“Less Coercion” – When Politicians Reveal The Truth About Their State

“A state is known as the coldest of all chilly monsters.
Coldly lieth it additionally; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: ‘I, the state, am the folks’.”
Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Stefan H. Heuer, M.A.
Might 19, 2025

Studying the company press within the late occupation regime referred to as Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) is never pleasant for me, nevertheless it’s nonetheless an obligation – you need to know what the enemy is saying.

And generally, it truly is enlightening to learn what the ‘German’ press tycoons Springer, Burda, and the Social Democratic Occasion’s press empire need to hammer into our heads, like this Monday.

Maybe there’s a secret part alongside the traces of “Oh, how good!”?

In as we speak’s on-line version of the previously conservative German newspaper „DIE WELT“, which these days offends many readers with the woke propaganda of the “DPA” press company and which additionally considers promoting for doubtful merchandise to be advisable, there was an article that I wish to assign to this Monday collection:

Beneath the heading “Disaster of confidence within the state” [sic!], Mr. Ulrich Exner writes in regards to the concepts of an area Social Democratic Occasion (SPD) politician: “Have given residents the impression that the state coerces them at each stage”.

This sentence, which is suboptimal when it comes to grammar and studying stream, comes from Leipzig’s mayor Burkhard Jung, who can be head of the German Affiliation of Cities and Cities.

The German Affiliation of Cities, we keep in mind, was a type of organizations within the FRG on the time of the Corona-plandemic that had vigorously spoken out in favor of the authoritarian state’s curbing of individuals and prolonged management and had stigmatized whole teams of individuals with vicious scaremongering (Mr. Jung: “The pandemic of the unvaccinated is coming”:

https://www.staedtetag.de/presse/interviews/2021/einheitliche-coronamassnahmen; see additionally:. https://www.staedtetag.de/presse/interviews/wir-brauchen-klare-regeln-und-gute-kommunikation) –
After all, this was just for the advantage of the alleged normal public – in spite of everything, the goal was to guard the well-vaccinated from the evil viruses of the unvaccinated… And even when the Affiliation of Cities and Cities joined an extended line of equally uncovered FRG organizations and personalities with this angle, the attentive observer was left with the stale style of state encroachment.

Earlier than the WELT brings down the paywall, you possibly can learn:

“Over-regulation and a scarcity of belief in a single’s personal residents: for the brand new President of the Affiliation of German Cities, Burkhard Jung (SPD), these are decisive causes for rising scepticism about democracy.

The Mayor of Leipzig pleads for much less coercion by the state.”

Now that’s robust: a politician is in favor of loosening the shackles on the voters!

This instantly creates sympathy, to which the photograph of the grinning, casually dressed gentleman connected to the article may additionally contribute. The satisfied FRG citizen, the WELT subscriber specifically, leans again and thinks to himself comfortably that there’s lastly somebody up there who understands the folks. A pleasant buddy, so to talk.

Nevertheless, the observer, who has consciously distanced himself from society as a result of he has come to realize it as irredeemably sick and harmful, does, because of his renunciation of the mental frugality typical of FRG residents, comes up with some puzzles that elevate questions:

1. Isn’t “coercion by the state” a attribute of an authoritarian regime? Shouldn’t or not it’s incompatible with the values and nature of a liberal constitutional order?
2. Ought to there subsequently be no “coercion by the state” of individuals in a supposedly “liberal-democratic” system, because the FRG likes to say to be?
3. Shouldn’t the foundations and laws of a free and democratic state even make it unimaginable for the state to coerce folks?
4. And for the reason that allegedly liberal, democratic and constitutional FRG apparently has the “coercion by the state”, as described by Mr. Jung, pushed to an extent {that a} consultant of this state considers important for the state, does this not imply, conversely, that the FRG will not be a liberal, democratic and constitutional state, however an authoritarian regime of the type that the FRG itself likes to find and loudly criticize in different international locations?
5. From a purely logical standpoint, is the skepticism of residents in the direction of the coercive state perceived by the SPD politician subsequently not a eager for democracy, reasonably than “scepticism about democracy”, for the reason that coercive state is authoritarian?
6. And eventually: Is that this gentleman, who at the least recklessly, if not intentionally, agitated towards teams of individuals, in any respect certified to debate about freedom and the connection of the folks (i.e. the nation!) to the chilly monster that’s the state?

When you let these gents speak, in the end they’ll reveal themselves.

Stefan H. Heuer, M.A.
Historian, born in 1964, has labored as a lecturer in grownup schooling and, amongst others,
in Human assets improvement for a US-American firm in Germany.

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