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How cuddly cats Robert wants to cuddle into office
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The green candidate Robert Habeck wants to embody a new politician type. Learning and antipopulist. Honorable, but achieves the opposite, says star-Kolumnist Florian Schroeder.
For a few weeks now I have been observing in my shows and on Insta on my reels that gags no longer go well over Robert Habeck. For some contemporaries, you cross a taboo limit. The Habeck ultras can record it with the Helene Fischer ultras. You understand absolutely no fun, your star can go over the water, in case of doubt “up the stream”.
I interpret the rampant humorlessness of this milieus as follows: Robert Habeck is the column saint of the generation of the cargo bike. He is the Messiah of the mind and sustainable, those who always strive to do everything right and still find in quiet hours that they primarily think green and live black. That can be very stressful.
Habeck is loved for a political style that was actually new and refreshingly different five to seven years ago. Another tone, a different language, a different self -reflection. But now the principle has survived. In times of true times of times, which in the United States, it has a stranger from time, especially every second. You have the feeling that Habeck, the candidate of the people, would like to cuddle into office with pats.
Robert Habeck comes on velvet paws
Much of Habeck is meant well and yet badly done because it is too pretentious. If Habeck is the candidate of the people, the question arises for me, what were his predecessors? Well, Gerhard “I am a star, get me in here” Schröder was the boss comrade, but are bosses not people? The lion is the king of animals and the lion among the politicians is already Markus Söder, Habeck looks more like the cuddly cat, who looks at the kitchen table, whether everything is good, dalse an idea and sneaks away on velvet paws.
Habeck’s problem is now repeated that it becomes surprisingly difficult if the language he loves so much does what she wants with him. During pandemic, he once said that companies were not insolvent just because they no longer sold anything. When Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour had resigned, Habeck said that the two of them had shown in their resignation what good chair they were. Briefly you had the impression that the two were a good wine: only in the finish shows how good it really was. Or the irritating sentence, according to which “the debate about the building energy law, so how do we heat in the future, was honestly a test of how far society is willing to wear climate protection when it becomes concrete”.
As soon as Habeck improvised, he is like Merz: a latent “loose cannon”
All of these moments combine one. Habeck has taken the sentence “Where should I know what I think before I heard what I say” too seriously. All of these mistakes are clear examples of the principle “well meant, badly made”. As soon as Habeck improvised, he is like Friedrich Merz: a latent “loose cannon”.
And now the latest pranks of our language genius on vacation: involve the investment income in the social security contributions in order to renovate the statutory health insurance companies. The question in the “Report from Berlin” interview was only whether he wanted to abolish private health insurance. Thereupon to open such a barrel is your own performance. It is so absurd as if you are asked “Where do you live?” Say: “No idea, but the house looks like a clumsy toilet in hell, there are diapers, cat litter and cigarette butts all over the living room and the neighbors are at the Hells Angels, but like to come to visit me.”
Later Habeck said that it was about people who earn millions with stocks. He thus spread the cliché from the super -rich shareholder. The average shareholders are not rich at all. The largest group of shareholders earns between 2000 and 3000 euros net per month. The second largest group is between 1000 and 2000 euros in the income class. That means: Greens voters are not one of them. They are simply too rich for cheap stock speculations.
Campaign managers call the basic rule for a good election campaign: never solve a problem that nobody knows yet. So never wake up sleeping dogs. Habeck does it the other way round: he creates a problem that nobody knows and then has no solution for it yet. In short: he not only woke up the dogs, but also torn the whole village out of sleep and applied against himself with whose barking.
I have the impression that Robert- “Even the cheapest calendar saying looks like a Thomas Mann quote if you only equip it with an unnecessary relative-set construction”-Habeck does not really want to be a chancellor. And the Greens don’t want that either. Whenever it runs reasonably round, you will find a stumbling block to braise everything again. Sometimes it is the veggie day, then again the heating law and now the capital yields.
But if you live like Habeck from constant reflection and are busy learning from mistakes day out, you have to make mistakes regularly. Otherwise he would soon be unemployed.
Source: Stern

I have been working in the news industry for over 6 years, first as a reporter and now as an editor. I have covered politics extensively, and my work has appeared in major newspapers and online news outlets around the world. In addition to my writing, I also contribute regularly to 24 Hours World.