Moving into the house - furniture, moving, setting up

When I listen to the nonsense of the CSU on the radio this morning, we are as far away from a social consensus as from here to the next galaxy.

You misunderstand me. The consensus I mean consists of a critical mass of purchasing(!) power people worldwide.

Nobody gives a damn about the opinion of a meager 82 million Germans. Even less important is anything the CSU says. It would be the same even if a model democracy ruled here (which it does not).
There is no national election decision that can influence major global trends. We can decide on the appearance of our inner cities and how we want to get along with our neighbors.
But whether we want to share our data and what is done with it is simply beyond our control—unless one goes into exile as a hermit. Social participation today necessarily means standing with at least your feet in the data pool. And because especially younger people say, "Oh well, then I might as well dive in completely," the world will quite rapidly continue to shift towards a global data sharing economy. Whether a majority in Germany agrees with that or not is completely irrelevant.

You misunderstand me.

I don't think so. We are absolutely in agreement on that. I just wanted to make fun of the kind of Stone Age mentality that the CSU is currently out of touch with.

Find the Stone Age mindset absolutely absolutely right.

I think the Stone Age mentality is absolutely right.

Yes, the problem is, nobody gives a damn. The new technology is coming without asking.

I think the Stone Age mentality is absolutely right.

And? Even if every single German voter saw it that way and voted accordingly in elections, it would not matter.

( Emperor Wilhelm at the invention of the automobile: "The horse will remain irreplaceable." )

The CSU pretends to be the party of saddlers. How many Germans consider this dinosaur roaring to be correct does not interest the world: Not at all.

My complete agreement with kaho674 surprises me myself

(Kaiser Wilhelm at the invention of the automobile: "The horse will remain irreplaceable.")

I still find the horse irreplaceable – but the reasons are completely different.

My complete agreement with kaho674 surprises even me

Not me. Just because you disagree once doesn’t mean you have to do so fundamentally. Also such a Stone Age way of thinking.