Hungary General Discussion: With Orban's Victory, Hungarian Democracy is Effectively Dead

[Fight for Trump]

I love Orban.

[afleitch]

I love Orban.

Hope he sees this bro.

[CumbrianLefty]

I love Orban.

How extremely LIBERTARIAN of you.

[Conservatopia]

I love Orban.

If he wasn't so friendly with Putin and Xi I probably would too.

[CumbrianLefty]

I love Orban.

If he wasn't so friendly with Putin and Xi I probably would too.

But that is a feature rather than a bug......

[Frodo]

It looks like the opposition finally have their candidate:

https://twitter.com/herszenhorn/status/1449826969554722820

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

He's mayor of Hódmezővásárhely (pronounced Hudmezuwashahay).
Here's to hoping he can win in 2022.

[Omega21]

It looks like the opposition finally have their candidate:

https://twitter.com/herszenhorn/status/1449826969554722820

It will be beautiful seeing left-wingers turn up to the polls only to have 2 Conservative options

A diverse group of six opposition parties

Translation: A group of 6 opposition parties, including a former borderline Nazi party lol

[PSOL]

MKKP is rising in the polls. Why the f••• are they not apart of the grand alliance?

[YL]

MKKP is rising in the polls. Why the f••• are they not apart of the grand alliance?

Why would the grand alliance include a literal joke party?

(And indeed I suspect that the reason they have had some surprisingly good polls for a joke party is partly that they are not part of the alliance.)

[CumbrianLefty]

MKKP is rising in the polls. Why the f••• are they not apart of the grand alliance?

Who they?

[Astatine]

MKKP is rising in the polls. Why the f••• are they not apart of the grand alliance?

Who they?

The Two-Tailed Dog Party. Even more of a joke party than the German "Die PARTEI" is.

[Conservatopia]

MKKP is rising in the polls. Why the f••• are they not apart of the grand alliance?

Who they?

The Two-Tailed Dog Party. Even more of a joke party than the German "Die PARTEI" is.

An even bigger joke is our Liberal Democrats.

[CumbrianLefty]

Very objective and dispassionate assessment there

[YL]

Based on the list on Wikipedia it seems as if the polls are all over the place, ranging from some quite comfortable Fidesz leads to modest opposition leads.  Curiously, the polls with the large Fidesz leads tend to be those which don't give figures for the Two Tailed Dog Party or Mi Hazánk (a party formed by people who left Jobbik because they weren't fascist enough any more), especially those by Nézőpont and Real-PR 93.

[Frodo]

The full ramifications of Orban's victory have yet to play themselves out, but it is nothing short of a victory for Vladimir Putin and the authoritarian cause more generally:

Europe’s other threat to democracy

What is worse is that there are a growing number of Republicans who want to import this brand of authoritarian illiberal 'democracy' to the United States.

[SnowLabrador]

You see Hungary? That's where we'll be in five years.

[CumbrianLefty]

You see Hungary? That's where we'll be in five years.

For once, you have at least a germ of a point.

Many on the right of politics in both the US and Europe adore Orban and openly hope to emulate him.

[Person Man]

You see Hungary? That's where we'll be in five years.

I was there to fix my missing tooth last week. I got an implant, two fillings, and a crown for another tooth that I almost lost all for $800. It feels good to have all my teeth again. Anyways, the mall at the train station smelled like sewage because the train station has porta-potties and no indoor plumbing. You can especially smell it at the Mc Donald's next to the train station. There's a reason that place is so cheap. There's definitely a change in culture within Europe between a "red state" like Hungary and a "blue state" li the Ille-de-France or North Holland. I did stopovers in the latter. Parents just let their kids do whatever they wanted and I almost tripped on them several times. In Budapest, I saw a guy beat his dog in public just for barking. If you go people watching in any of these countries, at their malls, it will basically explain to you EVERYTHING.

Parts of Europe suck for the same reasons why parts of America suck. And the respective other parts of America and Europe suck for the exact opposite reasons. That's why I moved out of Florida and would need like a 70% raise to even consider moving to California, even if it wasn't into the Bay Area.

[DavidB.]

There's definitely a change in culture within Europe between a "red state" like Hungary and a "blue state" li the Ille-de-France or North Holland.

I read this and now my eyes are hurting.