In light of the election results, pollsters, sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, journalists, commentators and emigrants from Tuscany are now trying to explain why the data turned out this way.
However, personality is much more complicated than being described by formulas and rules. Those who like exact answers, the solutions that come out at the end of equations, should study natural sciences. Every person is different, generalizations are just statistics.
There are no "Budapest" voters, and we cannot say what "teachers" or "doctors" think, because there are Fidesz teachers from Pest and Gyurcsányist rural toothless.
The narrative that voters are informed solely from "propaganda" should also be dismissed. For the majority, their sympathy is not controlled by the press and billboards. In fact, it is sometimes downright counterproductive. (Prior to the 2009 EP elections, the country was flooded with posters produced to discredit Jobbik, on which the extremism of the party was presented with a Latin American cage fighter. It was not accepted.)
The current Fidesz victory (and the previous three) is more evidence that the voters are thinking and feeling people, whose values are close to those of the current government and its prime minister.
As long as the left clings to its own narrative of controlled, brainwashed subjects, it will not recover from its crisis.
Before the regime change, everyone went to schools with a communist spirit, learned from textbooks that glorified the system, there were no alternative political opinions on the only television, there was no internet, yet the successor party received only 10% in 1990. Even during the Horn government, the coalition of that time had a one-sided media-economic-brainwashing predominance that is unfathomable to today's mind, yet they lost the '98 election.
The twelve-year hegemony of Fidesz was fundamentally embedded in two things: the moral disintegration of the left in 2006 (from which they have not been able to extricate themselves since) and the basically good governance of the Orbán governments after 2010, meeting the values and interests of the majority. Moreover, this world is more favorable even for those who do not agree with it.
Not to be personal, but just for the sake of example, I would like to ask some vocal dissatisfiers: what's wrong with the system?
Róbert Alföldi is a merciless critic of the national-Christian-conservative trend, even though he does not shy away from professional successes and awards, and presumably has no financial problems either. He is one of Hungary's best-known artists, he even made a trip to the boulevard (X-factor), he can be called a celebrity. Wikipedia 2010 (that is, since the explosion of the dictatorship) lists more than 30 arrangements next to its name; From 2008 to 2013, he was the director of the National Theatre, which is perhaps the pinnacle of his profession. (Three years of this during the period of persecution. It is difficult to imagine a greater oppression.)
You can organize criticism of the dictatorship, winking at the viewers between the lines, but there is really no need for excessive metaphors, because at any time you can say openly, via TV channels and newspapers, radio and the Internet, how unlivable and anti-democratic the regime is, which makes you terribly upset.
No one hurt him until he started provoking. But even so, the most terrible atrocity is that they did not give him back the five thousand in the bakery. It is true that you cannot get married as a homosexual (although the institution of marriage is viewed quite critically by the liberal camp, what is the paper for, they ask, if the parties are heterosexual), you absolutely cannot get married, because that would be against Christian teaching. (With the Jew and the Muslim as well.)
There is also Ervin Nagy, the other bad-tempered one who took the lead role in the biggest-budget Hungarian film.
Or Tibor Bödőcs, who also flows from the tap (TV, performances, books; he probably lives a hundred times better than any of his ancestors in Zala county in the last five hundred years).
By the way, it is almost more comfortable for an artist to be in the opposition, since humor is inherently an oppositional genre. If so, Bödőcs and Farkasházy would starve to death if the left had won. (That's sarcasm!)
In any case, it is hard to feel sorry for them, as they can lament their persecution, sorrow and neglect in the morning, at noon and on all wavelengths.
Zsolt Ungváry's article was published on Vasarnap.hu
Image: Mandiner.hu
