Monday 19 September 2011

damn politic, but very interesting stupidity

Whitin a few days there was political elections both in Denmark and Berlin. To me it was rather exiting, as I was giving the oppurtunity to participate in this event for the first time in Berlin. And I have 12 years behind me as employed musician in Denmark, where I never took part of the possibility to vote. In Denmark i did not feel very welcome to do that. It might just have been a feeling, but a feeling that almost every day got fuel from very distinguished messages about me; that I am not danish. The remarks about my dialect was expressed as missing knowledge of the danish language. This danish attitude do not inspire a guest from another country to participate in the society. There is also difficult to detect deeper ideological arguments under the surface of the daily political retoric in Denmark.
I have been rather astonished from time to time about the danish way to create political propaganda. There is a shameless way of expressing direct egoistical offers to the voters, as should the political responsibility for the gowernment be; only to deal with giving you the best offer for your taxmoney. Of course is the main task for the elected politicians to handle our common resources. But I am of that impression that the most inhabitants in Denmark detest a discussion about ideology. So that's the leading star also for the politicians.
Such an attitude is almost impossible to keep up in Berlin. Twenty years after the wall, with still remaining memories fysical, and for many decades to come, private and social resemblences, make ideological arguments belonging to the daily discussions between friends and also with persons that you do not know. For the nation Germany, is the reality of responsibility for theire part of second world war, one of the most clear facts in the nations mind.
If you do not have an explainable ideology in German, you will be considered as a person with identity failure. Those circumstances made the voting situation more exiting to me. I know Berlin since many years, and had no problem with deciding who to support, but I did feel it as importent to take part. That feeling never occured to me in Denmark.
Neverless, I feel some of the same annoyance in Berlin as in Denmark over stupid political propaganda. And sorry to say, that go's also for so a big party as the Christdemocrates. What do you think about the substance in this annoncement f.ex.:"damit sich was ändert"..='that something change'....
Both Berlin and Denmark got socialdemocrates in head of the gowernments, but from different reasons. In Denmark the liberal party "Venstre", choosed to rule the country together with the rightwinged extremists "Dansk folkparti" after the last election, so they got last week what they diserved; the red card. The architect of that stupid combination, Anders Fough Rasmussen, got rewarded with the chiefspost at Nato, after getting friend to the US-president Bush. So he does not have to pay for his sins to day.
I do not have the courage to comment the danish socialdemocrates.
But in Berlin you might say without anxiety that the socialdemocrates were reelected the third time because they deserved it.
I mean that the elected persons to our democratic institutions, among other dutys also have a pedagogical one. Anders Fough Rasmussen have deeply missused that part of his responsibility as elected politician in Denmark, when he he decided to rule the country together with opportunists. The "Dansk Folkparti" has shown a very agressiv attitude as supporting party to the "Venstre" in Denmark the last years, with very clear demands about influence on immigrant poilitic f.ex.
In Berlin is the liberal party disappered from influence on the politic. That is a tragical fact for the democracy here, as I see it. I would say that it has to do with lost of identity. That is also what happend to the danish liberal party, "Venstre".
From what reason do some elected persons choose to cover up about the deeper ideological questions? Does it pay off? Is our western culture on way out of track. Can we allow our selves and our elected to make us more and more stupid?

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