Over the last 48 hours, I have allowed myself the ''pleasure'' of analyzing the German media once again, which used to be my job for over 25 years. I don't need to report on this terrible and grotesque experience in detail, but everyone knows what has happened since 1968: the ultra-left has successfully completed its march through the institutions and into the media. Everything is infiltrated with the infantile and ethically disenchanted, radical left-wing and corrosive ideas that know only one target vector: bourgeois society!

Their immense success was reflected in the growth of the bureaucratic welfare state, which is a kind of front organization of left-wing parties and whose growth has only one goal: to bring as many people as possible under control in order to weaken the bourgeois forces striving for freedom and autonomy.

In their shrill triumphal procession, however, the left has made a crucial mistake. They have forgotten a perfectly valid point on their agenda, their founding myth of the industrial era, that of discusing the temporarily emerging poverty of the masses, which libertarians would fight with the means of the free market and personal responsibility. This has been the focus of their ideology and their political aspirations, it has been their natural political battlefield on which their were nearly unbeaten.

But success makes you sluggish. Physically and intellectually. In their sense of triumph and superiority, they have driven the wedges into society that we have come to know as gender politics, DEI, ESG or green rainbow Stalinism, thus discrediting themselves intellectually. The great awakening on the conservative side has begun and Donald Trump's administration is showing that it has understood what needs to be done now: they must begin the long march through the institutions, right into the media, just as their left-wing counterparts once successfully did. This will not happen without massive resistance, as we know from the 1970s and 1980s, but it will lead us in this direction and will certainly give us libertarians repeated opportunities to weave our points into the fabric of conservative politics.

We are facing a serious process of transformation, the resurgence of bourgeois values, the bourgeois family, and all of this is taking place against a backdrop of the highest levels of national debt and progressed implementation of the basic principles of a socialist economy, which has severely damaged the economic fabric of the West. All of this will be accompanied by the sudden bursting of left-wing green dream bubbles and the fall of the illusion of social security, provided by an overstretched welfare state. Millions chained into state subservience will see the narrative of the last 10 years, the man-made climate change, the pandemics that are supposed to sweep us away, senseless wars that are nothing more than money laundering and credit pumping, shatter before their eyes.

In these moments of emerging frictions, of breaking narratives and illusions, we libertarians must offer our civilizationally superior tools, transplant them into the zeitgeist to achieve at least a modicum of progress. Implementing the entire libertarian agenda is more than illusory in view of the behavior of the masses, who will grasp at any straw that promises them a sip from the milkshake of warming collectivism.

We must succeed in describing a path of evolution in our society, at the end of which social progress is also characterized as the emergence of individual dignity and independence as something that is more than just the acquisition of new purchasing power: it is the victory of personal dignity over the lowlands of the collectivist herd mentality.