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ELI5 what is wrong with Hungary?
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this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2023
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Victor Orban is a fascist and he's spent the last 13 years seeking to turn Hungary into a fascist state. He controls the judiciary. He controls the media. He scapegoats Jews, Muslims and refugees for the country's problems. He aligns himself with Putin.
Fascists inherently don't like cross-border cooperation and supranational governance - it runs against all their beliefs about their nation's superiority. So he doesn't like the EU either and blames it for things to his domestic audiences. There is no press freedom in Hungary and so Hungarian voters get bombarded with this nonsense.
The EU needs to recognise that an enemy of European civilisation has been given the keys to the castle. That is a dangerous situation. It is time to invoke Article 7 to recognise that Hungary is acting against the EU's founding values, and remove Hungary's veto.
As a hungarian i completely agree with this. I think its hopeless so im moving away...
Hey, my wife and her sister moved away about 12 years ago ... it was absolutely the right thing for both of them.
Anyone even halfway intelligent is better off moving away from Hungary. I feel sorry for those who can't speak a foreign language and thus are stuck there.
i assume to Austria
Nope not even close. Sweden
not expected lol
Yeah, the short version is: Fascism is what's wrong with Hungary.
One thing you neglected to mention is the rampant corruption which tends to involve EU money going into projects run by people close to Orban. Orban somehow manages to massively profit off EU money while running ad campaigns villainizing EU leader-du-jour (currently von der Leyen) as being a puppet of George Soros. Anywho, that's why the EU regional aid money being blockaded is such a big deal to Hungarian leadership.
You didn't mention, but they have a good line in scapegoating LGBT people too. They follow Russia as close as possible on that front.
How can this dude look at himself and believe anything about superiority? Or Hungary, a mediocre country at best.
It used to be an empire. And conmen can get rich by telling people that it could be one again.
He'd like it to be an empire again...