2024-01-30 11:47:18
“Anger, protests, new parties: who is still holding our country together?” was the title of yesterday’s broadcast by “Hard but fair“. A legitimate question of oppressive topicality, which was not only not answered or discussed in the broadcast, but was merely touched upon.
Any trace of a discussion was too often stifled and diverted into other – perhaps more pleasant – channels.
There was not even any sense of a “talk at eye level” or even “persistent questioning” – this is how Louis Klamroth’s moderation style is described on his homepage. Certainly, a touch of authenticity was noticeable when, right at the beginning of the 75-minute live broadcast, a person “who is directly affected by political decisions in everyday life” was invited to the table. In this case it was a friendly-looking operator of a hair salon from Remscheid. But it stayed with this whiff.
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Only the Union guarantees cohesion?
Carsten Schneider, SPD, the Federal Commissioner for East Germany, and the CDU General Secretary Carsten Lindemann sat opposite the medium-sized entrepreneur, next to Sahra Wagenknecht, the chairwoman of the new BSW party. From a purely visual perspective, the whole thing appeared as if two precocious and ambitious students had sat down next to a lady whose intelligence and political agenda was perceived as a kind of threat, but from whom there was no need to be afraid, as moderator Klamroth Wagenknecht regularly and in in the usual manner, as soon as the discussion got going.
In contrast to Ms. Wagenknecht, Carsten and Carsten, the two namesakes, of almost the same age and a very similar habitus, also had the opportunity to express themselves in detail without being interrupted by the moderator. The thesis wafted through the studio like amen in church, according to which only the governing parties and the Union would guarantee cohesion in society, come what may.
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One should not demonstrate “against something”.
This impression was reinforced, or should have been reinforced, when three further guests from the audience were invited into the discussion. The entrepreneur Tijen Onaran, who was supposed to steal the show from Sahra Wagenknecht, took her place (like a diva) in an orange and yellow pants suit and eloquently argued that we need a strong government and no one who constantly criticizes the government, although she Sahra Wagenknecht briefly acknowledged a look that was apparently intended to express something like indignation.
The sociologist Nils Kumkar, project manager at the Research Institute for Social Cohesion, was unable to contribute anything relevant to the topic of his research and the broadcast, at least in this constellation, while a certain Maria Fichte, who organized a “demo against the right” in Freiberg, Saxony, had come to the conclusion that everything should be left as it is, especially political power in the hands of the established parties. One should not demonstrate against something like Ms. Wagenknecht, but rather for something, although she left it open what this “for” should be.
Who holds society together?
Sahra Wagenknecht herself sometimes seemed as if she was fed up and was conspicuously holding back, but this also seemed to be a result of the efforts of the recent party conference. It would have been Wagenknecht who could have given the program a higher level and a livelier discussion. But the show failed to achieve this goal; there was no real discussion. It was neither hard nor fair, and above all, it did not bring any new insights – or even answers – to the question of who holds society together. Definitely not talk formats like this.
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