At the moment, the face of the civil opposition is a girl with an eighth grade, a graduate politician who considers herself to be the most militant opposition, taking a selfie on Facebook with her middle finger raised in protest, writes Francesca Rivafinoli in her publicist.
In the lead: as a multi-degree member of a multi-generational intellectual family, who also deliberately acquired qualifications that were already completely useless in the 21st century at the time of their acquisition. in the 20th century labor market (if we start from the assumption of how many people would now suddenly need to learn the medial aorist of verbs ending in -μι), I will be the last one to take aim at self-serving humanities and free-living social scientists.
However, a certain sense of shame appears there, when the graduate citizen, after listening to the precise and accurate information of the boiler mechanic who did not graduate from university about the innovative ignition system, the modulating pump, and the appropriate thermal and flow technical sizing, opens the Internet and receives that graduate expert analysis in the face of the more than a year after the fourth two-thirds, "Fidesz's voters are largely retired, low-educated, skilled workers" and, consequently, "it is not in the government's interest to create highly educated masses, from which the anti-Fidesz masses would easily stand out".
If boilermakers with low qualifications did such sloppy work, we would freeze next winter.
First of all: the education system is bleeding from many wounds, but anyone who takes the trouble to support their claims with figures will immediately be confronted by the KSH's website with the fact that the number of people with higher education has increased by 544,000 since 2010, while those with only skilled workers or less there were one million fewer people.
During the same period, the number of votes cast for the Fidesz-KDNP list changed from 2.7 million to more than three million. It doesn't look like the government has been shaken by this shift in education.
It is customary to say that it is good, of course, because those who are smart and really educated will all go abroad - except that in London last year a total of 6,951 people voted. If they were fans of the opposition en masse with their alleged degrees, then the Hungarian intellectuals who strengthen the middle class in England would obviously have had enough to tire of the embassy in larger numbers. They didn't. But in the same way, they did not feel motivated to take on a public role as responsible scribes and stand at the head of the "anti-Fidesz crowd", but rather comment from Bristol. So it is completely indifferent who they sympathize with, and the members of the government will not have a single sleepless night because of their intellectual status, that's for sure.
At the moment, the face of the civil opposition is a girl with an eight general education, a graduate politician who considers herself to be the most militant opposition, taking selfies on Facebook with a raised middle finger in protest, and Momentum, which has an exceptionally large number of graduates in its voting base, 50 percent, has worked hard to reach the threshold of the parliament.
So much for educated people.
The fact is that, according to a May study by the Compass Institute (which examined the entire population, not certain voters), among Fidesz-KDNP sympathizers, the less educated are over-represented and those with higher education are under-represented. (Incidentally, there are far more retirees in the DK camp, every second voter for them is over 65 - in fact, of all the parties, the age composition of Fidesz matches the proportion of the elderly in society the best; feeding idiotic Fidesz nagging is therefore quite counterproductive. Especially since the Fidesz is leading, albeit narrowly, even in the youngest voter group, with the Two-Tailed Dog Party behind it, and behind it a sizeable gap.)
However, it is inherently self-deceiving to cover up with proportions; because it is not difficult to determine which group of graduates numerically forms the larger crowd: 39 percent of the Párbeszéd voting base or 16 percent of the voters of the governing parties.
In its heyday, Momentum had 345,000 voters rounded up in the 2019 EP elections, which meant no more than 172,000 graduates; in comparison (based on the ratios of the Compass Institute), 292,000 citizens with higher education could vote for Fidesz at that time, and 490,000 in last year's parliamentary elections. It is not out of the question that these half a million voters are specifically mobilized by any speech that says that Fidesz sympathizers are largely uneducated and losers.
They are just starting to falter, and some opposition politician or wise analyst comes along and stirs them up. And the pensioner from Fidesz, who at the time was unable to get a degree for political reasons.
Especially the plumber who, the last time I complained that I had forgotten to wipe the dust, calmed me down by saying that, according to the signs, I don't know what conditions prevail in the apartments of some intellectuals in Buda. If only dust wouldn't be deleted! - burst out this undereducated compatriot of ours. Well, pretentiousness is not dependent on paper, what is not revealed.
At the same time, this comparison of a graduate versus a manual laborer is not too fortunate either, because if you look around among middle-aged urban intellectuals, you will find suspiciously many examples of an ex-lawyer with a doctorate in front of his name molding oat crackers, an ex-marketer setting up for self-sufficiency on a rural farm, a former bioengineer who applies make-up to his girlfriends, or an archaeologist became a yoga instructor.
He became a trained barista, alas, he is finally doing what he wanted! But he paints beautiful ceramics, it would be a sin for him to still be sitting in the bank - the audience enthuses. If we admit that it is possible to live a happy and full, and even socially very useful life as a carpenter in his forties, then why should we automatically look down on someone who did not take a detour (perhaps due to parental pressure, possibly ending in burnout) before manual work?
2023 is the Year of Skills in the European Union, with all kinds of initiatives calling for the recognition of skills and knowledge acquired through non-formal and informal learning, such as work; then let's start by not considering working-class people as automatically "listening to their emotions" and therefore easily duped voters. There are such and such among them.
Just as it would be strong to say about the conversational and the momentary intellectuals, that they do not do politics based on emotions at all, and that they always make a conscious and thoughtful decision before setting the currently trending photo frame on their Facebook profile.
A few months ago, the German ZDF (in an unusually sober moment) produced a very entertaining short film: in a society full of intellectuals, where scientific papers are published in several journals about the socio-economic effects of an annoying pothole, but the pothole is still not filled (in the end, they are forced to write unnecessary diploma theses to fill the hole), the chase starts after the last living saki.
As a solution, the disabled plumber, caught in the face of adversity, offers to teach the desperate young man who turns to him - but there is no happy ending, because the guy turns away, saying that he prefers graphic design and jazz, for example, and otherwise he couldn't imagine just that's how you get into something like that, as someone's apprentice.
Every self-confident intellectual can toy with the idea of which character in this story is more likely to be relevant, and which is the elderly rural Fidesz voter with "few teeth", "driven by emotions" and "basically occupied with livelihood issues". Then maybe we will get closer to deciphering to what extent the cooperation fails due to his lack of education.
