{"id":441,"date":"2023-02-03T20:05:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T19:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/sprechen\/?p=441"},"modified":"2023-02-03T20:56:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T19:56:11","slug":"whats-wrong-with-frankfurt-am-main","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/sprechen\/whats-wrong-with-frankfurt-am-main\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s wrong with Frankfurt am Main"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The taste of smear campaign against the former Frankfurt mayor Peter Feldmann ist obvious. Politicians from the federal level, in comparison, don&#8217;t get much investigation into the cases the&#8217;re involved into and people react with less suspicion about them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fr.de\/frankfurt\/frankfurt-ex-ob-peter-feldmann-spd-austreten-parteiaustritt-abwahl-korruption-zr-92066521.html\">Feldmann leaves the SPD<\/a> in disspointment. Not all is well with local level of politics, as many of us know, and Frankfurt is a place where many &#8222;interests&#8220; meet. What is shameful though is the mobbing mentality of many Frankfurt citizens, left to right.<\/p>\n<p>Just how ridiculous was turning a scene on social media after a soccer win for the &#8218;Eintracht Frankfurt&#8216; into a big &#8222;as if it was politically relevant&#8220;-thing. Something that some people considered an undueful behaviour was getting more attention than actual political activity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The taste of smear campaign against the former Frankfurt mayor Peter Feldmann ist obvious. Politicians from the federal level, in comparison, don&#39;t get much investigation into the cases the&#39;re involved into and people react with less suspicion about them &#8230; 1\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; pal @ Gruppe Messel (@tiersoziologien) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tiersoziologien\/status\/1621578385897000961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I tweeted about this before:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">Warum viele Frankfurter wirklich peinlich und unangenehm hexenjagdsmentalit\u00e4tsm\u00e4\u00dfig r\u00fcberkommen: Sie tun so, als w\u00e4re Herr Feldmann (@OBPeterFeldmann) der einzige B\u00fcrger Frankfurts je gewesen, der vermeintlich ! und \u00fcberhaupt in irgendwelche Seilschaften verquickt sein k\u00f6nnte. 1\/<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; pal @ Gruppe Messel (@tiersoziologien) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tiersoziologien\/status\/1592970532965650434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Why many Frankfurters come across embarrassingly and unpleasantly witch-hunt-mentality-like: they act as if Mr. Feldmann (@OBPeterFeldmann) was the only citizen of Frankfurt ever who could supposedly and at all be entangled in any connections of advantage taking.<\/p>\n<p>You only have to scratch the paint a bit in the city&#8217;s history and present. And I would say that the corruption goes, as in many places, from the very top to the very bottom, and largely across the board.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The tactic seems to visibly be to cover each other broadly, and to normalize, with each other, such a spiteful behavior. In such a way that it passes not as *bullying* but as a kind of &#8222;righteous indignation&#8220;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">Man muss in der Stadtgeschichte und -gegenwart nur ein bisschen am Lack kratzen. Und ich behaupte mal: Die Korruptheit geht, wie mancherorts, von ganz oben bis ganz unten, und weitestgehend quer durch die Bank. 2\/<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; pal @ Gruppe Messel (@tiersoziologien) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tiersoziologien\/status\/1592970622107541505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The taste of smear campaign against the former Frankfurt mayor Peter Feldmann ist obvious. Politicians from the federal level, in comparison, don&#8217;t get much investigation into the cases the&#8217;re involved into and people react with less suspicion about them. Feldmann leaves the SPD in disspointment. Not all is well with local level of politics, as&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/sprechen\/whats-wrong-with-frankfurt-am-main\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Weiterlesen<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s wrong with Frankfurt am Main<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,30],"tags":[25,35,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/sprechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/sprechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/sprechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/sprechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/sprechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/sprechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/sprechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/sprechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/sprechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/sprechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/sprechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}