Success should be the primary criterion for evaluating the appropriateness of political parties' and governments' action plans. The key question should be whether the implementation of political concepts has led to an improvement in the common good or its decline. This outcome should be the sole determining factor by which political forces are legitimized in the democratic election process and entrusted with governmental responsibility, or conversely, deprived of it.
If this criterion is applied, it is undeniable that the progressive policies imposed on the populations of Austria and Germany in recent years—especially by left-leaning and EU-loyal coalition governments—have caused significant harm and worsened living conditions.
These policies, largely based on ideological utopianism, have resulted in:
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A failure during the pandemic, driven by irrational fears and an over-reliance on science rather than sober reason;
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A thoughtless, pseudo-humanistic attitude toward immigration, the prosecution of criminals, and deportation, characterized by moralizing without actual morals;
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Economic decline due to a fanatical climate policy that was practically imposed on the people by the political left, resembling a secular substitute religion;
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Amateurism in security policy, particularly marked by Russophobia.
The reality of life disproves the social and political theories of the left, which claim to be validated by continuous success and the improvement of human living conditions at all levels of society.
The failure stems primarily from the fact that ruling left-wing parties—such as those in Austria, which have traditionally attracted conservative, Christian-social forces like the ÖVP (Austrian People's Party), or in Germany, with the CDU (Christian Democratic Union)—prioritized ideological intentions over objective insights into various policy areas. Whenever this happens, every political initiative inevitably carries the seeds of its downfall.
Now, it is being suggested that these failures came upon us as if by some natural occurrence. In reality, they are self-inflicted, the result of educational and moral deficits among the elites.
The United Left—along with its allies on the so-called right—now stands before the ruins of its policies. Although fully aware of this, the left is too obsessed with power to admit its mistakes or learn from these painful experiences. If they had any sense of decency, the coalitions in Germany and Austria would have resigned long ago and called for new elections.
Given the damage done and their proven incompetence, the ruling administrations, along with the parties and media sympathetic to them, are now in desperation. As a result, they have turned to what they see as their only remaining strategy for maintaining power: the demonization of the remaining conservative bastions within the state and society.
The left has taken the offensive and is not afraid to use inflammatory terms like "fascism" and "right-wing extremism" inappropriately, seeking to discredit every conservative and Christian-social political force to maintain their grip on power.
In truth, it is the left that is undermining democratic political structures and processes. In a desperate attempt to remain in power, it has tried to establish a "dictatorship of opinion," creating a mental autocracy that no longer allows for classically conservative or Christian-social positions. With its anti-democratic approach, the left seeks to pave the way for a one-party rule dominated by left-progressive political movements. The recent leak of a secret document outlining a proposed ÖVP-SPÖ-NEOS coalition confirms this intent.
If we redefine the concept of fascism in the modern context as anti-liberal, anti-democratic, secular, and radically anti-Christian—and exclude the irrelevant elements of ethnic and racial elitism—we can see how the political left embodies the actual fascist elements in our societies. In an audacious way, it projects this strategy, which it itself practices, onto everyone who stands outside its narrow ideology.
Therefore, left-wing fascism represents the primary danger to our societies in the current culture war. The myth of "left is good" and "right is bad," which has been preached since the 1968 generation, is gradually unraveling. Increasingly, people are recognizing that the radical, indifferent-progressive left is the true adversary of humanity. The opening of the Summer Olympics in Paris served as a stark reminder of this in an archetypal way. It is nearly too late for our societies to wake up.
The right, in the well-understood sense of bourgeois-Christian thinking, is returning inevitably to realpolitik. More and more citizens are seeing through the left’s deceptive tactics. They are realizing that only a renaissance of conservatism can save Western civilization and its societies.
