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, 15 speeches in the corpus mention the word Ordnungsruf.
| Word | Plain meaning | Total | AfD | CDU/CSU | Linke | Grüne | SPD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ideologie | ideology - used dismissively | 294 | 130 | 67 | 15 | 48 | 34 | Sample |
| Skandal | scandal | 259 | 53 | 54 | 85 | 37 | 30 | Sample |
| Hetze | agitation, stirring up hatred | 209 | 13 | 28 | 61 | 43 | 64 | Sample |
| Versagen | failure - the charge of having failed | 199 | 57 | 31 | 51 | 35 | 25 | Sample |
| Spaltung | division - splitting society | 152 | 10 | 27 | 28 | 49 | 38 | Sample |
| Populismus | populism - used as a charge | 131 | 7 | 36 | 10 | 30 | 48 | Sample |
| ideologisch | ideological - as a charge | 127 | 59 | 37 | 6 | 12 | 13 | Sample |
| Schande | disgrace | 124 | 31 | 14 | 24 | 23 | 32 | Sample |
| verantwortungslos | irresponsible | 119 | 28 | 20 | 23 | 30 | 18 | Sample |
| versagt | has failed | 111 | 42 | 15 | 23 | 17 | 14 | Sample |
| Märchen | fairy tale - a made-up claim | 106 | 36 | 28 | 13 | 13 | 16 | Sample |
| Blockade | obstruction, blocking progress | 91 | 9 | 22 | 12 | 28 | 20 | Sample |
| lügen | to lie / lies | 84 | 16 | 10 | 12 | 29 | 17 | Sample |
| Lüge | lie - calling a claim an outright lie | 59 | 24 | 6 | 17 | 9 | 3 | Sample |
| Heuchelei | hypocrisy | 50 | 23 | 2 | 17 | 5 | 3 | Sample |
| Realitätsverweigerung | denial of reality | 50 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 3 | Sample |
| Augenwischerei | eyewash, window-dressing | 33 | 16 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 2 | Sample |
| Klientelpolitik | serving only your own clientele | 31 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | Sample |
| scheinheilig | sanctimonious, two-faced | 29 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 7 | Sample |
| Panikmache | scaremongering | 27 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 7 | Sample |
| populistisch | populist - as an insult | 25 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 8 | Sample |
| skandalös | scandalous | 23 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 2 | Sample |
| Unwahrheit | untruth - a softer 'lie' | 21 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 5 | Sample |
| unverschämt | outrageous, impudent | 19 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 2 | Sample |
| Wortbruch | breaking your given word | 17 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | Sample |
| Inkompetenz | incompetence | 16 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | Sample |