German IT guy wrote this yesterday. Had to share.
Just plugged the german text into DeepL and made a few improvements, hopefully the result is comprehensible.
We do not have a virus crisis. We have an incompetence crisis.
Hadmut
3.3.2020 19:52
A divergent viewpoint.
Virus here, virus there, virus this, virus that.
Everyone writes about the virus. Climate panic, Fridays for Future, murders of Hanau, suddenly everything doesn't matter anymore.
Earlier I passed a newspaper stand. Cover photo: "WORLD VIRUS CRISIS"
No.
We're not having a virus crisis.
We're having an incompetence crisis.
The model of letting some layman and incompetent party bigwig run politics has just reached its limits.
Since reunification, there hasn't really been anything important left to be dealt with seriously politically. The economy ran by itself, the conjuncture came together, and we could afford chancellor actors like Schröder and Merkel and their operetta governments, whose entertainment value did not match the costs, but was based on their internal frictions. We could afford Heiko Maas, for example, as Minister of Justice and Foreign Affairs, although he was only a joke in both. A scrapbook of a female doctor as Minister of Defence, a bank clerk as Minister of Health. A political scientist as digital minister. A textile designer as Internet ambassador.
A reader from the world of politics recently wrote to me - now from memory, I can't find the mail in the giant mountain of mail right away - that incompetence in politics is inherent in the system. If someone is newly elected as a Member of Parliament, for example, they do not get to where they would be competent or needed. In the appropriate committee or something like that. But where there is a vacancy.
Because there, where he would perhaps fit in well, another person has been sitting for one or two legislative periods, has built up his networks, positions of power, intrigues and so on, and also has more to say in the party, and he does not think about giving up the position he has built up and starting all over again somewhere else to make room for a more competent newcomer.
And four years later it is the same thing, only the other way round.
Similarly with secretaries of state and everything else.
And then, of course, quotas for women and migrants, and then of course which local association has the most power in the party, and who still owes whom and is in what rope team, who can blackmail whom and who has a compromate case.
Competence is, if at all, the very last criterion.
And not only does that happen, it has even been systematically abolished in favor of the promotion of women and migrants. Just like at the universities. Quality is a myth, they say, competence is only a social construct that could be controlled through discourse, and women must be able to enter the workforce directly at any time as career changers without any prior training or career path.
And finally, all the humanities scholars and social scientists want highly paid jobs, but apart from the area of law there is not much of a competence that could be used in any way. And even where one would expect competence from those, where one would say that they fit in exactly, there is total failure and zero competence. Wouldn't one have expected sociologists and cultural studies scholars to describe the problems and incompatibilities before the migration wave, instead of just reciting Marxism? That it doesn't work like that, to hire people from a different cultural area and educational environment just like you would with the pizza delivery service to appoint them as specialists and federal citizens, that it takes more than just getting used to different first names?
The last serious political activity was the reunification.
Since then, the shop has been running more or less on autopilot and European remote control, and we afford a government whose clownishness is still far below any Mardi Gras council. (At least they have something to laugh about.)
In almost 30 years we have got used to having the only duds in politics, and what is worse: the duds have got used to being duds.
There are a lot of crackpots and blabbers sitting there who seriously believe that the state budget is there to finance their personal fad with billions. The whole policy has degenerated into a hierarchical feeding trough, where every sow gets her under-sows to eat.
People have got used to this over 30 years, and many who have not known it for more than 30 years consider it normal. Part of the fun. Politics is like riding a merry-go-round, every child is allowed a ride. Every nut, no matter how stupid, is allowed to plunder the state treasury, chat stupidly into the camera and dabble around, fatten up the pension.
And now we come to places where it no longer works.
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[–] EnsignPossible ago
A con artist crisis. An EVIL crisis. God NEEDS to step in if you ask me, or evil WILL win, and IS winning currently. Good people are NOT set up to deal with EVIL.