Dhe exaggeration of legal language shapes the appearance of the Federal Minister of Justice. In this language – technically trained, cooled down to the essence – all imponderables are always already lifted, inspected from a higher perspective, classified and approved. When the Federal Minister of Justice speaks, the sighing of the creature falls silent, the swaying of the points of view gathers in a stable perspective, one feels what the pre-existence of things is all about. In this language they are at home as thoughts long before they take shape in the phenomena.
When Marco Buschmann speaks, an FDP man speaks, yes, but as such he always embodies the iron sphere of the objective spirit, in contrast to which the presenter only seems to embody bustling excitement, just the individually dazzling subjective spirit, whose exaltations pass, how they came. Buschmann’s rhetoric of the higher point of view with a Gelsenkirchen touch makes Sandra Maischberger assume something uncontrollably waving, as if one had to take the editorially large and small alarm lettered by the hand and say to her: “Keep calm, Ms. Maischberger, stay calm! It’s not as devastating as you think. That only seems so to you in your journalistic need for drama.”
Question the moderator’s questions
So Buschmann’s soothing pedagogy begins in ever new turns, shaking his head and convicting the earthly Maischberger as externally controlled. Something like: “Well, Ms. Maischberger, to be honest, I don’t really understand the debate.” Or like this: “Ms. Maischberger, your question looks a bit like we just did that.” Or like this: “Ms. Maischberger , I think two things are linked here that don’t necessarily have anything to do with each other.”
And when the person who was personally punished in this way wanted to save herself by laughing and was shaken by laughter, Buschmann said: “No, Ms. Maischberger, I don’t even know why you’re laughing.” Ms. Maischberger’s laughter seemed to get stuck in her throat . Under the spell of Buschmann’s world spirit, she recognizes what is misplaced in all humor. “Now you have laughed for the first time,” she will say later. As if she had only been waiting for the Federal Minister of Justice to drop his legal terminology, his pre-emptive role.
Redeemer of Corona burdens
In cool blood, he captures Maischberger’s excitement a) about the legislative containment of Corona and b) about the petrol discount and what the consumer gets from it. The core statements, compared with the Weltgeist tenor: With the hot-spot regulation, measures are already possible at any time in the event of overload due to unforeseen infection dynamics; and if dangerous situations should arise that require immediate action, “then of course we’ll do it”. That’s why there is no need now, driven by the unrest spirit Lauterbach, to anticipate an orderly legislative procedure scheduled for September. A new edition of dysfunctional, psychosocially stressful measures does not have to be given, says Buschmann. One has learned how the granting of a piece of normality in the last few months has given people a bit of strength to continue to persevere in this pandemic.
Little by little, the minister checkmates the moderator. Ms. Maischberger, who is methodically urgent to tighten the corona measures “now!”, suddenly appears as a threat. Does it burden people with the burden that the Federal Minister of Justice would like to take off their shoulders, as he emphasizes in the perspective of the Redeemer?
Got away with weak tank discount defense
Buschmann also seems to refute the criticism of the petrol discount in no time at all by citing calculations by the Munich Ifo Institute, according to which the temporary tax reduction on fuel was “essentially” passed on to motorists. Buschmann ignores other scientific assessments that contradict this finding.
And Ms. Maischberger works into the minister’s hands when she ignores the fact that Ifo President Clemens Fuest questions the point of the tank discount, even though the majority of consumers get it. Because the mere arrival is apparently not important at all. Fuest correctly understands that the tank discount is not good for systemic reasons. “It benefits people with higher incomes and higher fuel spenders, not people with lower incomes.”
Maischberger did not have this message from the Ifo President on her screen, and that is why the Federal Minister of Justice got away with his circumscribed half-truths.
Once again, the legal language magician was able to exercise his rhetorical office unchallenged. What the hell? In his stillness lies our strength.
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