- English description: Caption:The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956). -- Whenever politics fails in managing real problems (unemployment, decay of public school buildings, miserable results in educational system, birth rates downturns and decay of family structures, immigrational and disintegrational conflicts and so forth) it turns to artificial ones. On green signs, left to right: Climate is fault of humans -- Child porn "industry" -- Viruses H5N1, BSE, SARS, AIDS, HPV -- Computergames. On red fire streams, left to right: cashing up, governing, patronizing, indoctrinating -- Barricading the internet at all, censoring, filtering -- slaughtering contaminated animals, inoculating (by hook or by crook), cashing up, nationalizing -- prohibiting, inventing reasons for gun rampages, censoring, supervising. Persons, left to right some german federal ministers: Sigmar Gabriel, environment -- Ursula von der Leyen, family, saying: Ohmygosh, now I have one, too!-- Ulla Schmidt, health -- Wolfgang Schaeuble, interior.
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