I am again listening to the radio news on Bayern 2. We will soon go to Mali and fight Islamists and Djihadists. Of course, we will not send fighting troops, but we will send soldiers. For technical support. Well, we have to do it, don’t we – since, again, the safety of the Western World is at stake… You know: terrorism.
It is an unhealthy report, but is fits well with the general picture.
The thing that surprises me most this morning, however, is the latest news about students’ fees. Mind you, I have not really made up my mind about students’ fees. There are just too many arguments in favour of and against them. Also, I do not know if students’ fees are relevant for the educational standard of a nation.
But I do find it interesting how the process of forming a political opinion works in our Bavarian bureaucracy. We have a party that, in my personal perception, is rather on the conservative side and daringly calls itself “Free Voters”. This is just as much a lie as a party calling itself “Christian“.
This party wants to look good with an emotional issue. So students’ fees seem a good idea. Basically, abolishing students’ fees is not something that would go well with the “Free Voters” program, but all is allowed if you want political success, isn’t it?
Well, a plebiscite will make you visible. Consequently, the “Free” party wants to initiate a plebiscite for the abolition of students’ fees. The authorities say no, for whatever reason. Of course they will go to court – and, of course, in the end the plebiscite will be permitted. Why should a plebiscite against students’ fees not be permissible?
But as soon as we have a judicial decree, the avalanche will start rolling. The parties assume that a majority of citizens will vote against the students’ fees. And this is how the massive pro-students‘-fees front will go down like a land slide. Just because a court of justice said so.
Is that the right way of developing social consensus?
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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