On Beck and the left-handed child

German politics are like kindergarten these days:
"Don't play with that obnoxious kid!" - "You said you wouldn't play with him!" - "Look, he wants to play with that eerie kid!" - "You are a cheater!" - "Bah!" And so on.

What has actually happened? A new kid joined the crowd, left-handed and of doubtful upbringings, and everyone's trying to redline him and hopes that he'll just go away again. But this kid is here to stay. So, live with it. Bitching around and mobbing won't do. After all, this isn't kindergarten anymore. At least it's not supposed to be.

The only really arguable thing about this matter is the premature determination all the other kids displayed when they first heard that someone new would be joining their playground. Now one of them is losing his face, apparently, and all the others yell at him. And he well deserves a beating - for showing the wrong determination at the wrong time in the wrong place. But not for trying to make the best out of the situation now at hand. Reality won't go away if you just ignore it or scream at it long enough - although you might get the impression that this is exactly the way German politics work: If you can't beat it, ignore it.
And never mind the people who put the new kid in there, i.e. the voters or the voter's will. They obviously are wrong, but too stupid to tell, so they must be told. And there goes the whole hullabaloo again.

The child Beck might get a beating. But at least he's trying to change his approach to reality for once. That's more than the rest of the crowd seems to be capable of.

"But he may not use my toys!" *Sigh.*