Kategorie: Democrazy

From Democracy to Simulation: What is Happening in Germany? It is a paradoxical spectacle currently unfolding in Germany: while democratic rituals are being ever more loudly celebrated in the name of democracy, that very democracy is increasingly losing its substance. The sovereign—the electorate—is still allowed to vote, but no longer truly decides. Democratic participation is reduced to a process propped up by illusions, in which outcomes are predictable, coalitions predetermined, and alternatives systematically excluded. The Republic has, without openly stating it, transformed into a simulation of democracy. The most visible sign of this erosion is the so-called firewall (Brandmauer)—a term originally intended to serve political hygiene, but which has since ossified into dogma. What b…