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It would be laughable if it weren't for howling.
As in a sale, the SPD tidies up in its own house: Everything has to go!
Now it even seems to have caught Wolfgang Thierse, the most loyal of the loyal Social Democrats.
Because he
criticized
not only the culture of hate from the right, but also a threatening
cancel culture
from the left, top social democratic politicians brutally distanced
themselves from
him.
He draws, it is said in a letter to the organization of queers, "a backward-looking picture of the SPD that disturbs your community, third parties, but also us".
One should be ashamed of the attitude that Thierse takes.
Not long ago it was the Greens who treated their deserving politicians - for example, members of the first hour - without respect.
Now the shrinking SPD is practicing this raw discipline.
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The Catholic Wolfang Thierse was a courageous man in the GDR and in 1976 refused to sign a declaration approving Wolf Biermann's expatriation.
Before the fall of the Wall, he turned to social democracy, was President of the Bundestag and head of the SPD's Fundamental Values Commission.
His East German otherness - for which he was nicknamed "Ossibär" - he has never hidden.
And he always warned of the risk of relapsing into authoritarian structures.
Even an intellectual, he stood and still stands for an SPD that is both: workers 'and teachers' parties.
The magic word is inclusion
One cannot believe the ruthlessness with which members of the SPD executive committee let down a long-serving comrade in order to make themselves dear to children in the queer milieu.
That is indecent.
And dumb.
In the past, the SPD mostly tried to be liberal, but also to represent those classes that were not at the forefront of changing values.
This concept was not only successful, but also correct.
Even if it wasn't in use at the time, the word for it is: inclusion.
That seems to be over on the way into the single-digit percentage range.
The saint of the "time", the smoker Helmut Schmidt, flew upright from the SPD today.