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> the way 2024 has been going so far, I strongly suspect that Orban will at a minimum lose his 2/3 majority in 2026, possibly the election. He has a 2/3 majori
by CRConrad 2y ago
> the way 2024 has been going so far, I strongly suspect that Orban will at a minimum lose his 2/3 majority in 2026, possibly the election.
He has a 2/3 majority?!? And won't (possibly) lose it until 2026? How long has it been known that he's a raging nutjob and asshole -- one decade, or several? Possibly losing his huge majority in over a year from now... That's far too little, far too late.
> But you see, there are 5.2M people in the voting pool who did not vote for Orban, so it's not true that hungarians in general are "right-wing nutjobs".
Enough of them are indifferent enough to right-wing nutjobbery not to vote against Orban's right-wing nutjobbery, which makes them enablers of him and it.
Over time I've come to think that all peoples are in the end responsible for their own leadership: If a majority of the people is against oppression, then they should vote against it. If they can't vote, they should rise in revolution. If they don't, they're not sufficiently against it to warrant being called civilised.
That's why Germans carried (and to some extent still carry?) a collective responsibility for Nazism (and anew do so for the AfD and BSW nutjobs they're voting into power nowadays); why Russians carry a collective responsibility for Putin (and before him, for Stalin. And Ivan IV); and why Hungarians carry a collective responsibility for Orban.
IMO.