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Explanation and justification

Institutions are created for people – not the other way around.
But in times of crisis, we regularly experience the opposite:
Instead of thinking, examining and acting independently, many people cling to authorities, expert councils and supranational organizations as if they were a superior truth.
They delegate responsibility upwards – and hope for security through obedience.

But blind faith in institutions has nothing to do with trust – it is an expression of fear, of comfort and often also of an education in dependency.
Yet history shows this time and again:
Even large institutions make mistakes. And sometimes they fail dramatically.

When institutions become substitute religions

In the modern age, churches have lost influence – but new belief systems have taken their place:
The Robert Koch Institute, the WHO, the CDC or EMA are now considered the final authorities in many debates.
What is decided there is considered incontestable – even if previous wrong decisions have long been documented.

Examples?

• In 2009, the WHO declared a global pandemic due to mild swine flu – under pressure from advisory bodies with pharmaceutical interests.
• For years, the RKI advised against masks – then against compulsory masks – then against a combination of masks – then against multiple boosters.
• The CDC defended erroneous data on vaccine safety – and later had to admit that myocarditis and pericarditis “may have been underreported”.

And yet:
Anyone who publicly addressed these contradictions was considered a “denier”, a “swearer” or “lacking in solidarity”.
Criticism thus became heresy – and error became the method.

What personal responsibility really means

• Don’t believe everything just because it comes from above. Authority is no substitute for truth.
• Weigh up decisions yourself – with reason, emotion and conscience, not with fear or peer pressure.
• Take responsibility for your own life instead of externalizing guilt and solutions.
• Courage to be uncomfortable when institutions contradict themselves or fail.
• Check for yourself, even if it’s exhausting – because otherwise others will decide the consequences for you.

When “solidarity” becomes a weapon

In authoritarian systems, oppression happens through coercion.
In modern democracies, it often happens through moral pressure – in the name of solidarity.
But if solidarity is not voluntary but enforced, it is no longer a virtue – but an instrument of subjugation.

Solidarity that is not based on togetherness, but on obedience,

• does not tolerate any deviation,
• knows no exception,
• demands collective conformity,
• and makes the individual responsible for the consequences of institutional errors.

This is why the individualization of people must always take precedence over collectivist egalitarianism.
Collectivism has never been a protection for people in history – it has almost always been a tool for their oppression.

In such moments, an inalienable right is needed:
The right to resist.

A genuine, protected, respected right –
not as the last nail in the coffin of history,
but as a fundamental cultural principle:
Anyone who sets conscience against order must not be declared an enemy.
Anyone who accepts responsibility must not be punished for failing to act.

Because:
True solidarity begins with respect for the decision of the individual.
And anyone who refuses to act when the collective is on the wrong track
is not acting without solidarity – but responsibly.

What happens when institutions are idolized

• People stop acting – they wait for permission.
• Orders from the authorities replace ethical decisions – and conscience is delegated.
• Dissent is morally sanctioned – and deviation is branded as a threat.
• Errors remain uncorrected because admitting them would be tantamount to a loss of authority.
• Society becomes controllable – but no longer free.

When the state no longer asks: “What is true?” – but only: “Who is allowed to speak?” – democracy is in danger.

The price of incapacitation

Those who idolize institutions relinquish their responsibility.
Those who relinquish responsibility lose their freedom.
Those who lose their freedom are not protected – they are controlled.

The price is a society of obedient but disoriented people.
They follow, but they don’t understand.
They obey, but they don’t trust.
They hope that others know better – and realize too late when they are mistaken or instrumentalizing.

Our position

Our position

We2030 says:

• Institutions are important – but not infallible.
• Trust is good – but only on the basis of transparency, accountability and the ability to take criticism.
• Responsibility does not begin in Geneva, Atlanta or Berlin – but with the individual.
• If you want to be free, you have to decide for yourself – and be allowed to make mistakes.
• We demand an education system that produces responsible people – no administrative assistants, no parrots, no expert priests.
• And we demand:
  A constitutionally guaranteed and individually applicable right of resistance,
  which exists not only as a symbolic basic right,
  but becomes concrete and effective – comparable to self-defense or a justifiable state of emergency.
  This right of resistance must be designed in such a way,
  that a person who feels threatened in his conscience and in his physical, mental or informal integrity,
  may interrupt state action immediately –
  solely by invoking this right.
  Anyone who invokes their fundamental right to resistance,
  must be able to stop a police operation, a coercive measure or an institutional act immediately,
  until a neutral body has examined the facts of the case.
  Just as a police officer in the presence of an act of violence does not wait for an order to act,
  but may act in self-defense,
  the free citizen must also have the right to stop injustice in its tracks – in a word, not by force.

“I invoke my right to resist.”
– That must be enough to interrupt an action – and call its legitimacy into question.

Because a fundamental right that can only be claimed in court after the event,
is not a right – but an act of mercy.

Freedom must work in the moment – not in retrospect.
Resistance must be legal, alive and protected – not symbolic, suppressed or censored.

Because democracy does not thrive on belief in authority – but on the courage to take responsibility for oneself.
And freedom only arises where people are prepared to live with the consequences of their own thinking.

Belief in institutions is no substitute for personal responsibility.
And genuine solidarity requires the courage to deviate.
Because without the right to resist, duty becomes submission.