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Identity documents are overrated, diversity is always great, and there are no biological genders: This is how the "traffic light" government coalition is working on restructuring German society.


In liberal countries, the citizens tell the state what to do. SPD, Greens and FDP want to reverse this balance of power and politicize the new "committed" democrats in kindergarten.

The German "traffic light" coalition has entered its sixth month. In mid-December last year, Chancellor Olaf Scholz made his first government statement. Since then, the accusation that the three-party coalition has talked too much has persisted. Digitization is not progressing, economic development is slowing down, the health system is lame, and the "share pension" is a long time coming. It was a single heave and sting, hesitation and procrastination.

SPD, Greens and FDP can point to the Ukraine war and its consequences as a mitigating factor. And they can proudly focus on those areas in which they actually deliver. The social restructuring that Olaf Scholz promised, the social transformation, is progressing. Society is well on the way to developing into a community of committed people. But is this really progress?

Every plan bears the seeds of failure, and not all laws change reality. But no one can deny the will of the three governing parties to fundamentally transform society. Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser from the SPD, for example, calls for and promotes “democracy education”.

So she gives the Germans a dubious testimony. Almost 80 years after the end of the war and 33 years after the fall of the Wall, their compatriots are still not (or no longer) proper democrats. If that were really the case, all of Europe and half the world would have to worry. Possibly, however, Faeser's diagnosis is a rhetorical trick so that her favorite project, the "Democracy Promotion Act", can more easily jump over the hurdles of necessity.

"Committed civil society" as the measure of all things
A draft law drawn up jointly with the Ministry for Family Affairs should be available by the end of the year. Initiatives and associations that were previously dependent on short-term project funding can then look forward to regular payments from the state budget.

According to the discussion paper by the two ministries, Germany needs “democratic commitment and convinced democrats”. That is why "projects in the field of democracy promotion, diversity design and extremism prevention should be reliably supported". Family Minister Lisa Paus from the Greens specified: The "committed civil society" deserves all state support.

If civil society is already a strange conceptual bastard of state and society, which should face each other in fruitful tension, "committed civil society" is completely a wooden iron. What is meant are social actors who act in the interests of the currently governing parties and are subsidized by the state for this. The state wants to form a society in its own image. Ultimately, the citizen is placed under reserve.

Those identity-political players who offer courses and seminars on the “fight against the right-wingers”, against climate change, for integration and for “diversity” are primarily worthy of long-term support. Paus and Faeser expressly reject an extremism formula that would require the initiatives to renounce any extremist temptation.

Anti-feminists and other misanthropes
The “committed civil society” should turn against racists and extremists of all persuasions, although their right-wing extremist form is mentioned very often and the Islamist form almost never. It is also strange that Faeser mentions "anti-Semites and anti-feminists" in the same breath. Apparently, the SPD politician considers the hatred of Jews and the rejection of feminism among "convinced democrats" to be equally despicable.

In order to prevent both from developing in the first place, Faeser advocates early childhood democracy education. The kindergarten is to become a political space in which the youngest learn the "fight against right-wing extremism" in a playful way. If you take further statements by Faeser, who is also home minister, at face value, the fight against the traditional concept of home must also be fought in the day care center.

Home, says the minister, “is all people, no matter where they come from”. That is why «we have to reinterpret the concept of home in a positive way and define it in such a way that it is open and diverse. And that it expresses that people can decide for themselves how they want to live, believe and love.» We learn: The homeland minister considers homeland to be a negative term that needs to be reinterpreted by the state. It requires the collective to work on the concept in order to then generously allocate individuality.

Even four-year-olds should show the right posture
The social restructuring of the "traffic light" has two goals: first, life should be broken down into a sequence of correct decisions, from kindergarten to the deathbed; This creates a long flow of confessions and thus the ideological control of norms.

Secondly, being no longer determines consciousness, but doing does. Anyone who does not participate permanently and pull along has no part in the community of committed people. "Our cohesion" (Paus) does not apply to the apolitical, not even to those who already consider home to be a positive concept.

Even four-year-olds should learn to distinguish between the right and wrong postures in kindergarten. The "Rainbow Portal" operated by the Ministry of Family Affairs recommends reading a book with the story of a male mermaid. The little ones should learn to appreciate “individuality, diversity and variety”. Childhood must no longer be an island of purposelessness and thus no childhood in the previous sense. Politics overarches every stage of life.

At the age of 14, i.e. still under age, every young person should then be able to freely decide at the registry office what gender they have. This is what it says in two draft laws by the Greens and FDP that failed in the summer of 2020, which are now being incorporated into the “Self-Determination Act” that the “Traffic Light” majority is striving for before the parliamentary summer break.

Once again the will to arbitrariness celebrates triumphs, even at the price of deviating into the absurd. The federal government's queer commissioner, the Green politician Sven Lehmann, earned these merits when he recently claimed that gender identity cannot in principle be assessed from the outside, not even by doctors.

Epoch break ahead
However, the same fluid principle should apply to the physical borders of the country as to those of the body: the assertion defines being. Anyone who does not identify themselves when applying for asylum may state their nationality by means of an affidavit. According to Interior Minister Faeser, this option should only be an exception in emergencies - but how can you prevent the exception from becoming the rule? Again, identity politics turns identity into a chimera.

The new spirit has already caught on in German case law. In April, the administrative court in Mainz ruled against the city of Worms, which did not want to naturalize a Somali citizen because he could not present official identification documents. According to the judges, testimonies from the family should suffice in emergency situations. Will those "communities of responsibility" be closed on such a basis in the future, as the FDP is pushing for in family law? "Two or more adults" should soon be allowed to enter into such a relationship, provided they are not related.

In a speech at the end of April, the Foreign Minister made clear the epochal break that the "traffic light" wants to set in motion. "Identity in the 21st century", explained Annalena Baerbock, means "above all civil society commitment, being integrated into society". Such a definition breaks with anthropological certainties and can hardly be reconciled with the conditions of a liberal constitutional state.

Accordingly, identity is not shaped by the ego but by the collective, and in order to achieve it, the individual must engage. It is only the politically desired commitment that makes people special. Only society provides for individuality. It will still have to explain to its core electorate why an FDP, which sees itself as a liberal party, partly tolerates and partly welcomes these statist maneuvers. It is also difficult to understand the deafening silence of the CDU and CSU, who have so far done nothing to oppose the expulsion of the bourgeois.

This is the conclusion: The "traffic light" that wants to create a fear-free, diverse, free society is afraid of diversity and freedom.

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