The first law of the pit is that if you're in it, stop digging. But we'll get to the second one as well.
The global economic crisis of 2008 showed that the left failed miserably. His attempts at renewal failed, he failed by indiscriminately branding all his rivals as anti-Semitic, nationalist, extremist and exclusionary, and the plan to drag the financial interests of his own left-wing elite into leftism also failed. The diagnosis is therefore that what the left has done is unsustainable, that is, an era must be closed and a new one must be opened. The laws of the pit were formulated by Viktor Orbán at the Fidesz congress seven years ago.
"When Rome's great age ended, the question was not what would happen to Rome, but what would happen after Rome."
This was also said by Viktor Orbán, even earlier, at the 2011 Fidesz congress. And this is how we arrive at the second law of the pit: land on it! People expected and expect a right-wing government to eliminate chaos and create order. However, in order for the right to fulfill its historical mission, it must again and again produce the necessary majority to govern. Pipe.
The captivity of the Hungarian left-liberal grouping has never crystallized so spectacularly as now, after the parliamentary elections. In his speech on April 9, Gyurcsány evaluated the failure of the coalition, and if we go beyond the usual slips, staged slogans, and paradoxes, we realize that what the former prime minister is promoting and what he wants are mutually exclusive. This is bad news for the opposition, and therefore ultimately bad news for the entire country.
"Dare to be left-wing, green, liberal, democratic centre-right!" - shouts the head of the DK, describing their world as a "nice, democratic, diffuse network", but shortly afterwards he also says that "we need a politician capable of action. If you hate parties, take a cooking course. A politician who organizes an organized, strong party and a political background for himself. The others should choose another profession."
He therefore does not like political individuals, the ideas of "partisans" - as he puts it - because they harm party discipline. Still, he calls on the stakeholders of the six-party coalition to be what they are: greens, leftists, liberals and rightists; in his reading, the latter have now been tamed into a democratic centre-right. This message is nothing more than a wooden iron ring, if someone really believes it. If someone doesn't believe it, it may be because they looked behind the packaging, where a precisely greased knife awaits the hand that is about to cut the salami.
"On the side of the democratic opposition, it is not diversity that is lacking, but stability. It's not diversity that's missing, but unity," he emphasizes, ignoring the fact that the colorful coalitions of the 2019 municipal elections failed in many big cities, precisely because the rainbow mentality is incompatible with hierarchy, which is the basis of party discipline. It is not possible to implement vertical rigor with those to whom we previously promised horizontal equality . In this way, the sentence with which the former prime minister launched his speech on social media fulfills itself:
"He who fears the truth will be defeated by a lie."
The April 3rd two-thirds poll, the fourth in a row, gave a clear answer to who people consider credible (truthful) and who unreliable (liar).
Similarly incompatible are the lines of thought in which, on the one hand, he supports Jobbik, and on the other hand, he claims that a left-wing coalition cannot choose a right-wing prime minister candidate.
"That Jobbik took more than it brought is unfounded and untrue. The majority of voters of cooperating parties follow their party's request."
The reality actually contradicts this, and about a million former Jobbik voters left behind the coalition.
"There is no way on earth that a left-wing group chooses a right-wing candidate for itself. This is the denial of self-identity, the abandonment of identity, the abandonment of the voters' soul and dream."
Sure it is. Betrayal, giving up one's identity. Just like the betrayal of Jobbik, which after the bloody autumn of 2006 was created precisely against Ferenc Gyurcsány, today it has merged into the coalition whose strongest party is Ferenc Gyurcsány's party.
By the way, Márki-Zay didn't give a damn about wanting to replace the opposition either. This is how the leader of DK remembers it:
"If the candidate's ambition is to replace the force at the head of which he should govern, it is suicide. We knew this and chose it knowing this. There is no criticism of him here, because he spoke clearly and we knew it."
They knew. And they let it. I wonder why? Because he would have been easy prey? If MZP had won by some miracle, its coup would have been child's play.
"We would have won with Klára Dobrev!"
Gyurcsány had to say this, his audience of a few dozen needed it, obviously a baroque exaggeration, but this is a sectarian party, it fits. However, about gyurcányóz are essentially nothing more than building a personal cult, the last phase of building a brand.
"For a decade and a half, they have been wounding and cutting me, so far they haven't been able to kill me, now they are saying, not for the first time, that I should commit suicide then. I will consider it. I considered it. No. It's a recurring trope that we play to the music of Fidesz, but gyurcsányozing is Fidesz's narrative. But in this world, Gyurcsány is neither a noun nor a proper name, but an adjective. It indicates the attitude that God doesn't want to go away, he is here and fighting and doing. Unkillable, persistent, fighting. It is also self-reflexive. Builds a team and a party. Don't defend yourself, you want to be ducks! In politics, we go further with this, at least on our side. Be a little girl! DK proudly does not ask permission from anyone to do what he believes in. We go forward and not backward."
Leaving aside the unabashed adoption of Fidesz's campaign slogan, let's take a look at the self-deception that allows the party president to describe himself as "self-reflexive". As a person who can admit his mistakes. Again, the slippage is big, because he did practice self-criticism on only one occasion, in the Öszöd speech, but it was delivered in a closed circle, and he intended it for his own purposes. Only for them. However, after the unprecedented state terror of September-October 2006, he never practiced self-criticism, only his cynical denial confronted the wounded Hungarian society. And he has been facing it ever since. The catharsis failed, the open wound remained. The lack of catharsis is the primary reason why the vast majority of voters decisively and categorically reject Gyurcsány. No one can expect a solution from someone who is the problem; whether the alliance understands this or not.
And finally, let's say a word about the Gejl tale about the boy with the beautiful face and dreadlocks: Ferenc Gyurcsány received a badge from him with the inscription Je suis Gyurcsány. In the story, this boy called the party chairman on the street, asked for a selfie, and then pressed the badge into his hand. Heart breaks.
I don't know what's wrong with that, I especially like Viktor Orbán, I consider him a statesman who is far beyond his contemporaries, smart, strong and credible, but I never, never thought of making any kind of badge and giving it to Orbán. Let him give it to me. He is the politician, not me. He has to convince me to vote for him, not the other way around.
One month before the election, the Prime Minister said the following about the opposition :
"There are certainly Hungarian patriots who do not agree with our government, those who want to criticize us on a national basis, and who can organize an opposition that is not financed by George Soros and Brussels. They are not currently on the list of the left, but I am looking forward to finally having to debate them on a national basis."
So, my dear opposition friends, acquaintances and strangers, reject Je suis Gyurcsány, don't want to be Gyurcsány, throw dirt on this gathering! Rather, build, be a worthy opposition to Fidesz and a worthy servant of the Hungarian interest! You deserve it. As the country deserves.
Featured image: End of the century
