German Democracy and the Docta Ignorantia

German Democracy and the Docta Ignorantia

The project Demokratie leben! (Living Democracy!), which has existed since 2015, receives enormous and substantial funding from the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs—that is, from the German taxpayer. In 2026 alone, the sum amounted to approximately 190 million euros.  For nearly as long as the project has existed, the patriotic opposition has accused it of a glaring lack of transparency, of functioning as covert state financing for political …