We only borrowed the earth from our children
, proclaimed an alleged Indian wisdom - oh pardon, it must of course be the wisdom of the indigenous people of America, thanks for the tip of the language police, I'll never do it again, great Indian honor - on the posters of the Greens for the 1983 federal election. 5.6 percent of voters saw it that way too, and the unstoppable rise of today's 20 percent party began, which dominated the discourse thanks to a wide range of friends and supporters.
Size makes you self-confident: last week, for example, the Greens in Munich, as the strongest faction in the Munich City Council, called for a "standard speed" of 30 km / h in the urban area without discussing this with coalition partner SPD.
The reacted accordingly sniffed.
The elderly among us will still remember that the Greens in particular actually founded a party that wanted to break the rules and end them.