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Originally Posted by Bewolf
No basis for complaints as long one does not get active oneself. But I seriously hate the ways one has to go to become a polititian here.
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Being a politician is no longer a vocation or duty being followed. It has turned into a regular job. People want to make a career by it, and in it. That'S why politicvians cannot imagine to ever get voted out of their job again, and are so creative in finding ways to fall the ladder upwards even if loosing elections. They do not serve. They think the political stage around them is for serving themselves. No modesty in their acting, therefore, no humbleness: upwards your career must go! No sense of fulfilling an overriding duty. Some of the old Prussian virtues gone, is really a loss. When Schmidt after his chancellorship, during which he vcertainly was not short of a certain cold-mouthed arrogance, was offered the Bundesverdienstkreuz - he rejected it, saying that fulfillment of duty deserves and needs no rewards - else it wouldn't have been a duty.
Career managers - that's what we have.