Reply #6: I'm German and I wouldn't know. BUT [View All]

we have conservatives, too. And I used to be a journalist. And wherever I worked: Guess who came visiting us in the office all the time smiling - and offering gifts? Guess who lied to the publisher when he didn't like what we wrote? Guess who said he wouldn't advertise anymore in the paper and his friends wouldn't either when we wrote something he didn't like? Guess who threatened that nobody would EVER advertise anymore and that the publisher would not get the medal he had "coming for him" if a certain too inquisitive editor wasn't kicked out? A conservative every single time.

And guess who just gave us a phone call every once in a while to just ask how we were doing? The Social Democrat of course. A really nice guy. Every Social Democrat I ever got to know was such a nice guy. No Social Democrat I ever met complained to the publisher. No Social Democrat I ever knew tried to use pressure. No Social Democrat I ever knew tried bribery. No Social Democrat I ever knew called the publisher when he was really fed up. And no Social Democrat I ever knew tried or even threatened to get his own newspaper going like the CDU ("Christian" Democrat Union) did time after time...

Compassion. That's what the Social Democrats went for - at least on the local and regional level. I love them for this. And I dislike them for this. Because the personal compassion that each and every one of them displayed was NOT for the good of the whole. A little more anger would have benefited us all - all of society - much more.