Miklos K. Radvanyi, vice president of the Frontiers of Freedom Institute provided an analysis for Gulyáságyú Média. / Radványi Miklós, az egyesült államokbeli republikánus think-tank, a Frontiers of Freedom Institute alelnöke angol nyelvű elemzése a Gulyáságyú Média számára.
Nyitóképünkön: Orbán Viktor miniszterelnök a magyar Országgyűlés plenáris ülésén ül. Forrás: MTI/Miniszterelnöki Kommunikációs Főosztály/Kaiser Ákos.
Támogatóink hozzájárulása nélkül ez a cikkünk sem készülhetett volna el. Ne csak olvassa, támogassa is lapunkat: kattintson ide.
Slow national death
In politics, the Hungarian misanthropy has always manifested itself in a perverted aggrandizement of the tyrant du jour by the moronic subjects who have never acquired even a minimal degree of political culture to comprehend the lethal destructiveness of the oppressor’s irredeemable megalomania. From the shortsighted reign of King Stephen I to the equally myopic Gangsterocracy of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Hungary has been experiencing a slow national death.
Characterized by utter incompetence, extreme corruption and ruthless self-interest to the detriment of the Hungarian nation, Viktor Orban and his equally corrupt retinue have become the archenemies of their own country and almost all the other states across the globe.
Under Viktor Orban’s and his FIDESZ Party’s two-decade reign, the historical immortality of Hungarian preference for placing personal material gains ahead of public good has consistently turned the nation’s sovereignty into its most abhorrent perversion, which is
tyranny. Thus, monopolistic pursuit of private interests, proclivity for the temporal, an almost godly reverence for the “animality” rather than the “soul”, have all become perpetual “Hungarian” traits in the nation’s 21st political intellection too.
Predictably, the result has been an out-and-out non-existence of public as well as individual morality. Compounding this absolute personal infeasibility has been the equally absolute absence of independent public institutions because they have been poisoned by unconstrained selfish intentions. Such glorification of limitless immoderation, dishonesty and outright corruption, have made it virtually impossible to create a democratic society. The historically enduring hopes of betterment, such as the 1990 collapse of the Sovietized vassal “People’s Republic,” Hungary has fallen once again into the same tyrannical trap that historically has rendered any progress toward a healthy state a morbid anachronism.
Orban’s path
To complete this unfavorable description of today’s Hungary, we must go back to the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The death pangs of the Soviet Union became obvious after the demise of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev in November 1982. For this reason, the Janos Kadar-led Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party (Hungarian acronym MSZMP) began to save its faux Communist dictatorship for the future. For this purpose, the so-called Istvan Bibo College (in Hungarian Bibo Istvan Szakkollegium) at the Eotvos Lorand Scientific University was established in 1983.
Headed by Istvan Stumpf the son-in-law of the then Minister of Interior Istvan Horvath, members of the College were selected because of their personal and their families’ proven loyalty to the ruling party. Viktor Orban, then a student at the Faculty of Political and Legal Sciences, was the eldest son of a Communist Party Secretary.
The College’s name was clearly chosen to mislead everybody. Istvan Bibo was an intellectual in resolute opposition to the Communist regime’s tyranny, and stood for personal integrity, truth-telling, civic courage, and democratic values. Moreover, following the brutal putdown of the 1956 uprising, Bibo was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment. Essentially, the pre-1990 tyrants wanted to preserve the Communist regime’s dictatorial structure by laundering its false image to the future.
Complete tyranny
In this manner, Hungary has never experienced a genuine regime change. It only went through a tentative attempt to establish a more open state than the one that existed prior to 1990. However, in 2010, with the return to power of Viktor Orban and his party, the restoration of the pre-1990 tyranny was completed.
Today, Viktor Orban’s “Illiberal Democracy” is nothing but the illegitimate obliteration of democratic legitimacy. The fact that such a tyranny has triumphed in Hungary in the 21st century will remain a lasting shame for NATO as well as the EU. In reality, Orban’s counterfeit constitutional order has made a ridiculous mockery of Western civilization and its fundamental values. Lugubriously, most of the leaders of both organizations, with their limited knowledge of Hungary, have mistaken authoritarian strength with genuine electoral support and the sudden enrichment of a very narrow circle as a sign of general wellbeing of the entire population.
Collectively, they also have failed to realize that Orban’s “Illiberal Democracy” has led Hungary into the greatest political, economic and moral misery of its troubled history. Barely surviving from day to day, present day Hungary is in the throes of civil war.
In international relations, Viktor Orban has practiced “strategic ambiguity” by keeping his foreign policy treacherously vague. Simultaneously, playing Russia and China on the one hand and the two Western organizations on the other against each other, he has danced on the precipice of aggression and destruction. Thus, claiming to stand on the side of “peace,” he has deceived both himself and the rest of the world.
The upcoming Budapest meeting between Presidents Trump and Putin will take place in a country, in which usurpation of power negates the proper relationship between tyrannical force and impartial justice.
Under these circumstances, President Trump must have the same strength of command that he demonstrated recently in the Middle East to neutralize Orban’s self-serving hypocrisy and President Putin’s illegitimate aggression with the rightful demand of Ukraine for the restoration of the status quo ante in Eastern Europe.
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