Some expect democracy to fall victim to the right or the left. That is possible. But isn't it just as threatened “from a side that one would not have expected”, as Giovanni di Lorenzo recently asked in “Die Zeit”? In relation to the danger of a return of the historically remembered "enemies of freedom", however, it is more misleading to argue that bourgeois democracy is damaged for reasons of freedom, of all things. She dies on the networks and with tattoos and blue hair. In other words: Freedom seeps away because of a radical individualization that has happened in ourselves, unnoticed like a ghost. It is distorted to the marketable "performance" stratagem, in private on Instagram, in professional on LinkedIn, and so on. The networks exhaust, freedom seeps into them. From here, politics also changes radically. Unconventional behavior is becoming, if perhaps not the norm, at least the gold standard of trust. Trust then experiences who embodies institutional independence. Political parties are already suspicious, associations even more.