Of course, "OurDemocracy™" is now like an organic label: it's on the label, it feels good, but if you look closer, you realize it's primarily a marketing term. The left has become world-class in this discipline: selling anti-democratic ideas while shouting "defending democracy!" And they do it with such conviction that you almost believe they mean it.
The core of the problem is simple: For the left, democracy is no longer a process, but an outcome. You're welcome to vote. But please, do it properly. That means voting in a way that's morally acceptable, sounds socially palatable, and ideally has been sanctioned by a carefully curated, fact-checking narrative. Anything else is then labeled "danger," "hate," "division," "our democracy in danger," and the entire arsenal of alarmist buzzwords that are perfectly suited to delegitimizing political opponents without having to engage with their arguments.
And that brings us to Harald Martenstein. His speech holds a mirror up to this company, and it hurts because mirrors are so brutally honest. Three sentences from it hit like a sledgehammer to papier-mâché:
First: When a "show trial" is held to discuss banning a party that receives 20% of the vote in some parts of the country and 35-40% in others, then the discussion isn't about "defending democracy." It's about ending democracy. Not because the party is inherently good, but because a democracy that eliminates a viable opposition through fanciful bans is no longer a democracy, but a system merely decorated with ballot papers.
Secondly: "You can abolish democracy under the guise of defending it." This is the favorite trick of the left's political hygiene department: first assert the moral necessity, then restrict freedom, and subsequently celebrate the restriction because it is directed "against the bad guys." Today it's the AfD, tomorrow it's anyone who asks the wrong question, the day after tomorrow anyone who quotes "incorrectly," and eventually a single incorrect emoji will suffice. And that's what they call progress.
Thirdly: “Banning parties capable of winning a majority deprives this state of its legitimacy and transforms it into an authoritarian regime.” This is precisely where things get unpleasant. The left likes to claim it is the last bastion against authoritarianism. At the same time, it dreams of instruments that are exactly authoritarian: exclusion instead of debate, stigmatization instead of discussion, blocking instead of arguments. And when you point this out, the standard response is: “Yes, but… they’re the wrong ones.” Perfect. Authoritarianism, but with a clear conscience. How novel.
The absurdity lies in the fact that the left acts as if it's the victim of a massive threat, while simultaneously wielding the institutional toolbox. Media culture, the NGO sphere, the education system, parts of the administration, public debate spaces: all teeming with people who tell you what's acceptable to say, what's "problematic," and who "doesn't deserve a platform." And when, at the end of the day, it turns out that such a climate leads to defiance, backlash, and radicalization, the diagnosis is naturally not "We went too far." Instead, it's: "Do you see how dangerous they are?" It's a self-perpetuating mechanism. A political smoke detector standing next to a fog machine.
And then comes the final act, which, according to your text, "speaks for itself": a selection of woke socialists who ultimately reveal their malevolence. I'll put it less mystically: if you spend years learning to see political opponents not as citizens with differing opinions, but as morally inferior, then you will eventually act accordingly. Condescendingly. Aggressively. Exclusively. And all the while completely convinced that you are on the side of good.
That's the real hypocritical point: The left preaches diversity, but means diversity of opinion only within a very narrow corridor. It preaches tolerance, but practices tolerance only for conformist positions. It preaches democracy, but means a kind of supervised democracy in which the people are allowed to vote as long as they don't vote "wrong".
Martenstein's reflection is unsettling because it shows that those who constantly cry "fight against the right" can very quickly end up fighting against voting. And that is no longer a defense of democracy. It is merely a power program with a moral veneer.
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