"Forgive them, because they don't know what they are doing," Péter Márki-Zay asked the Almighty on the night of the elections, consistently sticking to the narrative that he is the innocent Messiah, who was now crucified by the ignorant, idiotic people with his evil henchmen. Of course, the analogy is certainly correct in that, on the darkest night, Péter Márki-Zay was also left alone and rejected by his "friends", instead of honorably keeping vigil with him during the difficult hours.
This is how Francesca Rivafinoli started her writing on the vasarnap.hu portal, which we also publish.
"You have nothing to do with 2-3 million idiots, it's their country", "I helped two dozen illiterate voters to vote for Fidesz", "The darkness is exasperatingly deep" - the wise members of the opposition intelligentsia expressed the same idea in a somewhat less biblical form : the people are stupid.
Well, I would like to say with respect and friendship that this way, in this form, is exactly the path that leads to a two-thirds Fidesz victory in 2026. And I would honestly spare my opposition buddies who deserve a better fate from that, so I would help them answer some of the tormenting questions correctly.
One: Where did so many Fidesz come from?!?
Indeed, those Fidesz people have (for the most part) always been here. For example, they write sensible, calm, objective comments, comment on opposition proposals on all kinds of Facebook pages - only to be eliminated that way. From Péter Márki-Zay "Szeretemország" to Klára Dobrev "Democrat", from Rita Perintfalvi "Freedom is the most important" to Gergely Péterfy "Befogadó", each of them cuts off the dissenting visitor from their portals by simply snickering. Unless one or another pro-government visitor insults them in an obscene manner, because their comments are even framed, saying that this is what Christian democracy is all about. While any oppositionist can lurk under the posts of "illiberal" government members day and night, the "democrats" lock themselves in their rather thick opinion bubble, which only pops out during the offline elections, very painfully.
Maybe we should take it back from censorship, maybe we should start arguing with the little man from the government party in a respectful way, and we would already be able to understand something about what Hungarian voters fall for and what they don't.
But the Fidesz people are also there in the workplace, they just listen. While, according to the entrenched misconception, the opposition voters are intimidated in this country, and therefore they do not even dare to anonymously admit to the pollsters that they are right-wing or right-wing, the reality of my kind as a solid conservative intellectual is that the left-wing colleagues splash around in the canteen and scold the brain dead Fidesz people, upon hearing which the newly arrived Fidesz colleague prefers to hide in silence. And it stays there, incognito. Whether this is correct behavior or not is a different question, but if the speakers in the various companies were to speak with one less mouth, perhaps the pro-government voters living in their environment would be more likely to come out.
Two: What makes them so aberrant that they are able to vote for "the most corrupt government in the thousand-year history of Hungary"?
It may seem like a good idea in the offices of American think tanks to build the campaign on the problem of corruption, but in Hungary there are a few million of us who have never led a country, and so despite our belief that we would float above the dirty world of politics as saints, we can never be completely sure of this. That's why we think it's more correct to judge the representative candidates according to what they put on the table, despite and despite all possible nonsense. And if a government could really be the most corrupt government in the universe in such a way that all generations of the voter's family (regardless of education and life status) live significantly better and feel better than before the actions of the given government, in addition to continuous construction and development in its wider environment you see, then that government must be an epochal genius. Regardless, the electorate would willingly replace them with a genius government that never compromises - if they saw such an alternative emerging. On the other hand, it is difficult to consider as such an alternative the potentially corrupt, but at least immeasurably untalented conglomerate, which is not able, with a 6+1 party alliance, to mobilize the country in text messages with sentences that conform to the rules of Hungarian grammar ("The need is on you!" text, for example, it doesn't seem very convincing). In the first instance, you could try to reduce the scribbles by twenty percent, to see if some creativity starts to fill the void created in this way over time.
And finally three: Ignorance is the cause of everything, the clumsy Fidesz do not have the right information!!!4!
I'm afraid the opposite is true: the vast majority of Fidesz voters vote the way they do because they have information. If the de facto leader of the opposition hints that, if they get into government, they would make undesirable right-wing intellectuals run off the ground, then a voter with historical knowledge and perhaps also aware of the fate of his own ancestors will immediately say, well, we're not voting for these Bolshis. When a liberal young person who grew up in a conservative family gets out for 1-2 years in the thick of Western European multiculturalism and experiences the obstinacy behind the beautiful ideas, he returns to his country as a Fidesz that the jaws of his relatives fall off. When the farmer with the chickens sees in the news (by the way, he has internet in the so-called Mucsa, with better bandwidth than in some German cities), so when the farmer with the chickens sees in the news that one of the political sides is the freeSZFE students is busy with his workshops, and the other with the price of diesel, then he can relate better to the latter in terms of his own everyday life. This is. You can laugh at him because he only produces our daily food with laborious work, rather than redeeming humanity in Belpest as a warrior of an Idea, but politically it would be more profitable to take off his big face and try to understand his priorities. Even if it wasn't just an empty phrase in the campaign that "the power belongs to the people".
That's all for the first time. If these three points can be achieved, I will be happy to help, don't depend on it - we would all be ahead with a refreshingly new, intellectually competitive Hungarian opposition. Go!
Photo: Szennyes Krisztián/Vasarnap.hu
