Schnitzel Republic: Assessing Leadership

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Assessing Leadership

The German leadership 'faces' that you normally now see are:

1. Bavarian Premier-President Soder (CSU)

2. German Minister of Labor Heil (SPD)

3. German Minister of Finance/Vice Chancellor Scholz (SPD)

4. German Minister of Agriculture Klockner (CDU)

5. German Minister of the Economy Altmaier (CDU)

6. NRW Premier-President Laschet (CDU)

7. Baden-Wurettemberg Premier-President Kretschmann (Green Party)

8. Health Minister Spahn (CDU)

You will notice....I didn't list Chancellor Merkel. First, she never does the one-on-one interviews.....but she will appear on rare occasions for the full scale press conferences. Second, other than getting people to a decision process and getting two groups to agree....that's been her only real contribution other than pep-talks.

These are the political figures that you will see almost daily....chatting on the crisis and impacts. Even in one-on-one journalistic interviews with hard questions thrown....most of this group has performed well (especially Spahn as the Health Minister).

What you generally see from polls now is that both the CDU and SPD have bumped up on public numbers, and both look really great now for the 2021 national election.

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About the Collection of Essays

First, note that this is NOT a blog....it's a collection of essays similar in nature to what the Greek Plutarch attempted to write.

Second: NO, there will be no Facebook connection to the essay collection. Besides the negativity with FB, there is just too much potential in the future for censorship with FB.

Third, this log of essays is written by an American (not a German). If you are a German seeking commentary written by a German, on Germans....look elsewhere.

Fourth, I will offer wit and sarcasm on Germany, Germans, Germanology, German political figures, German TV, German beer, German food, German humor (or lack of), German habits, German weirdness, German news, German autos, German brilliance, German stupidity, German customs, German Nazis, German history, and German stubbornness.

Fifth (new), the essays are not about ethnic pathways to your grandfather or great-grandmother who was German. It relates present day Germans. If you are trying to get some understanding to your ancestor who packed up and left sixty years ago from the old 'homeland', then this blog is probably not for you.

I was one of those Americans who did over twenty years of military time....married a German....and eventually returned as a retiree.

I'm one of the few who stood under the German umbrella.....paid German taxes for some years.....German social security.....and felt the various pains like Germans.

So, this is my all-purpose commentary essay, designed for non-Germans mostly (and those Germans who accidentally discover it). I tend to put German culture into the spotlight of sarcasm, wit and humor. I'm simply pointing out the richness and craziness of life in Germany, which even some Germans can't understand.

The amusing thing is that I'm merely repeating the exercise that Mark Twain performed in 1880, when he published "A Tramp Abroad". Various comments were dished out on the Germans....which apparently did not trigger any wars, chaos, climate change, or ill feelings.

Final note: I generally only delete comments that are spam-related, or hype over pure Nationalist Socialist agendas. I generally won't support one-sided arguments/agendas. I also don't think accusations of racism or nationalism are generally proven, and can reflect poorly upon the person making the accusations.