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DrDemokratie

Dec 10 • 35 tweets • 5 min read

Many people, like me, are looking for coherent, productive, inspiring thoughts

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Many people, like me, are looking for coherent, productive, inspiring thoughts that can serve as starting point(s) for political action towards a society free of domination through (non-violent) overcoming of the domination of the huge fortunes....

These can serve as starting point(s) for political action in the direction of a society free of domination through (non-violent) overcoming of the domination of huge fortunes ...

fight against capitalism = rule of huge, illegitimate fortunes, imperialism, colonialism, Zionism, fascism (also in Ukraine, NATO, USA), racism, Wokeria / Wokoharam / Wokeness, Cancel Culture, gender mania, abolition of cash, totalitarianism, NATO/EU/WEF, Great Reset/Agenda2030,

armament, war propaganda, wars, exploitation, social dismantling, violence and alienation of the human being.

I do not form a bubble that excludes dissenters from the discourse, but I consciously seek dialogue with all system-critical people who still obviously think for themselves, especially with those who also have different views.

What is important to me is a non-violent, respectful exchange that appreciates the opinion, position and views of others as valuable, which is something I am always working on myself!

The goal is and remains not to lose the other (ultimately all others) as opponents or even enemies, but to win them as partners or even friends.

I do criticise people's actions, but I try to avoid any devaluation or even dehumanisation of a fellow human being, even if he is a politically dissident or even an "opponent".

For me, non-violent also means resisting and ending a possible injustice and at the same time (trying to) win over the one who is doing it.

Because only together can we achieve a better future for all people without exception.
"One does not have to share the other arguments. But not to admit them or to discredit them from the outset as propaganda or the like is damaging to democracy, of which we are rightly proud."

"A democracy must be able to tolerate disputes, and that can be done respectfully. But as soon as a society becomes radicalised, the culture of debate is over. And that's the way it goes." Gabriele Krone-Schmalz

"The ideologisation and above all the moral charging of debates amounts to polarisation, which almost inevitably leads to radicalisation. ..."
Gabriele Krone-Schmalz

"For those who believe themselves to be morally on the right side claim to assert their point of view literally by any means necessary, because that is what they do for the good cause."
Gabriele Krone-Schmalz

"And anyone who doesn't realise this is automatically on the sidelines. The corridors of opinion have indeed become depressingly narrow, and not only on the subject of Russia."
Gabriele Krone-Schmalz

This means that dissenters are no longer a natural part of our fundamentally lively open society, but disturbing factors who are better not even allowed to speak, or even enemies who must be ostracised with all due consequence."

"But actors on the good side don't have to bother at all to explain or even justify their behaviour, because evil has to be fought. What is there to discuss?"

"The problem with this is, for one thing, things are rarely as black and white as they are often made out to be for simplicity's sake...
A yes-but or no-though,

that has nothing to do with weakness or indecisiveness, but rather speaks for the fact that the person is capable of differentiation & is not satisfied with flat good/evil schemes, which, by the way, rarely have anything to do with reality."
Gabriele Krone-Schmalz

"The other point, even if it is perhaps difficult to bear. Morality can never replace political analysis and smart political action derived from it.
With that, I am not arguing for politics without morals, quite the opposite."
Gabriele Krone-Schmalz

"For me, moral foreign policy is characterised, for example, by thinking things through to the end and making sure that it serves the people and not some principles."
Gabriele Krone-Schmalz

"And one more thing. A cardinal mistake in politics and the media is to sell snapshots as reality. Reality is always a process. Everything has a prehistory. To understand reality, it is necessary to know about chronology."
Gabriele Krone-Schmalz

"Not to confuse cause and effect. At least to try to find out who is acting and who is reacting in an issue."

"Whoever understands something, understands connections, knows backgrounds and has the chance to explain what is going on &why."
Gabriele Krone-Schmalz

Only those who understand are responsible citizens, can organise themselves, actively participate in shaping things, cannot be manipulated and controlled by others. With the framing and character assassination(s) Putintroll or Putinversteher ...

the thinking that Russia also has legitimate interests is to be thrown out of the Overton window of what can be thought. For inflation & rising prices, for the lack of investment in German infrastructure &against the growing poverty in the increasingly poor countries.

Putin is not responsible for inflation & rising prices, for the lack of investment in German infrastructure &against the growing poverty in the ever-increasing wealth of the few, no sensible person believes that except those whose job depends on it. It must give everyone,

but especially the "journalists" (or rather the mouthpieces) of the big media, pause for thought when the gap between public and published opinion grows ever wider.
According to Krone-Schmalz, ...

it is "part of the little rule of professional ethics" that "journalists must separate themselves from their own sympathies and antipathies as well as possible. &they are independent of propaganda institutions such as the Atlantic Bridge or the Integrity Initiative.

"Freedom of the press means independence in every respect, from governmental and other influence anyway, but also from something like mainstream."

"But I am deeply shocked when professional colleagues unblinkingly question the judgment of society at large and refuse to take seriously protests and complaints from readers, listeners and viewers ...
...

who are speaking out in unprecedented numbers because they notice the one-sided reporting and are concerned about a verbal rearmament with regard to Russia and block the comment functions on the internet!
"Published opinion with a claim to infallibility?
Self-criticism - absent?

Investigation of causes - too tedious and uncomfortable? ... no research that goes beyond the eyeball at the scene of the event" no critical enquiry, so US/NATO war propaganda stagings and lies like the alleged massacre in #Bucha by the Russian army have it easy ...

The world is growing together, a world whose humanity is militarily capable of wiping out all, really all life - if not now, when then it is necessary to understand the actors of geopolitics, including Russia, ...