{"id":342,"date":"2009-04-08T13:34:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T12:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2009-04-08T13:34:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T12:34:12","slug":"election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/2009\/04\/08\/election-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Election day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Germany’s next election day lies still quite a bit in the future (sometime in September), but the discussion about “Politikverdrossenheit” (disenchanted with politics) has already started in the media. Today I was proven right<\/a> (German,\u00a0 automated translation<\/a>) that my “Politikverdrossenheit” is actually not based on a lack of interest on these topics or a general misunderstanding, but more on a disillusionment of what is going on “up there” and what a single individuum can actually do in this country. Of course there is always something what can be done, after all I wouldn’t be active in the David vs Goliath challenge the Working Group against Data Retention<\/a> faces, but still, big moves or radical political changes (for good, not for bad) just don’t seem to be possible here.<\/p>\n

While I don’t envy the US americans for their past eight years of Bush and all the other problems they have, I’m certainly envious of them about their current president Obama. I wonder if somebody like Obama would even get as high in the political triangle in one of the countries of the “old world” – I’m sure that there are a lot of good, political driven people here as well which could do a similar good job, but I doubt they’d ever get the chance to “run for chancellor”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Germany’s next election day lies still quite a bit in the future (sometime in September), but the discussion about “Politikverdrossenheit” (disenchanted with politics) has already started in the media. Today I was proven right (German,\u00a0 automated translation) that my “Politikverdrossenheit” is actually not based on a lack of interest on these topics or a general … Continue reading Election day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-retention","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}