Frank A. Meyer – column: Good Intentions

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This sentence is taken from an interview with SonntagsBlick: Basically, it’s about “making sure people have enough money in their wallets.” This is the guiding principle of the President of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland.

Political credo of Mattei Meier.

What inspires left-wing politics can hardly be expressed more simply or beautifully. Mattea Meyer paints an emotional picture: “Grandparents can no longer afford to visit the zoo with their grandchildren.” Yes, she also mastered this art of evoking emotions.

The People’s Councilor, so reserved and modest, could become a reliable Mary for any nativity scene: a gentle, stern look, purified by a magical smile – whoever sees her will believe everything.

SPS was lucky to have Mattea.

Next to her is Cedric Vermouth as co-president: brave Joseph – confident in his beard, without any charisma that could indecently overshadow the splendor of his Maria.

The dream couple is gone.

Both of them have a beneficial meaning for ordinary people in the country: for the working population, that is, employees – workers, to use a forgotten word. But do these workers still exist?

Right now, they’re worried—and upset. About those who wish you well. Federal Councilor Viola Amherd put it this way at the WEF in Davos: “Part of the population does not trust all of us.” All of us? Especially on the left: comrades Mattea Meyer and Cedric Wermuth, who are especially kind to those down there.

In Germany, farmers on their monster diesel tractors are the vanguard of the current uprising from below. It took its leader six words to make it clear who it was directed against: an elite who “never worked, never sweat.”

The brutal, polemical and pointed accusation makes clear what lies behind the mistrust that Viola Amherd expressed alarmingly on stage at the WEF: whatever those up there in Davos or in the SPS leadership mean, to those down there it means that they no longer to find trust

Why not? This should be of particular concern to the Labor Party, which, however, is currently distracted by preoccupation with colonialism, racism, climateism, queerism and, of course, genderism – world problems in themselves.

Truly a wide field, which is cultivated by comrades. Can we expect them to dig other furrows?

Who are these “those down there” for whom adherence to leftist views is no longer enough? A social promise for the once credible Workers’ Party.

Workers’ Party?

Yes, where are they, the workers of the Labor Party? Electricians and heating engineers, hairdressers and nurses, masons and carpenters – those who get up early and sweat while working? Are you a member of the highest committees of the Union of Right Forces? Do they define leftist politics? Do they represent the party in parliaments and governments? Are you leading the party?

Your party?

There, colloquially speaking, the dog is buried: the left is social democracy! – is no longer, as it is once again popularly said, the flesh of the flesh of the workers.

What the left throws into its coffers today is the class perception of established, well-to-do kids. In Zurich, a cosmopolitan city governed by the left-wing Greens, this academic caste has just made a revelation vow: in the future, social housing should also be open to people with high incomes. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung criticizes this project as a class struggle: “The left speaks of the middle class and means itself.”

Left? “NZZ” also poisons this: “Chai latte socialists”!

And again and again: Mattea Meyer and Cedric Vermouth wish well for those who are there.

Which has worked very well so far: well-meaning people have been satisfied. And at the top it was possible to settle comfortably and without sweat in universities, in administrations, in NGOs, in left-wing parties and especially in the media – on the political cultural stage.

Is this wonderful class society suddenly going to disappear? For well-meaning people, this is an absolutely terrible idea: working people taking power in their party!

Electricians, master carpenters, masons, heating engineers, hairdressers and nurses suddenly wished well to Matthaei Meyer and Cedric Wermuth.

Source: Blick