{"id":10273,"date":"2025-02-18T15:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T14:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.streetpepper.de\/worldtravel\/?p=10273"},"modified":"2025-05-11T21:06:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T19:06:27","slug":"go-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.streetpepper.de\/worldtravel\/2025\/02\/18\/go-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Go vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It&#8217;s up to us. Go and vote.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;t afford to get lost in our thoughts &#8211; or rather: the merry-go-round in our heads often prevents us from thinking clearly at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Germany is facing an election on the 23rd of February. The USA has already had itss &#8211; and Trump is back in power. Ignore the news? Maybe for a few days. But in the long term? Unthinkable. 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Written by people who know exactly what they are doing: Stephen Miller, Russell Vought &#8211; the architects of \u201cProject 2025\u201d. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal? Total control?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curtis Yarvin, a mastermind of the New Right, puts it bluntly: \u201cAmerica doesn&#8217;t need a president. America needs a CEO.\u201d A one-man rule. A dictatorship. And we are supposed to get used to this word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sounds absurd? But is it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dictators don&#8217;t appear as monsters. Not with horns and red eyes. They come as \u201csaviors\u201d, as \u201credeemers\u201d. As the seemingly only alternative in a supposedly hopeless world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is the strategy. Unsettle people for so long, flood them with fear and anger until they are ready to accept anything &#8211; as long as someone promises order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This is no longer politics. It&#8217;s a cult.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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 &#8211; their values, their own well-being, democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And what does that have to do with us?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suddenly people are being judged by their origins. According to their \u201cloyalty\u201d. What has long been taken for granted &#8211; that someone is German because they live, work and pay taxes here &#8211; is being called into question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I never used to think about where someone comes from. I didn&#8217;t care whether someone had a German passport or not. Now I&#8217;m being forced to question it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that is madness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that is precisely why we must not simply look away. Our individual voices may seem small &#8211; but together they carry weight. And they are necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Go and vote.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>And don&#8217;t vote for the obvious wrong. Not the AfD. Not the hate. Not those who divide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone who still believes that this party is a solution after the Musk-Weidel debacle either hasn&#8217;t been paying attention &#8211; or never wanted to know. Yes, of course Germany has always had external influences &#8211; from the USA, from Russia. Of course money plays a role. 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