We are probably the only country on earth with two national holidays and we may well end up with a third and a fourth, and so on.

As a third holiday, the celebration of the Polytechnic is being prepared. That is why we prepare children from an early age. This year, then, we saw and heard that "small pupils are also carrying the Polytechnic banner."

At the same time as the celebration, every year we also have the "Molotov cocktail revelry" of pseudo-anarchists and rioters. And the people pay, literally, for the broken glass. For fifty years now, Polytechnic and all universities have been violated by all these people, with the blessing and support of the left.

What can one say, since after about fifty years "the myth of the Polytechnic" has been consolidated? Who would dare to question the myth? Immediately, the self-styled progressives of every stripe, but with a totalitarian mindset, will adorn him with the proper epithets: from reactionary to right-wing and from fascist to crazy.

The left keeps the myth of the Polytechnic because it cannot live without myths and because it is incapable of producing politics. Of course, the Polytechnic uprising is one thing and the myth of the Polytechnic is another.

The right follows, because it does not know what to do. If it does not follow the celebration imposed by the left, it will be labeled junta-lover, fascist, etc. That is why it follows, and drags along at the tail end. And all this because the left has achieved something that is a world first: it has forced the right not to dare say its own name. Not to admit that it is right-wing. To be ashamed that it is right-wing.

Why does this happen? Because for so many years the right has failed to develop an ideology to support its principles and values (liberal democracy and liberal economics). And this happens when, on a global scale, the "liberal ideology" prevails.

Therefore, the right needs to ensure that its members and society embrace the ideology of liberal democracy and liberal economics. And to be proud of this ideology, because it prevails on a global scale.

It is known that left-wing ideology has collapsed all over the world. All communist parties have disappeared. Indeed, in the former communist countries they are almost under persecution, because people suffered all manner of hardship from the communist parties.

And yet, the left, with its bankrupt ideology, has achieved the impossible in Greece. It has managed to corner the right so that it feels awkward and/or inferior.

That is, although the right stands alongside the ideological victors of the Second World War, it believes in an ideology that dominates the whole world. It has been proven to be the ideology of consensus and progress. Yet, in spite of this, instead of being and feeling proud, it apparently does not feel at ease.

Therefore, there is only one path: the right must believe in its values and in itself. And conservatives must be and feel proud to be conservative, because their ideas are at the global forefront. And the more center-right, the better.

The right also needs to take its cue from the left. The left, though it follows a bankrupt ideology, nevertheless continues to feel proud of it and to fight, in theory and in practice, to impose it.

The above does not mean that the right holds truth and democracy. Of course not. Truth and democracy are possessed by no one. They are values that are approached, by some more and by others less.

In a democracy, all ideologies are tolerated. Even those that fight democracy. But if it is in danger, it must be protected. Every free and responsible citizen is entitled and obliged, in accordance with the Constitution, to protect democracy.

Is it perhaps time for the left to leave myths behind, adapt to reality, and produce politics?

Pavlos Marantos

marantosp@gmail.com