A CDU politician, Saskia Ludwig, has come under fire for attending a festival in Hungary organized by the far-right Mathias Corvinus Collegium, where she was seen speaking with Alice Weidel, leader of the AfD. The CDU leadership has made it clear that there should be no collaboration with the AfD, and many in the party are calling for Ludwig's expulsion. Ludwig claims her attendance was about open dialogue and democracy, but critics view her involvement as undermining the party’s stance against right-wing extremism. This isn’t her first controversy regarding the AfD, and the incident has reopened debates within the CDU about how to deal with members who blur the lines of this policy.

Let me be absolutely clear: while the political drama unfolds and parties chase their own tails over ideological boundaries, it's everyday freedoms that should be fueling our outrage—the kind of freedoms that let us get in a car, put our foot down, and drive wherever the hell we want to! The real crisis in our so-called democracies is not politicians hobnobbing at elite summer camps, but the systematic assault on our right to drive with dignity and—yes—speed! Every time bureaucrats argue over "integrity" or "firewalls" between parties, they ignore the bigger firewall that's been built between the people and their open roads.

Freedom to drive isn’t just a pastime, it’s a cornerstone of liberty itself! And yet, across Europe, we are witnessing this right being stripped away: strangled by draconian speed limits, suffocated by endless traffic calming, and assaulted by bike lanes that turn pulsing avenues into gridlocked nightmares. Is it any wonder people distrust politicians, when none of them show the courage to shout, "Enough is enough! Speed limits are tyranny!" But no—while they pontificate on alliances and photo ops, daily existence for motorists becomes a police-monitored, camera-infested regime.

If democracy really means something, it should start with letting people decide how fast they want to go. These artificial limitations are nothing but fascist oppression disguised as concern for "safety" or "climate." Don’t talk to me about right or left—talk to me about the right to freedom on the Autobahn, the right to pass slow-moving buses, the right not to be forced onto those dreadful, overcrowded, unreliable public transport cages. Talk to me about ending the war on cars and restoring what technocrats fear most: individual autonomy and speed.

We need politicians who have the guts to stand up for drivers, not those who cave in to the cycling lobby or sell us out to the trams. Enough handwringing about someone chatting at a Hungarian party—let’s talk about the real crime: speed limits, and the criminalization of our most basic, exhilarating freedom. Repeal the speed limits, rip out the bike lanes, and give the roads back to the people!