It’s up to us. Go and vote.
I wish I had more time to think. More space to sort myself out, to organize everything that comes at us every day. But the world is on fire. And we can’t afford to get lost in our thoughts – or rather: the merry-go-round in our heads often prevents us from thinking clearly at all.
Germany is facing an election on the 23rd of February. The USA has already had itss – and Trump is back in power. Ignore the news? Maybe for a few days. But in the long term? Unthinkable. Because what’s happening right now is too big, too dangerous, too real.
The figures we see in the media – whether we love them or hate them – are not the real decision-makers. The string-pullers remain in the shadows.
Alice Weidel – lesbian, living in Switzerland – does she seriously believe she is safe in the long term in a party like the AfD?
Robert Habeck – does he believe that a party that once stood for peace will remain credible if it supplies weapons to war zones?
And how about Trump? How could he get so many people vote for him?
Trump is not the problem. He is the face. The empty shell. The entertainer who hypnotizes the masses while a plan has long been running in the background.
Hundreds of executive orders. Written by people who know exactly what they are doing: Stephen Miller, Russell Vought – the architects of “Project 2025”. Not a reform program, but a subversion plan. A network of over 100 right-wing organizations that do not want to strengthen the state, but to abolish it.
The goal? Total control?
Curtis Yarvin, a mastermind of the New Right, puts it bluntly: “America doesn’t need a president. America needs a CEO.” A one-man rule. A dictatorship. And we are supposed to get used to this word.
Sounds absurd? But is it?
Dictators don’t appear as monsters. Not with horns and red eyes. They come as “saviors”, as “redeemers”. As the seemingly only alternative in a supposedly hopeless world.
That is the strategy. Unsettle people for so long, flood them with fear and anger until they are ready to accept anything – as long as someone promises order.
This is no longer politics. It’s a cult.
A sect that binds its followers so tightly to itself that facts no longer play a role. That moral boundaries become blurred. That people are prepared to give up everything for their leader – their values, their own well-being, democracy.
And what does that have to do with us?
Everything.
I see how many of my friends in Germany are worried. People who have made this country their home suddenly feel that they are no longer welcome. The mood is changing.
Suddenly people are being judged by their origins. According to their “loyalty”. What has long been taken for granted – that someone is German because they live, work and pay taxes here – is being called into question.
I never used to think about where someone comes from. I didn’t care whether someone had a German passport or not. Now I’m being forced to question it.
And that is madness.
But that is precisely why we must not simply look away. Our individual voices may seem small – but together they carry weight. And they are necessary.
Go and vote.
And don’t vote for the obvious wrong. Not the AfD. Not the hate. Not those who divide.
Anyone who still believes that this party is a solution after the Musk-Weidel debacle either hasn’t been paying attention – or never wanted to know. Yes, of course Germany has always had external influences – from the USA, from Russia. Of course money plays a role. But we are not powerless. We must not allow algorithms to define us. That “cultivated racism”, as the Danes call it, passes as harmless.
Racism is racism. Period. And it’s not a technology problem. It’s a social problem.
So: What do we want to talk about? About what we reject? Or about what we want – and how we can achieve it together?
I want peace. I want humanity. I want a society in which we can discuss things without despising each other.
It’s up to us.