Hungary and Prime Minister Orbán have been being attacked for its “illiberalism” recently. Even President Obama has made a quite hostile remark about Hungary:
From Russia to China to Venezuela, you are seeing relentless crackdowns, vilifying legitimate dissent as subversive. In places like Azerbaijan, laws make it incredibly difficult for NGOs even to operate. From Hungary to Egypt, endless regulations and overt intimidation increasingly target civil society
And Obama has let the (poor) cat out of the bag in the same speech. This sentence speaks for itself:
I believe America’s support for civil society [in foreign countries] is a matter of national security [for the USA].
Can they?
In case somebody didn’t know, Obama included Hungary in that list because of the Norway Civil Fund … which is not so Norwegian after all. For more details about this matter, see my earlier post titled Epic fail.
No doubt the current USA leadership really wants their “liberal” stooges back in power, the postcommies who call themselves “democratic opposition”. Since Fidesz has been supported by about half of the decided Hungarian voters for quite a while, and the five or so “democratic parties” stand at less than 20% altogether, a “colour revolution” has got slim chances in Hungary. After the national elections in April and the European Parliament elections in May, Fidesz is going to win its third landslide election next week on the local elections.
Anyway, let’s see what Orbán said in a speech a few days ago, a few days before Obama’s speech.
No smaller task is ahead of us than trying to establish a new Hungarian state, independent of the taboo system of political correctness well-established in Western Europe, which would make our (national) community successful in the worldwide race. It’s important to note that the thoughts of Adenauer or Schuman, the great figures of Christian democracy, wouldn’t qualify politically correct in Eurospeak today. So Christian democracts must not be scared even if the high priests of the Liberal Sect demand our excommunication louder and louder. This way they would excommunicate the great figures of Christian democracy as well from European politics. The supporters of liberal democracy think something is either liberal democracy or it is not a democracy. They can do so only because they think what they represent is the exclusively right point of view. That is how the majority principle gets replaced with the principle of “kizárólagosság” and this is how the liberal and democratic principles become contradictory. [Leto’s remark: “kizárólagosság” means “exclusivity” but “absolutism” may be actually more appropriate in this context.]
The liberals defend themselves from the unpleasant feeling of being in the minority this way . This may be understandable from a psychological point of view but it’s absolutely not acceptable in a dispute about principles, values and eventually in a dispute about choosing political models.
The will of the majority is something you cannot circumvent in a democracy, in a European democracy. There are several acceptable forms of democracy. Democracy is not necessarily liberal and if something is not liberal then it may still be democracy. The liberals always want people believe one can choose only between two possibilities. One of the most important issues in the future is that we, Hungarians should avoid this dead end [Leto’s remark: that is this false dichotomy, black-and-white-thinking]. We must keep on agenda what democracy means in Europe. It’s imperative that we state that a political community may have other goals than realizing abstract principles and abstract trains of thoughts. Such goals could be ensuring one’s (biological) survival and defending one’s basic beliefs.
Our politics, what we followed in the recent years, also goes against the interests of political groups which are built on the taboo system of political correctness. So they are not choosey with the tools and methods they employ. If you don’t accept today’s monopolistic liberal value system then you’ll be a supporter of dictatorship and they will mention you together with China, Russia or Singapore. Of course they themselves know their claim is false since Hungary is an inseparable part of the West. Even Communism and the Soviet Union couldn’t uproot us from there. This is why we are a member of the European Union and NATO, too.
Politics in Hungary 
Kierk
/ 04/10/2014Orban is well-expressed. EU-skeptics in Denmark have recently remarked that the EU has been able and willing to co-operate. That its taboo system has relaxed.
I hope that the EU will cease remaining negative when it comes to Hungary. With Juncker there might be an improvement.
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Leto مؤدّب
/ 04/10/2014Hello Kierk,
Thanks for your comment.
Recently the EU seems to have become a lot less ‘negative when it comes to Hungary’. These days they are really nothing like how they related to Hungary in 2012-13 (when the Hungarian parliament passed a new, non-liberal Constitution which made a reference to Hungary’s 1000 year Christian culture, the Holy Crown of Hungary and which defined marriage as a “union of a man and a woman”, etc.)
Now it’s the USA which has apparently picked up the thread…
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