The new heart is right-wing radical | EUROtoday

Kaum sind die Tränen der Enttäuschung über den Erlöser Sebastian Kurz getrocknet, gibt es in Österreich schon einen neuen Messias. Nach Kurz kommt Kickl. Der FPÖ-Jesus plakatiert auf strahlend weißem Hintergrund: Euer Wille geschehe. Und ganz wie sein Vorgänger redet auch er mit seinen Wählern wie mit kleinen Kindern. Der kleine Herbert erklärt ihnen die Welt. Dass früher in seiner Kindheit alles besser war. Da musste man die Haustür nicht zusperren, weil es keine bösen Ausländer gab.

Da konnte man im Park spielen, weil es keine sexuellen Belästigungen (von Ausländern) gab. Da konnte man sich das Leben leisten, weil die Ausländer keine Sozialleistungen bekamen. Man war nicht in der EU, wo die Ausländer den Ton angeben. In der Schule war früher auch alles besser, weil da keine Ausländer waren und man noch Disziplin, Höflichkeit und Ordnung lernte. Die Frauen standen am Herd und haben inländische Kinder mit eindeutigem Geschlecht geboren. Überhaupt sei man eine große Familie, und er, Herbert, sei der Papa, so weit im Originalton. So weit, so lieb.

Jetzt gehe es darum, dass alles wieder wird wie früher. Und da wird’s heikel. Denn wie macht man das? Abgesehen davon, dass es nie so war, wie Kickl seine Schlumpfkindheit herbeiphantasiert. Die Allzweckwaffe für alles heißt: Remigration. Wir erinnern uns, das ist jener Euphemismus für Vertreibung, der auch vor einer inländischen Staatsbürgerschaft nicht haltmacht. Menschen gewisser Rassen sind als unerwünscht und kriminell markiert. Und müssen weg. Auch wenn das verfassungsrechtlich nicht geht. Darauf sagt Kickl: Dann machen wir das trotzdem. Skandierende Massen: Herbert, Herbert, Herbert! Im neuen Faschismus ist man per Du.

Kickl calls himself the People's Chancellor. What's mistaken with Hitler calling himself that too? That means nothing aside from placing the folks above the Chancellor. Nobody has questioned the truth that folks put up posters saying “Fortress Austria” and are clearly quoting Goebbels. The identical goes for the reinterpretation of Europe as a time period of disgrace. Or foreigners as a synonym for criminals. What is right-wing extremist about that? That's all regular. That's what widespread sense (= the brand new cause) tells us. Kickl, he says, doesn't know any right-wing extremists. The Identitarians are a right-wing NGO. Right-wing radicals are the brand new heart. So far, every little thing is regular.

Despite the AfD, Austria continues to be forward of the sport in relation to the brand new regular. Firstly, the FPÖ has been a part of the federal government a number of instances. And has additionally been disillusioned a number of instances. For instance, below Kickl as Interior Minister, there have been extra asylum functions than below earlier governments. During Corona, he beneficial horse laxatives as an alternative of “vaccination madness”. We don't even need to discuss his ardour for fantasy uniforms. Kickl is rather a lot. But he’s positively not regular. But that doesn't appear to matter. On September 29, below his management, a right-wing extremist celebration will most likely come first and declare authorities for the primary time because the struggle within the German-speaking world.

Are Austrians actually the one ones who grow to be dumber with expertise? Possibly. Austrians are notably typically and notably loudly crying out for the storyteller who tells them an alternate actuality after which claims to implement it. Most of the time these forces have blown themselves up prematurely. Keyword “Ibiza”. But no person talks about that anymore. It's been 5 years and three chancellors. And this time issues look utterly completely different.

When you take into account that the National Socialists solely wanted 33.1 % to dissolve parliament and set up a dictatorship, you have to be cautious along with your poll paper. It might be the final time you see one. Hungary and Slovakia are main the way in which. Kickl and Höcke assume much more excessive, dreaming of measures that run counter to ethical sensibilities, a coverage of “well-tempered cruelty,” as Höcke says in his ebook. Goebbels as soon as stated: We will go down in historical past as the best criminals or as the best statesmen.

If you learn his diaries immediately, you recognize whose brainchild Kickl and Höcke are. The right-wing killing power is palpable all over the place. For instance: in 2022, there have been 481 religiously motivated acts of violence in Germany. This compares to 21,000 acts of violence by right-wing extremists, in keeping with Thomas Köck in his ebook “Chronicle of Ongoing Derailments”. This makes you surprise who you must be extra afraid of. Islamists or Nazis? The reply is apparent.

They have managed to normalize right-wing extremist positions and domesticate a violent citizens that’s separated from the remainder of society and votes for anti-democratic and authoritarian events out of full ideological conviction. The so-called firewall is crumbling, notably among the many conservatives. Soon, we will definitely be speaking about “extermination.” Many elements of the inhabitants can not really feel secure. I don't imply foreigners. I imply individuals who assume otherwise. People who, not like the right-wing, imagine that each one persons are of equal worth. How can we defend ourselves from these individuals who have lengthy wished to get us? Can the structure grow to be negotiable? Can we ever get these 30 % again?

First of all, it’s a world by which reality doesn’t matter. The various details are simply as invaluable because the details that don’t want an adjective as a result of they’re details. Alternative realities are completely different from lies. They are a collective fantasy world, an escapism that one wants as a result of one can not address actuality. One should “break” it. This too is actually authoritarian. Timothy Snyder says: “If you give up facts, you give up freedom. If nothing is true, no one can criticize power because there is no basis for it.” Facts are non-negotiable, verifiable truths.

The query is whether or not we wish a society by which politics is sanctioned if it doesn’t stick with the details. A reality police naturally sounds important. But in instances when journalism performs a lesser function than the gibberish of Musk, Trump and the like, we now have to consider new non-negotiable boundaries. Because the fundamental democratic settlement can not be relied upon. And sure: we perceive the cynical class wrestle behind it. The humiliation. The justified fears. We can criticize the “system parties” for his or her ignorance. But much more so for the truth that they consistently attempt to copy the problems of the fitting, thereby multiplying them and positively not making them disappear.

But now we even have to carry the voters accountable. Ultimately, there’s a nice weak spot behind all this authoritarian antics. Because democracy means being consistently prepared to barter, to resolve conflicts, and never at all times placing your personal opinion above every little thing else. Many persons are not as much as this. They find yourself behaving like little youngsters who’re crying out for a daddy who will repair every little thing. That is why persons are consistently invoking their very own childhood as a paradise. The little me-me-me. The atmosphere: simply materials that may be bent to at least one's benefit. You be taught that on social media, the place others are perceived as a simulation. That is why humiliation occurs so shortly. Or, to remain in Herbert Kickl's world: In the previous, in my childhood, folks weren’t so delicate. Perhaps additionally as a result of they didn’t take themselves so critically. As with youngsters, their very own will and desires come above every little thing else. The solely distinction is that youngsters will not be allowed to vote.

The dialogue about whether or not events just like the FPÖ and the AfD, which the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies as clearly right-wing extremist, ought to be banned is lengthy gone. What has not occurred, nonetheless, is to attract up a structure in such a approach that democracy can not abolish itself. One additionally wonders why solely symbols are included within the ban legislation and never phrases. Why are the People's Chancellor and the swastika not allowed?

In Austria, there isn’t a Kamala Harris who will emotionalize and say: We will not be going again to the despair earlier than Ibiza. Austrians rightly defend themselves from enthusiasm and like to take a position their power in complaining. But a little bit pathos wouldn’t harm. Because this election is about which nation we need to reside in. In one the place there’s air for everybody to breathe and everybody may be who they need to be, or in one which primarily sees the opposite as an enemy and is characterised by hatred and dictatorial concepts. It is about our freedom within the subsequent 20 years. And additionally about dealing with as much as issues reminiscent of local weather change and digitization within the labor market and never suppressing them with political gibberish and pretending that none of this exists.

Many folks stay silent as a result of they’re already grieving. They are grieving for the enjoyment of life, the free spirit, the tradition of debate and European hedonism. But they’re additionally grieving for a Europe that they themselves idealize. Because the fundamental European values ​​are colonial in nature. We needn’t be below any illusions about that. Basically, each European is a racist at coronary heart. It is just not for nothing that Kickl places up posters saying: “Your hearts say YES.” This too, by the way in which, is borrowed from Goebbels. But what does that matter?

The director and writer David Schalko (most just lately: “Kafka”) recommends the wonderful ebook “Chronicle of Ongoing Derailments” (Suhrkamp, ​​26 euros) by Thomas Köck for additional examine, from which he took a number of statistics and quotations.