It is not ethnic politicization that must end, but conceptless drifting, political parasitism and anti-politicization.
Some mix public life in the highlands with a funeral mass and carry flowers to the hill, which they think is a grave. But it's not actually a grave, but the place of the pile of three, from which the sign sprouts, which - freely after Esterházy - is our sign. It shows us the way.
Of course, it is not an easy path, no one said that I want to become an artificial minority in politics, but this is the path that the good Lord has chosen for us.
- publicist Ákos Csonka said about ethnic politicization to Ma7.
How would ethnic politicization end? Out of the question! In our more than 100-year-old community, there were much more difficult periods, but history did not end. That there is a crisis is indisputable. The emergence of crisis is a natural consequence of bad leaders, a series of wrong decisions and impulses instead of strategy.
It is not ethnic politicization that must end, but conceptless drifting, political parasitism and anti-politicization.
Of course, in this chaos, this is not a small task, but at the moment I see a person in the public life of the Highlands who has the talent, charisma, connections and political knowledge to do it. This is László Gubík. I can identify with what he outlined in his program announcer interview.
There are about half a million of us in the Felvidék who claim to be Hungarian and/or their mother tongue is Hungarian. There are tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of people in the Highlands who, although they are not Hungarian in their identity, speak Hungarian at some level, have many ties to Hungarian culture, or simply live together with Hungarians in the southern part of the country (not to mention those who belong to one of the categories they don't even belong, let's just say they sympathize with the Hungarians or Viktor Orbán's policies, etc.).
This is such a large block that, with normal politicking, thoughtful, reasonable messages and communication, it would not only be sufficient to cross the 5% threshold, but even double it. The previous administrations could not get 5% of the 8-10%, in Transylvania they make 6-7% of the 5%. So whoever envisions the end of ethnic politicization is only looking for an excuse for the easier, but wrong, way of almsgiving. However, this is not the path of Hungarians from the highlands. Jesus Christ did not run on his way to Golgotha either. Neither will we!
Cover photo: Ákos Csonka Facebook
