‘Chance‘ Magoo & The Arsonists!
What’s the matter with Germany’s Chancellor?
– #A Stint on the creeping political normalcy[1] of Thuringian fine print –
CHORUS LEADER: He who, in order to know / What danger threatens, reads papers / Each day at breakfast indignant / Over some distant disaster / Each day given explanations / That spare him the need to think / Each day informed of what happened the day before / He finds it hard to perceive what is happening now / Beneath his own roof – CHORUS: Unpublished! (Max Frisch, The Arsonists)
1RST BONE TO PICK WITH MAGOO | F#CKIN' RESULTS, FAST!
Who in the world ... sorry ... who the hell, should be worrying about a mousy state named Thuringia[2], embedded in a small country called Germany[3]; in a sense, fitting Marshall's Plan ... sorry ... the Marshall Plan's[4] idea of Allemagne’s Post-WW II Destiny, sketched on Kilroy's[5] All American Napkin?
Who cares about Germany’s pivotal role[6] in international Politics, Economics, Finance and Monetary Policies?
At least ‘Chance‘ Magoo should!
The Big Issues[7] seem to have distracted his attention from pivotal Domestic Concerns having remained pretty much in the Dark of his Socio-Sensory Blind Spots. More or less, ‘Chance‘ Magoo seems to have proven pretty much at odds with his Party's Historical[8] Standing and Basic Programme[9].
Moreover, ‘Chance‘ Magoo has lacked awareness of Psycho-Socio Factors impacting Societal Mindset, having accumulated and clotted to an Aggregation of Political Stuff much harder than Concrete, i.e. factual evidence of doubtful Governmental Successes.
Well y’know ‘Chance‘, put simply as follows, Governing a Country and its People isn‘t just about what Folks’ve been (not) knowing or (not) thinking about certain Kinds of Governmental Action having been directed at an Abstract called Germany's Situation – having taken effect or not.
It's about the Millions of People‘s feelings of desperation, for the radical Changes to and in their respective lives seem to have just blown too many Folks‘ Minds.
Do they (have to) care about who's to be blamed?! No, for in a CEO's Fashion, they just want f#ckin' results, fast!
2ND BONE TO PICK WITH MAGOO | I’LL SUR(E)LY HANDLE IT!
‘Chance‘ Magoo[10] formerly know as ... And The Winner Is[11] Olaf Scholz[12] has turned into a live Cartoon Character having blinked[13] at the most recent Series of Discomforting Domestic Political Realities on surging Right-Wing Populism[14], having spread from Thuringia’s[15] Alternative for Germany[16] in particular. Noteworthy case in point relating to the issue: Geert Wilders‘[17] Blocking Minority[18].
‘Chance‘ Magoo‘s old but in outstanding Shape, however cannot see very well. An eye patch makes the Whole Thing even more difficult. Hence, he prefers talking to or about Objects, unwittingly winding up in dangerous Situations. Despite a surging Socio-Political Sentiment having denied his self-acclaimed Achievements, ‘Chance‘ Magoo never stops believing[19] things eventually fell into place as time went by.
3RD BONE TO PICK WITH MAGOO | BACK TO THE 70S!
Unfortunately, ‘Chance‘ Magoo has shared no significant Denominator of a Basic Understanding with his Political Competitors and vice versa, that could’ve solidified Governmental Action and Perspective to the benefit of the German Population or could’ve eased their viral Anxiety about the Future and Existential Dread.
Reviewing German history dating back to the 70s, ‘Chance‘ Magoo‘s Father Figure and Paragon Helmut Schmidt[20] shared the Third Reich’s[21] Doom and WW II Experience[22] with his political Contemporaries, despite having positioned themselves at Opposite Sides of the Political Camp.
In lockstep, the Oil Crisis[23] and the RAF’s[24] surging Reign of Terror had led to the Greatest Crisis in German Post-War History. Accordingly, Chancellor Schmidt took the Lead in forming and heading a permanent Crisis Team encouraging his political Opponents to get involved.
What a unique Achievement of his that was, especially recalling the Calibre of this Generation of Politician‘s Standing.
This time is different![25] No, it ain’t!
Considering the global consequences of the Russo-Ukrainian War[26], as much as the international Migration Crisis[27] having consistently correlated to Global Conflicts[28], it’s quite surprising, why the German Government hasn’t been able or willing to establish a Non-Partisan Consolidation of Political Power.
This could’ve prevented the Population from experiencing a different Kind of On-Going Terror. Instead, German Angst has been gradually fuelling Right-Wing Populism and Extremism over the past couple of years.
4TH BONE TO PICK WITH MAGOO | DOOMED DEMENTORS!
Since their inception, the Alternative for Germany has proven a Trojan[29] having infiltrated the German Population's Sentiment with rotten values at odds with democratic Virtues.
Their political carthorse's Camouflage of Economic and Social Dilettantism bears those National Socialist Dementors[30] sucking Democracy dry of its Foundations of Humanity in every sense, while implicitly spreading contagious Fantasies of Capitalist, Anti-Social Bias and Racist Supremity.
In the Voters' Interests, the Thuringian Government and Opposition should've been equally interested in pursuing a Motion of no Confidence[31] for different reasons. An Opposition, undermining the Ruling Coalition’s Ccapacity to Govern on a discreet Agreement provides Leeway to a Reign of Anti-Democratic Conspiracies.
Anyone ... anyone, anyone?[32] ... witnessing fellow Citizens tolerating, advocating and actively supporting the Alternative for Germany should be aware of the following consequences. In pursuance of their political striving for gaining broad national Political Empowerment and eventually Governmental Power, one may also interpret Germany's inevitable Militarisation much more scrutinously.
In the wake of the Russo-Ukrainian War[33] and its anticipated long-term Aftermath, an Alternative for Germany is likely to be turning the Federal Republic of Germany into a key potential Threat to the G7's, European Union's and NATO's Cohesion by means of frustrating Human Rights, Peace in Germany, Europe and The World.
Under a German Right-Wing Regime & Co[34] one could figuratively expect another Reichstag Fire[35] being staged, Culprits being found and sentenced, eventually legitimising Democratic Totalitariamism[36] putting on the Old Hat of Law and Order.
5TH BONE TO PICK WITH MAGOO | NEVERENDING CRISIS!
The Traffic Light Coalition’s[37] Public Debates have literally scared off and pissed off too many Decent People having had Faith in their Abilities. In fact, the German population has been witnessing adolescent Squabbles among hostile Siblings in excess of a reasonable Degree of Common Tolerance.
In spite of surging Right-Wing Populism and Extremism, the Ruling National as much as the Thuringian Government should’ve rather proven Scarecrow Coalitions respectively capable of banishing these Dementors.
On the inside as much as on the outside, ‘Chance‘ Magoo has particularly lacked such Leadership Skills[38] and undisputed Authority of Governance, vital to echoing and pacifying Germans‘ points of View and Understanding on how to be dealing with a Neverending Crisis.
If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one. (Max Frisch, The Arsonists)
LAST BONE TO PICK WITH MAGOO | HEY ‘CHANCE‘!
Do you get it?![39]
Frame of Reference
Alleman(n)iac Transformers in Concert
Behemoth’s Unresolved Simplexities!
[1] Normalization on the Extreme Right: Alternative for Germany Party Again Gaining Ground - DER SPIEGEL
[6] Germany (Wikiped) ––– Germany country profile - BBC News ––– G7: Germany sets stage for G7 clash with push to endorse gas | Financial Times (ft.com) ––– European Union: Brussels, my love? Germany's leading role in the EU & the bloc's Istanbul Convention ratification | Euronews ––– NATO: NATO - News: Secretary General Stoltenberg praises German support to Ukraine, key role in NATO ––– Financial Markets: Financial Services (gtai.de): Germany is a major international financial center and the leading location in continental Europe. Five German cities regularly rank within the top 50 of the Global Financial Centres Index. ––– Monetary Policies (European Central Bank): Germany's Buch picked for top ECB supervision role | Reuters
[7] Russo-Ukrainian War (Wikiped) ––– International Migration Crisis: Human Rights and Border Security - The National Museum of American Diplomacy (state.gov) ––– Global Conflict Tracker l Council on Foreign Relations (cfr.org) ––– Current Civil Wars Maps – (Wikimedia Commons) etc.
[8] Social Democratic Party of Germany – History (Wikiped)
[9] The SPD's Programme for the Future (spd.de)
[10] Referring to Mr. Magoo (Wikiped): Mr. Magoo (known by his full name: J. Quincy Magoo) is a fictional cartoon character created at the UPA animation studio in 1949. Voiced by Jim Backus, Mr. Magoo is an elderly, wealthy, short-statured retiree who gets into a series of comical situations as a result of his extreme near-sightedness, compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem. However, through uncanny streaks of luck, the situation always seems to work itself out for him, leaving him no worse than before. Bystanders consequently tend to think that he is a lunatic, rather than just being near-sighted. In later cartoons, he is also an actor, and generally a competent one, except for his visual impairment.
[11] Opposites: How Olaf Scholz won Germany (socialeurope.eu) ––– How a year of Olaf Scholz has changed and shaped Germany | Euronews ––– A year on, Olaf Scholz’s promise of transformation is only partly kept (economist.com) ––– Germany's Scholz reaffirms election pledge to reform immigration laws (aa.com.tr) ––– ––– How we get Europe to ensure Ukraine's post-war success (nypost.com) ––– Who Is German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Why Is He Trending? (coopwb.in) ––– Germans Aren’t Buying Scholz’s Plan to Keep Them Safe and Rich - Bloomberg
[13] Note: Growing concerns on the right-wing party paving the way for partcipating in federal governance are not his. ––– Scholz says right-wing populists won't gain upper hand in Germany, despite far-right party's rise - ABC News (go.com) ––– related: This German crisis shows mainstream parties shouldn’t underestimate the far right | Cas Mudde | The Guardian
[14] Terrorism and voting: The rise of right-wing populism in Germany | CEPR ––– Normalization on the Extreme Right: Alternative for Germany Party Again Gaining Ground - DER SPIEGEL ––– Germany's AfD shows the populist tide is back - The Post (unherd.com) ––– Right-wing populism in Germany: Muslims and minorities after the 2015 refugee crisis | Brookings ––– related: Pop-Up Populism: The Failure of Left-Wing Nationalism in Germany (dissentmagazine.org) ––– related as follows: The World from Berlin: 'Anti-Establishment Rage Is Fuelling Populism Everywhere' - DER SPIEGEL ––– European populist parties’ vote share on the rise, especially on right | Pew Research Center ––– Right-Wing Populists Seek to Flex Muscles in the EU - DER SPIEGEL
[15] Thuringia (Wikiped) ––– key holders of public focus competing for governmental power as follows: Björn Höcke (Wikiped) ––– Bodo Ramelow (Wikiped) ––– related as follows: 2019 Thuringian state election (Wikiped) ––– 2020 Thuringian government crisis (Wikiped) ––– Cries of Faustian far-right bargain rattle German politics – POLITICO ––– Germany AfD: Outrage as far right helps oust Thuringia PM Ramelow - BBC News ––– Germany AfD: Thuringia PM quits amid fury over far right - BBC News ––– The government crisis in Germany’s Thuringia is over — except it isn’t | Brookings ––– This German crisis shows mainstream parties shouldn’t underestimate the far right | Cas Mudde | The Guardian ––– || ––– Thuringian state parliament passes controversial change with AfD votes News (jellypages.com) ––– CDU And AfD In Thuringia: Beginning Of A Friendship? - UK Snack Attack ––– || ––– related: Causes and Forms of Racism and Discrimination in Thuringia and their Effects on Social Coexistence and Free Democracy (thueringer-landtag.de) ––– historically related as follows: Thuringia in the Weimar Republic (lztthueringen.de): The November revolution of 1918 paved the way for the solution of the ‘Thuringian question’ and initiated the forceful end of single state dynasties.In the period from November 9-25, the dukes of following states had to resign: Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Altenburg, the two principalities of Reuss – Greiz (the older descend) and Gera (of the younger descend), Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg[15]Sondershausen. The member states of the Kaiser Reich transformed into free, republican states, so-called “Freistaaten” ––– Fritz Sauckel (Wikiped) ––– Thuringian articles about national history (lztthueringen.de): At dawn on October 16th, 1946 at Nuremberg’s prison, the execution of Fritz Sauckel was carried out, a man whose career as a leading NSDAP-official (National Socialist German Workers’ Party) had begun 20 years earlier in 1927 with his appointment as Thuringia’s Gauleiter, the leader of the Nazi district in that region. By 1930, Sauckel was able to lead the nationalist splinter party to becoming the first to participate in governing in a German district. Another two and a half years later he was able to achieve the “preponed takeover of power” as the head of the government. With Hitler coming to power 1933, Sauckel, a Northern-Bavarian by birth, rose to Reichstatthalter (imperial governor) in Thuringia and make his district into a strong regional power. In this way and thanks to personal connections, he increased his position of power within the polycratic “land of the Führer”. When he became “the general commissioner of the labor effort” in 1942, this was the most obvious expression of the power of the so-called “Gaufürst” or “district prince”. This position led to Sauckel becoming the “biggest and cruellest slave owner since the Egyptian pharaohs” (Robert H. Jackson, main prosecutor during the Nuremberg trials). Sauckel had six million forced labourers deported to Germany, which was the crucial factor in his being sentenced to death by hanging.
[16] Alternative for Germany (Wikiped) ––– key holders of public focus competing for governmental power as follows: Björn Höcke (Wikiped) ––– Bodo Ramelow (Wikiped) ––– Germany's AfD shows the populist tide is back - The Post (unherd.com) ––– related as follows: Prominent figure in German far-right party charged over alleged Nazi slogan | AP News ––– Far-right German politician to stand trial for use of banned Nazi slogan | The Times of Israel ––– AfD politician to stand trial in Germany charged with using banned Nazi slogan | Germany | The Guardian
[17] Geert Wilders (Wikiped) ––– An Interview with the Brother of Dutch Right Wing Populist Geert Wilders - DER SPIEGEL ––– Coalition Deal Imminent: Wilders Signals Support for Minority Dutch Government - DER SPIEGEL ––– related: The World from Berlin: 'Anti-Establishment Rage Is Fuelling Populism Everywhere' - DER SPIEGEL
[18] By analogy: Blocking minority (Wikiped)
[19] Journey - Don't Stop Believin' (Official Audio) - YouTube
[20] Helmut Schmidt (Wikiped) ––– Chancellor and crisis manager (bundesregierung.de) ––– On a Politician’s Ethics : speech given by former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt on 8 May 2007 at the Global Ethic Lecture, Tübingen University (interactioncouncil.org) ––– Germany in and with and for Europe : speech given by former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt on 4 December 2011 at the SPD party conference in Berlin (fes.de) ––– Helmut Schmidt | C-SPAN.org
[23] 1973 oil crisis (Wikiped) ––– 1970s energy crisis (Wikiped) ––– Milestones: 1969–1976 - Office of the Historian (state.gov)
[24] Red Army Faction (Wikiped) ––– German Autumn (Wikiped)
[25] By analogy: This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (researchgate.net)
[26] Russo-Ukrainian War (Wikiped)
[27] International Migration Crisis: Human Rights and Border Security - The National Museum of American Diplomacy (state.gov)
[28] Global Conflict Tracker l Council on Foreign Relations (cfr.org) ––– Current Civil Wars Maps – (Wikimedia Commons)
[29] Trojan Horse (Wikiped) ––– Trojan horse - computing (Wikiped) ––– listen!: Luv' - Trojan Horse • TopPop - YouTube
[30] By analogy: Magical creatures in Harry Potter (Wikiped)
[31] Motion of no confidence (Wikiped)
[32] "Anyone, anyone" teacher from Ferris Bueller's Day Off - YouTube
[33] Russo-Ukrainian War (Wikiped)
[34] Reichsbürger movement (Wikiped) ––– 2022 German coup d'état plot (Wikiped) ––– Germany arrests 25 accused of plotting coup - BBC News ––– Suspected German coup plot spawns dozens of arrests | AP News ––– ––– What we know about German group that plotted coup (nbcnews.com) ––– Police investigate German coup plot fuelled by conspiracy claims | Euronews ––– Germany coup plot: 25 suspected Reichsburger extremists arrested for planning to overthrow government | CNN
[36] Behemoth : The Structure And Practice Of National Socialism 1933-1944 : Neumann, Franz L. (Franz Leopold), 1900-1954 : Internet Archive