By Gunnar Schupelius
The blockers present themselves as lone fighters against the supremacy of the state. In truth, they are marching side by side with the elites, says Gunnar Schupelius.
The highway blockers of the “Last Generation” group like to present themselves as descendants of Robin Hood. As if they were fighting all alone against a superior power, i.e. against the state and its institutions, which are leading the whole world to ruin through their negligent policies.
That sounds heroic, but on closer inspection this self-drawn picture is deceptive. Because the climate stickers speak the same language as the powerful and their catastrophe scenario is also the same.
“We are on the highway to climate hell,” said UN Secretary-General Guterres at the start of the world climate conference on November 6 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. And Annette Kurschus, the supreme representative of the Evangelical Church in Germany, believes that “the possibility of human life is being jeopardized” at the moment. The Federal Government strikes a very similar note, in the form of Economics Minister Habeck (Greens) and Environment Minister Lemke (Greens).
However, not only does the same interpretation of climate change as the end of the world remain, the institutions openly support the Kleber. A 23-year-old blocker was invited to the annual conference (synod) of the Evangelical Church on November 8 and received a standing ovation.
Or let’s take this scene from June in Berlin: The mayor of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Clara Hermann (Greens), went to an occupied intersection on Frankfurter Allee. While the citizens, whose interests she is supposed to represent, stood powerless in traffic jams, she paid homage to the blockers.
The “Last Generation” breaks the law every day and harms hundreds of thousands of Berliners, but the government’s protests remain muted or even non-existent. One is far too close to the Kleber to really want to vigorously condemn them.
So the question arises, against whom the climate blockers are actually fighting? Not against the UN, because they feel vindicated there. Not against the churches either, because that’s where they’re celebrated. Not even against the Berlin Senate, because at most they say “You, you!” Against the federal government? The climate stickers have many allies there too.
Their fight is actually against the normal people in the cars or in the picture gallery. They are supposed to be worn down in traffic jams or unsettled by throwing potato soup at the work of art.
The climate stickers are not Robin Hood’s grandsons, but a green militia who want to force people to behave in ways they see fit. Nobody chose her. They are paid by millionaires. They aren’t heroes, they don’t swim against the tide at all.
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