<\/p>\n