Do you know when you know you had a REALLY bad day?

- When at half past one at night you need to wash your face with mineral water because the whole house seems to have no water, your parents are on holiday and your grandma is sick.

THEN you had a really bad day ...

( English )

2009 a year of change, a year of political importance, a year of elections – One would guess that given it is such an important year for all political parties there would be bloody fight out there. With very smart and very informative election campaigns. One would guess, that there would be politicians out there passing laws that are constructive and representative for the very basic thoughts of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany .... One would guess.

The reality indeed looks somewhat different: A bunch of insecure and anxious parties, that are only focused to get the majority in the upcoming elections. Only on focused on how to make the other parties look the least strong and the most ridiculous, while forgetting to be advocates of freedome, equality and the Basic Law - Forgetting the basic idea behind an election campaign: Trying to convince the people why exactly they are supposed to vote for them, getting them to understand what is going on in the politics at the moment, getting them to understand why it is important to vote, getting them to understand that the government and politics is not something done by some higher standing people not influenced and in your hand at all.

As Abraham Lincoln said: Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. And this is what they should teach and try to achieve. This is what the should convince of us the are representatives of.

Instead of that we are getting election poster that claim use full things like: “Us in Europe”

What exactly is that supposed to tell us and why exactly is that meant to get me to vote for anyone. I am in Europe and I'm still going to be there, if I vote or not. Is that meant to tell me that I'm supposed to vote for them in the European Parliament election? It seems sort of obvious that this would be what every party wants from me and is still not telling me why exactly I'm supposed to do it. Does it mean that they are representing us in Europe? Well than I'm guessing they got something wrong, because I always thought that every party would have that task as soon as we vote them into the parliament.

Others try to attract us with simple paroles like: Europe-wide minimum wages, Freedom and Equality etc. That all seems a bit plain and minimalistic. I always thought that was what every party was trying to achieve? I thought it was about telling us how they would achieve things for us, how their plans look like and it actually means for me to get Europe-wide minimum wages.

But I guess telling me that they have plans is still better what again others parties seem to be doing. Looking at their election posters I'm not too sure whether or not they actually realised they are running an election campaign and not a very bad comedy show.

So we are getting to see sharks, hair dyers and coins as eye catchers accompanied by sayings like: “Hot air(hair dryer) would vote for 'Die Linken'”, “Financial-Sharks(hard to translate I hope you get the general idea) would vote for FDP” and “Dumpingwadges would vote for CDU”

That all sound very insecure and rather mean. Given that this is supposed to be a social party it only seems even more pathetic to me. Did they reach a point where they have nothing else to convince us with than salming others? I find that rather alarming. I do not want to be governed by a party that does not even know why they should be voted for.

Considering these lousy campaigns it does not surprise me that no one is actually interested in voting. I haven't ever heard one of them ever explaining why exactly it is important to vote, or explaining what is going on and why voting is useful for everyone. None of them ever told or explained to me what the European union is all about. So why should I be interested to vote for its parliament when I don't understand anything about it?

Would any of them make the effort and get people to know what it is all about, educate them about current events and affair in all honesty and convince people with plans and facts and for once be authentic I bet they would not even need to put up election posters. People would know that they are there for them. That they are there to help the people to form their own government and try to act for them as best as possible. People would know why they needed them and they would get their votes. They would crate a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

But then it seems like the Basic Law seems long forgotten and that people do not believe in freedom any longer – or how can it be that they are passing laws that approve of censorship, while making it compulsory to study English literature thematising dangers of that very thing. I can only assume they haven't ever read the books they make us read otherwise they would not even consider laws like this.

Closing websites and putting them on lists no one is allowed to inspect and without explaining why exactly they are forbidden. Without having to justify anything. That's censorship of the worst kind. There is no doubt that child pornography should be fought against and that it should be punished but not at the expense of freedom. Not by violating the basic law. Who stops them to ban websites they just don't like if there is no control? No justifying and secret lists? History has shown that getting control of the press and media by the government has always been the first step into the wrong direction. And Article 5 guarantees:

“Every person shall have the right freely to express and disseminate his opinions in speech, writing, and pictures and to inform himself without hindrance from generally accessible sources. Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by means of broadcasts and films shall be guaranteed. There shall be no censorship.”

So this is out of question. There is no turning around meanings and no playing with words. I know the next paragraph says: “These rights shall find their limits in the provisions of general laws, in provisions for the protection of young persons, and in the right to personal honour. “. But it's always the way it is done. It is the states duty to protect but not to control.

So what's the answer to all of this? I'm guessing all I can do is to use my right to vote and my right of petition. I have to inform myself even more and I have to share my thoughts ...
I might be wrong with all of this, and if this is they case I will admit it without hestitating but at least I'm honest and authentic. Something other people still have to learn