And these current limited ones still don't deal with the problem - they create it. In accordance with their infinitely exclusionary thinking, they consider the main problem to be the strengthening of the right wing. Written by Zsolt Ungváry.
Marxism-Leninism, supported by the military power of the Soviet Union, proudly proclaimed that communism was the perfect system that humanity was striving for, and anyone who doubted this would be discouraged by administrative means.
But they never announced that they had arrived at communism, the remaining long-term goal, because it is obvious that Canaan had not yet arrived. That's why they tried to improve the system with a certain "I'm angry for you, not against you" attitude, so that when communism came, it would really be perfect.
The European Union has managed to surpass this principle, and according to the Brussels bureaucrats, there is nowhere to improve if
somewhere, Euroscepticism rears its head (so the support of the alliance is not 100 percent), they immediately start shaking their heads or ringing the alarm bell.
Most recently, the Austrian survey - according to which a quarter of the population in our western neighbor would leave - blew the fuse, and the reaction now (which also happened with the Rákosi's) is not that "comrades, we will correct the mistakes if there are any", but it is stigmatized, dehumanized with various negative adjectives, and those who have doubts are beaten into the ground.
I don't remember an answer such as "we examine other aspects", "we build on the criticism", "we modify this and that", "we are patient with different views".
Instead, they ban events they don't like, and make people, parties and peoples who have reservations look stupid. They never take the trouble to think about it, or even formulate it as a footnote, wondering why more and more people are disillusioned with the European project?
But they should at least listen and with a little empathic roar, count those who have been demoted to second-rate because they want a different kind of Europe (by the way, much more in line with the original ideas).
It never occurs to those who belong to the mainstream that they are doing something wrong, that something should be changed.
However, if something goes wrong, it's better to fix it first, because if we use a word of power to say that it's good ("Orange. I don't open a dispute"), it won't work, and in the end the whole thing has to be thrown away. There was a good idea, let us Europeans get together, because - as Otto Habsburg put it - there is much more that unites us than divides us.
An Austro-Hungarian Monarchy-like union in which from Lemberg to Trieste there are no borders, no customs, the same money, the same country, but more people. (And well, whatever we think of Ferenc Jóska, he is an Ursula von der Leyen compared to him...)
The initially good, loose cooperation (which seemed to be liked by almost everyone) started to be messed with, made tighter, and the rules, goals, and ideology changed.
Not everyone liked this anymore, so they started forcing people out of line.
(Let's just say the English didn't let up and silently beckoned. However, this did not encourage the lords of the rings to consider, be lenient, listen to the other, but instead chose open violence and retaliation. This usually works for a while, but when the pot is overturned, it is very falls over.)
We see that the Europe of our dreams no longer exists, and perhaps never will. The ideal Europe, the period of freedom and prosperity happened without us and partly on our account. And these current limited ones still do not deal with the problem, but create it. In accordance with their infinitely exclusionary thinking, they consider the main problem to be the strengthening of the right wing.
Again, they do not look for the causes, but rather condemn the consequence.
They fear and loathe everything that really created Europe, what was its essence - and they see as a guide what destroyed it: the atheistic Enlightenment and liberalism, then Marxist Bolshevism, and finally the identity-destroying woke culture.
By the way, Europeans have not been very successful in their efforts to organize the continent in recent centuries.
When the great minds got together to tell each other what to do from a desk, they always made the wrong decision.
The status quo of the Congress of Vienna collapsed just as the order of the Congress of Berlin led to the First World War and that of Versailles led to the Second World War. The Paris Peace Agreements sanctioned the Soviet occupation, the end of the Cold War did not bring a long-term solution either, the West did not want to integrate, but to occupy and rob the countries emerging from behind the Iron Curtain.
Now they are lost again; they cannot find the remedy to deal with migration and war, or to fulfill human rights (freedom of speech, right to life).
We Hungarians, in particular, have not had much joy from the West's gestures so far.
Apart from the recapture of Buda from the Turks and the two Vienna decisions, we have received nothing in a thousand years. It would be difficult to list what they took. At such times, it is difficult for us to enjoy the values of the superior Europe unclouded. As Jenő Dsida put it:
What do Dante's terzis mean to me now,
and what did Goethe's soul conceive,
when
the earth is already falling on my dead blood and the han is rumbling,
when the trombone of the tumultuous age
knocks down walls and shakes the soul,
when we have to teach our sons forgotten, ancient words
,
when the silence of the villages terrifies me
and we are overwhelmed by nothingness
and we have to give birth and give birth
and hammer
our withered children into our own image!
What do I care about history
and what once was!
Can you be wise, can you be a poet,
when your mother is screaming?!
Europe, my great master,
look what your adopted son has become!
What a foul-mouthed, vile,
perverted and denying student.
The soaked rope patted him
until he ran away and got scared.
The earth hurts and the sun hurts
and everything hurts, my song,
but anyone who hasn't been Hungarian
doesn't know what pain is!
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