If you want to know what the dying process of a post-modern democracy looks like, you need to look to Germany these days. There, the red-green federal government is introducing measures against right-wing radicalism that are backed by legislation. This initiative is an entire catalog of measures that provides for people who the government itself has previously defined as right-wing radicals to have their financial processes investigated, their communications intercepted and thus any form of privacy destroyed. What we are actually witnessing here is an attempt by the existing, increasingly radicalized left-wing party cartel to eliminate political competition in advance and thus secure its own power base. An open democracy cannot survive with the means of a dictatorial state. This is the final phase of German democracy, which, together with its economy, is now entering the abyss of its creeping ethical and intellectual decline.