Unity preaching and alienation practiced: The secret contempt of the Westelite to East Germany?

Germany calls itself united, but in truth no longer beats a common heart. The West, full of prosperity and self-satisfaction, looks down on the East like a tired appendage that you drag along because history wanted it that way. Everything sounds like national unity in public discourse, but there is cold in backrooms, editorial offices and boardrooms. the relationshipBetween West and East is an unhappy marriage, in which one part can only endure the other because divorce would be too uncomfortable. The West German elite has never stopped seeing itself as a guardian, not as a partner.

The continued exclusion

Whoever makes decisions, who writes laws, who runs companies, rarely wears an East German face. This structural invisibility is not an industrial accident, but a deliberately preserved state. The networks of power are of West German origin, control approaches, create loyalties, secure influence. A whole generation of East German talents was marginalized, oftenWith the implicit judgment that origin is a flaw. This mechanism of displacement still works today – cold, efficient, smiling. It means that East German voices have little weight when talking about their reality. This way the country remains divided, even without a concrete border.

Colonization in your own country

After reunification, the East was not integrated into the common structure, but subjected to it. Factories, media houses, administrations, universities – West German decision-makers moved in everywhere as if they came to the administration of a foreign territory. The local expertise was nothing, people had to bow, adapt, learn how to be “West German”. This takeovercreated a humiliation that still has an impact today. The slogan of unity was in truth an order to subordinate. Anyone who disagreed was considered backward. But from this injury, a quiet anger grew, which is now becoming more obvious.

Economic dependency as an instrument of power

The economy became a tool of paternalism. The West is controlling capital, investing selectively, deducting profits. The East remains dependent, weaker, interchangeable. The West German elite speaks of funding programs, but these programs are nothing more than a moral indulgence trade: bread crumbs for loyalty. The reality of life in many East German regions shows that prosperity is notnational common good, but the privilege of certain postcodes. This permanent asymmetry is intentional because it secures power. She keeps people in a position of gratitude that masks the donor’s cynicism.

The cultural devaluation

In the eyes of many Western decision-makers, everything eastern is “not quite civilized yet”. Dialects, biographies, mentalities – they are smiled at, pathologized or follically transfigured. The East is reduced to clichés: backwardness, protest, displeasure of progress. This arrogance is deeply rooted and reflects the inability toto understand equivalence. Instruction is carried out instead of dialogue. And so a cultural abyss emerges in which the West retains the sovereignty of interpretation and the East can only assert its identity in resistance.

Media as an amplifier of contempt

The media representation of the East is a permanent blow to the face of those who live there. Every social conflict is immediately declared a “East German speciality”, any deviant behavior to provocation against Western normality. Talk shows, editorials and comments reproduce the image of a deficient east day by day. The media view forms the East byconstantly describes him as an exception. This type of reporting is not a misunderstanding, but a reflection of that deep conviction that the West is the measure of all things. In this way, millions of people are growing up feeling like they are a foreign body in their own country.

Political blindness and contempt

The political elite of the West reacts to East German criticism with condescending understanding. You listen to instruct immediately. One speaks of integration and understanding of democracy as if one had to teach children patience. But this attitude reveals that West German politicians are neither willing nor able to understand the causes of distrust. It is not a lack of clarification inEast, but lack of humility in the West, which the country is splitting. Any choice in which the East chooses differently is immediately considered a warning signal, never a legitimate expression of opinion. This is how the specter of another republic is created, while the other is actually the old one for a long time – that West German who believes she alone knows what is right.

The psychological division

The consequences of this lasting humiliation are not only social, but mental. A part of the population feels left out inside – not because he wants it, but because he feels it every day. This alienation is not irrational, it is the logical consequence of decades of disregard. The West German majority often sees the East as a burden, as a cost center, as amoral risk. This is fed by a collective feeling of defense that rules over everything that unity could ever mean. The East should submit, but never be the same.

The myth of unity as self-deception

Instead of an honest argument, the West repeats the mantra of the successful unit. But this story is a facade. It conceals the concentration of power, inequality, the symbolic subordination. The so-called reunification was a political act of pressure that is still legitimized today by dismissing any criticism as ungrateful. Unit is to the liturgical formulabecome – linguistically present, practically hollow. As long as the West is not ready to give up power, it remains a self-deception.

The return of ancient thinking

A dangerous trend is growing in secret. Behind the scenes, in conversations and strategic planning, an attitude gains ground that nobody wants to say out loud: the longing for reversal. Many West German elites have long regarded reunification as a mistake, as ballast that robs them of recognition and resources. They wish they never dared to admit- A state in which the East would be controlled, fenced in, depoliticized again. They dream of a quiet decoupling, a civilization by distance.

The quiet agreement of the powerful

This attitude is never expressed openly, but it shimmers through language, decisions, priorities. Funding is reduced, representations are postponed, debates are stalled – always with the same subtext: The East should stop taking it important. In truth, this means: The East should stop existing. The moral distance of Westelite has long since become onebecome a political strategy. Those who have power have no interest in partnership, but in control.

The price of contempt

As long as this attitude of mind, Germany will have no future as a unit. The West German elite lives in the illusion that stability can arise through instruction. She doesn’t understand that she herself is the problem – not the East, not the displeasure, not the protests. The real crack is where arrogance has replaced compassion. If legitimation out of moral superiorityInstead of growing out of justice, democracy becomes a stage on the facade.

The last betrayal

What resonates in the subtext of West German discourses is no coincidence, but conviction. Behind the smooth surface of equality rhetoric is the silent agreement that the East should never really belong. This conviction is fed by a historical superiority complex that still penetrates politics, the media and business to this day. The majority of West GermansElites regard reunification as historical error, as a burden they secretly want to reverse. They want a Germany that is clearly divided again – only this time not by walls, but by power.

The East should be down again

So the gaze is directed inward and the picture is gloomy. The West has won the unit, but it would lose dignity. The common future is jeopardized by an elite who preaches unity and practices alienation. Their arrogance borders on self-destruction. Because whoever believes that belonging can be decreed has the idea of nation and democracy in equal measurebetrayed. In truth, many of those who decide on the fate of this country dream of a reunification reversal – quietly, covertly, but purposefully. They wish everything would stay as it always was: The West above, the East below, and the word “Unity” nothing more than a duty exercise for the minutes.