20. Juni 2020

Democracy lives from diversity of opinion. This phrase has been used so often in the past that it now seems like a cliché. But it is not, because the diversity of opinion in question is part of a process that should ideally lead to a balance that produces the compromises that can unite the interests of the majority of the population. At least that is how the basic idea can be described. This diversity of opinion always includes militant extremes, dangerous excesses and also plain nonsense. [..]