Democracy yes, Berlin Republic no!

Critics of democracy are often pushed into a certain intellectual corner. Anti-democratic, radical, dubious. To name just the most harmless.

This is a modern way of influencing opinions and steering them in the desired direction. The general suspicion here is that the masses are being kept lethargic and uncritical so that they can exploit the weaknesses of the system to their own advantage.

But anyone who criticizes the existing form of democracy and makes fundamental proposals for reform towards a better functioning democracy and society is in reality a democrat who stands out positively from the Pharisees of the current political establishment.

Democracy per se is not good or bad, it is the way it is shaped and how it is intertwined with society that can make a democracy dysfunctional.

There are enough signs of a disintegrating, dysfunctional Berlin Republic. Here is just a small selection:

• Reform backlog
• Lobbying and economic integration
• Clientele policy
• Loss of reality in daily politics
• Failure due to acute problems
• Consensus policy instead of solution policy

But the problems of the Berlin Republic go deeper and evoke the image of the Augean stables. These topics will have to be addressed in further articles in order to shed more light on Germany’s self-inflicted disaster.

First of all, however, it should be emphasized that a democratic reform, whatever form it may take, must always lead to a different form of democracy and not to a change in the system of rule!