Attacks and accusations
The vocabulary politicians reach for when they go after each other: charges of lying, failure, hypocrisy, scaremongering. Here is how often each Fraktion uses each one, with an example speech. A useful, slightly spicy slice of debate German.
Formal calls-to-order, the Ordnungsruf, are not yet tagged as their own item by the protocol parser, so they are not broken out below. For reference, 9 speeches in the corpus mention the word Ordnungsruf.
| Word | Plain meaning | Total | AfD | CDU/CSU | Linke | Grüne | SPD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ideologie | ideology - used dismissively | 156 | 76 | 28 | 12 | 24 | 16 | Sample |
| Skandal | scandal | 136 | 28 | 27 | 49 | 24 | 8 | Sample |
| Versagen | failure - the charge of having failed | 99 | 40 | 11 | 27 | 10 | 11 | Sample |
| Hetze | agitation, stirring up hatred | 90 | 8 | 12 | 32 | 18 | 20 | Sample |
| Spaltung | division - splitting society | 75 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 31 | 16 | Sample |
| verantwortungslos | irresponsible | 67 | 12 | 9 | 15 | 20 | 11 | Sample |
| Populismus | populism - used as a charge | 65 | 4 | 21 | 6 | 13 | 21 | Sample |
| Schande | disgrace | 65 | 16 | 7 | 16 | 13 | 13 | Sample |
| ideologisch | ideological - as a charge | 63 | 39 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 2 | Sample |
| versagt | has failed | 59 | 24 | 3 | 15 | 7 | 10 | Sample |
| Märchen | fairy tale - a made-up claim | 57 | 23 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 6 | Sample |
| Blockade | obstruction, blocking progress | 46 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 16 | 8 | Sample |
| lügen | to lie / lies | 40 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 6 | Sample |
| Realitätsverweigerung | denial of reality | 34 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 1 | Sample |
| Heuchelei | hypocrisy | 28 | 11 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 3 | Sample |
| Augenwischerei | eyewash, window-dressing | 25 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | Sample |
| Lüge | lie - calling a claim an outright lie | 24 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | Sample |
| scheinheilig | sanctimonious, two-faced | 19 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 4 | Sample |
| Panikmache | scaremongering | 18 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 6 | Sample |
| Klientelpolitik | serving only your own clientele | 16 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | Sample |
| Unwahrheit | untruth - a softer 'lie' | 14 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Sample |
| Wortbruch | breaking your given word | 14 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 1 | Sample |
| unverschämt | outrageous, impudent | 13 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | Sample |
| skandalös | scandalous | 12 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | Sample |
| populistisch | populist - as an insult | 12 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 | Sample |
| Inkompetenz | incompetence | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Sample |