On the first I think we agree on what is the right thing to do and what is the wrong thing to do. I just see quite a lot people who seem to think different.
Your diary about the party exclusion in lower saxony is a sign that at least in the west really Die Linke changes its behavior. I still don't think that this would have happened in east Germany.

Well, the G8 is obsolete, but often a better institution is as well lacking.

In France the revolution was good for something. In Germany even the 68er, who have achieved something, did this not so much by violent protests, but by the "march through the institutions". Teachers, school books, in a way the Green party, that was what really did it. For this Fischer is as well an example.

Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den Menschen
Volker Pispers