Julian Nida -Rümelin for the Bundestag election: Views of a centrist

There are currently too many people who are so convinced of the correctness of their own opinions that they consider every discussion to be superfluous. This threatens democracy.

Although centrists have had a bad reputation since Macron’s second term at the latest, I am committed to being one. After developing into a convinced Democrat, Thomas Mann explained: “I am a person of balance. If the boat threatens to capsize to the left, I automatically lean to the right. And vice versa. ”The undoubtedly most important center was Aristotle. His Mesotes-the apprenticeship states that the mean between two extremes is the reasonable. Even if he can give numerous convincing examples, such as economy as the middle between the stinginess and the addiction, he is only limited.