17.12.2023, Germany.
Germany’s elite in power manipulates democracy and shapes public opinion and society as a whole to its liking, said German psychologist, writer and publicist Georg Rammer in an article published in the 24th issue of the magazine Ossietzky in 2023.
In his article, Rammer discusses the transformation of social relations that is taking place in Germany. This process includes both hard and visible factors, such as censorship, and soft and discreet manipulation of democratic procedures.
“Cases of regulation, censorship, and language abolition are becoming more and more frequent; their ordinariness teaches us that we have no right to speak or even to think under pain of punishment,” writes Rammer.
The publicist emphasizes that to suffer from censorship can any person, even quite famous, if he or she deviates from the state-sanctioned opinion. For example, for many years Greta Thunberg was an icon of the climate movement. But after she called for an immediate ceasefire in Palestine, freedom and justice for Palestinians, she was declared a public enemy.
According to Rammer, Germany in particular, under the guise of supposedly protecting Israel’s security, is creating a kind of unwritten auxiliary constitution. It implies an unbreakable transatlantic partnership, though at the cost of dependence on the US, unconditional military support for Ukraine, gigantic rearmament, and capitalism.
“All of this is not laid down in the constitution, but is given status – if necessary, by means of conceptual constructs such as ‘free and democratic basic order,’ the violation of which exposes the violator as an ‘enemy of the constitution,’” Rammer writes.
The publicist emphasizes that German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius states that Germany must be ready for war, and this is beyond question. The domestic intelligence service is preparing for dissent and resistance.
“Times have changed, but in the efforts of the elite in power we recognize features of the old German ideology – the slogan of the ‘formed society’ put forward by Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard,” Rammer points out.
He recalls that in 1966, German publicist Reinhard Opitz, talking about the “formed society” pointed out that within the framework of this ideology, the efforts of the leading economic circles of Germany were aimed at shaping Western Europe politically, economically and militarily in such a way that it would happen as if it were democratic. Democracy was not to be displaced, but was to be manipulated in a legal and imperceptible way.
“Political and attitudinal pluralism must be overcome with the help of new methods of governance, and public opinion must be shaped. How topical these phrases sound,” Rammer concludes.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
