Genuine question from an American of Hungarian descent. Do y’all approve of what Orbán is doing? I read the news concerning Hungary nearly every day and it’s like Orbán can’t stop trying to be a dictator.
Hell, I can’t even access the eleveltar website anymore, because they’ve blocked access to anyone outside Hungary.
This man seems wildly out of control, much like Trump.
You’re an entire ocean away and reading news articles doesn’t paint the full picture.. because of propaganda. Even you must comprehend that. I don’t understand the negativity towards me simply asking what others feel.
Or are you triggered? Because you’re acting like an American Republican.
Okay so it's more than a bit complicated here thanks to every day being different bad (sometimes good) news in the past 3 months, from new scandals to new anti-democratic laws. But in general, we have about a 30% of people who just want to live their life's and rather not get political, hate OV but dont trust MP so even if they'l go vote, it will be a wasted one.
Then the 40-20% (depending on time of day really) of Fidesz voters, most are past-retirement age and cant be, wont be moved away even if the sun explodes; these people lived their entire past-USSR lifes voting for Orban and sunk-cost fallacy combined with an unhealthy dose of Dunning–Kruger effect means the only way they will cange their mind if these changes from Fidesz will DIRECTLY affect their every day for the worse, which havent happened yet in a very large scale.
And then the rest of the 30%-35% are TISZA and other opposition. We would be more positive and hopefull if we didnt know from experience that Fidesz can and will bring last-minute change in law and voting systems thanks to the power grip they hold in the parlament. and about a 100 other technical loopholes they can use. Then the worry about how the other oppositon doesnt like TISZA and would rather be happy in the status quo that was the last 15 years, the expensive propaganda campaign going on against everything that isnt russian, frenzied Fidesz voters actually attacking people (yes, this has and keeps happening in places), etc. In short, this is what your next 4 years will be, have fun brother. :(
Sorry for my fellow countryman's reaction, everybody is on the edge. Yes, OV is as bad as DT, I think they are sharing notes how to be as anti-democratic as possible.
Fewer and fewer people. The one's who do are normally profiteers of the twisted system, or are the kind of people who live in the countryside, have little time left, have little to hope for, spent their entire under the Com/Soc rule, etc. These people do not care about much, just swallow the propaganda and handwave away the ever-worsening conditions, saying "We'll figure it out" or "I don't care, just wanna live in peace for the time I have left". With every ridiculous and appalling statement FIDESZ makes and every scandal, the undecided voters seem to be slowly flocking to the TISZA supporter base.
your president removed orban\`s most important henchman from the OFAC GLOMAG list for bribes mate. i repeat: orban BRIBED donald trump to remove antal rogan from the sanctions list ILLEGALLY and nobody does anything about it. congress, fbi, nsa, senate, doj - nobody.
i dont think hungary is the place where you should start looking around.
I’m well aware Trump is the equivalent of Hitler. I didn’t vote for him, nor did anyone I know. He’s systematically stripping away all our rights and fucking up the rest of the planet in the process.
Thanks for the unprovoked attack though. 👍
im not attacking you im just letting you know that the usa is openly supporting this communist dictatorship therefore we are massively fxcked.
there is zero chance to remove this POS orban now that the usa became a corrupt 3rd world banana republic led by a demented convicted criminal openly supporting an antisemitistic russian agent and its crime organization in hungary.
That sounds strikingly similar to America right now. The majority supporting Trump are the easily-brainwashed older generation and fascists (who are generally too stupid to understand their own thoughts).
There’s also a very strong rise in straight white men discussing and actually raping women with no repercussions. And with the laws how they are now (thanks Trump) women are forced to carry that rapist’s child. It’s so disgusting and vile.
I cannot speak in every Hungarian’s name but I strongly believe that the majority of our nation disagree with Orban’s political decisions.
The issue is that they have a 2/3 majority in the government therefore they can easily accept whatever laws or legistlations they create. There are no option to stop these changes at the moment.
There will be an election next year and we feel that that election might be the last democratic election if Orban’s party win again.
Also, especially elderly people from the countryside area, they believe the propaganda from the TV and radio, it is very difficult to tell them that what they see and hear is propaganda not the actual truth. We’re talking about a lot of people so they can actually make difference in the upcoming elections.
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