ALLIANCE FO§ DEMOCRACY

Sister Merkel

When she was still scrubbing the decks of the luxury steamer 'West-CDU' in the 1990's, she might have wished that she could be standing behind the wheel.
The way to the party head office was long and steep; it lead via the galley, where she drew attention to herself for her plum tarts. It was from this time that she was considered interesting.
As the daughter of her father, she learned to be equal amongst equals, and to live with circumstances as she found them. These earnest physics studies in the GDR. This meant making cause with the conditions of an illegitimate state, as it has gone down in history. She could have studied Einstein, and been able to prove what is wrong with his theory. This could all have been done on the quiet, she could have gone down in history as a thinker, but instead she became a politician.

It must be difficult to serve a father who had the best of intentions; it must be difficult to renounce a father who could not always act according to his best intentions. Every girl suffers as the creation of a father. The eerie dignity of doll status dints the soul, forming cavities, where spooks lurk, to be determined for something indeterminable.
What a relief the political change in Germany must have been, how great the attraction of one's own recreation and rebirth! All anger at the world was forgotten, all revolutionary will turned in one direction, all strength of mind had but one objective: the world would have to understand that she was no longer a doll. She was now a girl, Kohl's girl. It must be difficult to follow a stepfather who promises success; it must be difficult to follow a stepfather who delivers success. The injured dignity of the doll helped the girl to set the seal to her character – that of a dogged cynic. How many long nights has she wept? How many pillows have felt her pain? How must she have hungered under the beneficence of her stepfather? And every day status demanded her humiliation to be brought to light. The measure of discipline caused by such soulful injury must be immeasurable. This was nevertheless accompanied by hope; she hoped that it would finally be recognised who she was. She wanted to hunger no longer, but to be satiated. She drew succour from the moment when she would be free of the stepfather. She then proclaimed to the world that its time had come. She took over at the wheel! The doll was now a woman. The revised image of the girl helped her to create the ultimate picture of herself, that of the calm hysteric.

As the circumstances dictated, as the throat rejects the bad seed, in a foundering Germany, and also in a suffering Europe, which is trying desperately to be a community, without having anything in common. The major effects inherent in politics correspond to the dynamism with which Sister Angela rules. It is difficult to hate her, although she wastes the wealth of the country, since all chancellors before her have done the same. It is difficult to hate her, although she insists on clinging to the Euro, a currency which produces more and more debt by the day. What would it mean if currency reform took place, would all debts be paid off, who would care, as long as the people can still be convinced that the CDU is strengthening the economy, as is repeatedly confirmed by surveys. It is difficult to hate her, although as a permanent asylum-seeker she has done no more for her former political supporters in the East of the country, who were happy to vote for her for two reasons: because they thought that Angela Merkel would provide more work and equality of wages in the East, and because all women hoped that with Angela Merkel would come a new period of equal opportunity; an achievement so-called by the Socialists, and would relieve all women of the East of their bad consciences, transferring to herself and thereby consigning to history the opening up of the border.
It must be clear that Angela Merkel has nothing to do with this. A Chancellor cannot concern herself with this. What does she care about the misfortune or good of the people? This has nothing at all to do with politics. She has an employment minister with many children in her Cabinet, and a pregnant minister. So much has changed already. No longer the same amongst equals!
Angela Merkel has succeeded in starting something right from her defeats, she has never rejected learning anything out of arrogance, she has never demonstrated what she cannot do.
She has long since outgrown the steering wheel of the luxury steamer 'West-CDU', as almost the divide itself. She is in control, although she naturally has enviers, people who want to tell her how things could be better, all of them clamouring interminably: Referendum, currency reform, fundamental changes in legislation. But ultimately: She did not invent the wheel, but simply turns it, like all those before and after her.