Huxit would be life-threatening, so our mission can only be to stay in Europe and fight on.
Tamás Fricz suggested on Sunday in Magyar Nemzet that we should consider Huxit - Hungary's exit from the EU. Fortunately, he didn't say that we should do it - but he toyed with the idea that we could do it. Similar sentences were recently uttered by Speaker of the House László Kövér, who said that although Hungary would not be better off outside the European Union, he would still vote no on joining.
As much as I respect them, now is the time for the debate - because I fear that the position of Fricz and Kövér has been captured by their meeting place, which is right in the middle of the political establishment in Budapest. Tamás Fricz and László Kövér are first-line cultural warrior Christian Democrats, their days are filled with the intellectual and political defense of Hungarian conservatism, and as the years pass, they have developed the impression that they are fighting a fairly stubborn windmill in the person of Brussels. So they want nothing more than to turn their backs on this uncompromising windmill, so that Brussels no longer has a say in what Hungarians think about immigration, LGBTQ propaganda and the Soros network. And they are right about that. It would be nice if Brussels had no say in this.
But their seat point is rare. Apart from a few hundred people from Budapest, for most Hungarians the culture war is at most a leisure activity,
they are more concerned with supporting their families in their full-time jobs
– and from their vantage point, the European Union looks completely different.
From the point of view of the average person, the European Union is, on the one hand, a big, big Brussels, which he hates, despises or admires depending on his political convictions; on the other hand, it consists of a thousand smart solutions that make your life easier. The Union is the communist petting Jean-Claude Juncker, the Union is cheeky even in its ignorance Věra Jourová, the Union is the bloodthirsty Katarina Barley, who hangs on the money of the Hungarians, the Union is the EMA, which has been unable to recognize the proven effective Eastern vaccines for months due to open political motivation, the Union the European Prosecutor's Office, which is led by the Romanian assassin of Hungarian politicians in Transylvania - okay.
But the EU is also the Schengen border system, which allows us to slip from one corner of the continent to the other like a knife through butter, while anyone who has spent their vacation in southern Croatia knows what a bottomless waste of time it is to attempt a border crossing south or east of the Schengen zone. . The Union is also a customs union, which makes EU goods cheaper here than elsewhere,
Hungarian goods are more competitive abroad within the EU.
The Union is also the SEPA system, which made foreign transfers a two-minute, affordable finger exercise instead of a half-day, expensive program. The Union is also exempt from roaming charges, as a result of which the majority of Hungarians no longer have to think for a minute about whether they dare to pick up the phone or look at Facebook abroad.
The Union is also Erasmus, which greatly contributes to the fact that the young people of our notoriously low-speaking people at least start to learn English. The Union is also the free labor market, which ensured the rise of many Hungarian families - for some through emigration, for others commuting, and for others returning richly after a few years of work abroad. And the Union is also the many benefits that individual member states provide to EU citizens, from the exemption of university tuition fees to equal access to social benefits.
And whether you like it or not, the average person first thinks of the Union, not the former. Because for the average person, earning a living is a full-time job, the culture war is at best a hobby, and politics is perhaps not even that. Only a narrow circle of politicians, experts and journalists in Budapest can afford the luxury of the culture war being their livelihood. That is precisely why politicians, experts and journalists are the least allowed to play with the idea of Huxit - because
it's not their livelihood that's at stake, it's everyone else's.
In Hungary, the role of the political right was given to pragmatically politicize. We are the ones who cannot afford to make bad decisions for the country under ideological influence.
Self-serving country destruction motivated by isms is the luxury of the left - we need to see the reality: that hundreds of thousands of people in this country live in close symbiosis with other EU countries. There are those who produce there because duty-free gives them competitiveness. There are people who commute there because the Austrian, Slovak or Slovenian labor market demands them, and the Schengen agreement gives them freedom of movement. And there are those who study there, because the EU schools offer them a way out of the still ailing Hungarian education. Seeing this reality
a pragmatic political force cannot under any circumstances consider Huxit to be in the interest of the country.
Especially not in view of the fact that exiting the Union does not actually solve the culture warrior issue either: nothing prevents the European Union's lemon prize-winning foreign policy chief muftis from interfering in their endless stupidity in the internal affairs of Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Belarus or Russia. Huxit would not drive political activist NGOs out of our country, would not improve the endlessly distorted image of Hungary in the European media, would not make the Germans, Benelux and Scandinavians more thorough and understanding towards us.
On the contrary: Hungary would be on the same platform as Belarus, as a dictatorship in the Wild East that must be destroyed at all costs. This is Mark Rutte's dream, not the Hungarians'.
Because this is exactly what our EU enemies want: to draw a clear red line between Europe and us. So that they can proclaim the new essence of Europeanness without an alternative, the postmodern emptiness itself, which brings Muslims and transgenders to a common denominator in the sanctuaries of gutted Baroque ex-churches. So that the sane worldview of Central Europe can no longer be either Western or European. This is what they want. And that's exactly what we shouldn't give them.
Staying in Europe and fighting on: this is the mission.
The political right cannot escape from the nerve-wracking task of wrestling with bureaucrats and ideologues in Brussels, it cannot do its own job at the expense of the well-being of hundreds of thousands of Hungarians. The true Hungarian word has its place in the EP, on the front pages of the Brussels newspapers, at the negotiating tables. We must hit the table and fight till we break our nails until we have saved as much of European Europe as possible for posterity. We are right, I have no doubt about that, and the truth will not be in opposition for long. Unless it is voluntarily removed from the paste.
And that's life-threatening, not staying there. No one's life has been made worse by the stupid statements of Western percentage hunters who don't know Hungary. Almost everyone would be worse off from Huxit. The worst thing that can happen to us in the Union is the freezing of cohesion funds - we would voluntarily give them up with Huxit, along with a thousand other economic benefits, with zero political benefit.
So if we can't win anything with Huxit, why would we voluntarily want to lose?
Let's not want to!
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