There are governments - or, as far as I know, only one in Europe, the Hungarian one - that are curious about what voters think about issues important to the country. And there are parties that don't.
If these almost invisible but still vocal political losers had any sense, they would not urge people not to fill out the national consultation forms, but would adopt the criminal method of their former leader, Gy. Ferenc. The government of the aforementioned figure deserved to be the title of a Hungarian film made in 1974: Illatos út a semmbe, but its only success was, unfortunately, the ominous referendum.
Then he did not urge them not to vote, but to vote - against dual citizenship.
(For those who haven't seen or don't remember the mentioned film, in it we saw an attempt to cover up the embezzlement of three leading comrades - understand: we brought back governance from the sz@ with hundreds of tricks that you don't need to know about.)
All three remaining members of the MSZP, which can only be found in virtual space, put their heads together and issued a statement. I know that if I deal with them for even just three sentences, I'm already overestimating their importance, but somehow I can't leave the concentrated stupidity without a word.
These unfortunates claim that the national consultation is not an authentic tool for social dialogue. Of course not, it's more of a rabbit. Or a roller coaster. After all, if we ask the opinion of the citizens, it can only be populism (which, by the way, they only think is pejorative, we think that a government has a dog-like duty to be populist, i.e. anti-elite and anti-globalist), because the people, the God-given people, are stupid, the left-liberal, globalist side, on the other hand, is smart and the it's their right - instead of us! - to tell the truth.
It is another absurdity to mention Rogan's propaganda, and that polling people is only good for Fidesz to update the "Kubatov list". It's serious rudeness, but it's common for the Komcs to accuse us of what they themselves are stupid for. Comrade Tán Bajnai and DatAdat don't exist? And the data of many thousands of Hungarian citizens was not released (abroad)?
While the existence of the alleged Kubatov list is only a legend, DatAdate's is clearly real.
Of course, the globalists are only interested in reality to the extent that it bothers them, so they don't even bother with it. How much they don't is evident from their further ineptitude. They envision growing, or more precisely, worsening poverty, and of course they complain about economic difficulties.
The latter, the economic difficulty, is a fact, although not due to the mistakes of Hungarian economic policy. All the soldiers of the opposition side are well aware of this, but it is appropriate for them to act as if they do not know.
As if the entire EU membership does not suffer from the stupidity of the "leadership" and its consequences. As if the Hungarian economy does not depend on the success or decline of the German one.
It is simpler and more politically profitable (at least they think so) if they pretend that it is all the fault of the Hungarian government.
As for the growth and even worsening of poverty, it wouldn't hurt if someone from the top leadership of the party learned to read. Then they could find out - and I'm not saying this, but it can be read on the website of Világgazdaság, which has little sympathy for the government - how we are doing with this. I quote:
"In Hungary, between 2015 and 2021, the proportion of the population at risk of poverty or social exclusion decreased from 30.6 to 19.4 percent, which means a decrease of 1.1 million people. The indicator has been more favorable than the EU average since 2018."
It is interesting, poverty in our country is getting worse in a special way, even though it is constantly decreasing. Of course, we know, according to our leftist friends, those who are not suspicious are the ones who are suspicious, so it is understandable that those who do not become poor will become poorer and poorer.
The former (?) Reds are shouting all this to the world so that they can use the momentary method with a bad memory and call on the "anti-Orbán forces" not to participate in the national consultation and to send them their unfilled questionnaires. I don't really understand what this would be good for, unless they try to alleviate their financial difficulties by selling the collected papers. In other words: head to the BEE colony. They are loyal to the social slogan: Collect paper (originally iron) and metal, you also protect peace!
Because what happens if X fewer consultation forms reach the evaluators? Nothing in the world.
At most, the opinions supporting the government program will gain an even greater preponderance than they would if they adopted the "vote no" basic position of Ferenc Gy.
I would like to remind you that the consultation is not a referendum, there is no validity threshold, so there is no point in the paper collection campaign.
But if it appeals to them, then just collect, someone else has already collected, it was called Momentum.
Nomen est omen, what happened to them? Their existence is only a small, albeit very harmful moment in the political palette.
But shut up, dead or good or nothing. So nothing.
György Tóth Jr
Cover image: Delivery of consultation forms is in full swing
Source: MTI Photo/Zoltán Balogh