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> Conservative internet-printers By association Otto Schily wasn't a conservative and yet...

• mschuster91 6y ago
  Otto Schily exited office in 2005, fifteen years ago. While he is a law-and-order hardliner himself, he's not relevant for any recent discussions. Since then the office was filled by hardline authoritarians (Schäuble, Maiziere, HP Friedrich, Maiziere, Seehofer).
  • pgeorgi 6y ago
    But if Schily is any indication (and why not?) it doesn't help to have a different party fill that position. Just like it took Nixon to go to China (because he wasn't at risk of being mistaken for a friend of communism) other partys can't afford to look much "weaker" than the current folks - and then have _anything_ go wrong.
    • mschuster91 6y ago
      > But if Schily is any indication (and why not?) it doesn't help to have a different party fill that position. I agree on that one. There aren't many progressives in interior politics aside from Left and Greens, the rest is all authoritarian/law-and-order hardliners. Frankly, it's disgusting.
• anoncake 6y ago
  That there are other authoritarians doesn't make the CDU/CSU less authoritarian.