that’s It. Has to be every fart a torchlight procession? If a writer writes a bad book, is that then an attack on the literature? If at a busy intersection with a traffic light fails, it is then a stop on the road? If a is pulled, the singer of Dieter Bohlen the cocoa, then an attack on the Dignity of the human person?
Currently everyone can see from everywhere the democracy is threatened. Optionally, also “the community” or “liberalism” or “the rule of law”. With lust, full of the intensity of the specter of Weimar is summoned. The beginning of the then SPD Chancellor candidate, Martin Schulz, made in June 2017. He accused Angela Merkel and the CDU, not on the country’s future debate. “I call it an attack on democracy.”
The example was school, from the term a household word. In front of the Brandenburger Tor, thousands of people against hatred and racism demonstrated in October 2017. The AfD has condemned the demonstration as “attack on democracy”. As at the beginning of January 2018, the network enforcement act came into force, the Bavaria party of an “attack on freedom of expression, democracy and the rule of law”. The Left ranted, in turn, both in Bavaria and in North Rhine-Westphalia against “the most repressive police tasks act since the end of the Nazi regime,” and also spoke of an “attack on democracy”.
Since the SPD remembered your Schulz. The CSU, held in the summer of 2018 a lot of pressure on the coalition to toughen up the asylum law, keyword: transit centers, verübe, it was said, an “attack on democracy”. And also, the Federal government took refuge in this wonderfully dramatic-sounding phrase. The mass publication of personal data of politicians and Celebrities via Twitter, she saw the beginning of the year as a “serious attack on democracy”.
A black day
you Believe in such a highly engraved, epidemic used warning words, our democracy long ago your spirit, the Fullness of the attacks on you long collapse would have to give up. As the Swiss justice against “Correctiv”editor-in-chief Oliver Schröm determined because of alleged spying was meant to be the uncovering of the “Cum-Ex-scandal” – the hint to the Left again an “attack on democracy”. The same term one year ago, the alter-globalisation Organisation Attac, in order to characterize tax havens.
As Attac has now been withdrawn by the Federal Finance court of the Status of public benefit but, Sven Giegold, Attac-founder and member of the European Parliament of the Greens, with the sentence, quote, this was a “black day for democracy”.
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demonstrate”against hatred and racism in the Bundestag,” you don’t do it, neither Left nor right. Who is politically in Germany, something does not fit, automatically sees the democracy is in danger. The next argumentative step, the warning before the brown hordes take over the Power. The inflationary use of the term devalues it to the limits of absurdity. The Conclusion? Who speaks next of a “attack on democracy”, committed itself an attack on democracy.
