I haven't seen "The Prestige", Christopher Nolan's film. I've only read about it.
In one of the sequences, the magician puts a small bird in a box and then flattens the box. Of all the spectators, only one child is terrified and cries, convinced that the bird has been killed. The magic number continues and the illusionist approaches the little boy, taking out of his sleeve a bird that looks identical to the one in the crushed box. It's alive!, he shows it triumphantly. The audience applauds, everyone believes him, except for the kid who insists and insists that it's not the same bird... The show ends, the people leave, the lights go out and the magician throws the crushed bird into the basket where many others have already gathered...
Somehow, Hungary, Serbia and Slovakia seem to be those children distrustful of the tricks of Brussels and others... at the risk of being stigmatized, labeled, they refuse to let their economy and implicitly the right to set their own path be crushed...
Good article. I'm in Ireland where we have an election on Friday. There is No right wing political party to vote for but we do have a very large anti European-Globalist amount of independent candidates running in the election so it could be very interesting as I myself have been canvassing for one of these independents and from my experience the main political parties will have a problem getting a majority. Fingers crossed for Ireland.
The EU is a parody of the USSR, and in the worst performance of the "original". Well, if healthy nationalism is called "pragmatism", that's not bad. A government that cares about its (!) citizens is quite natural , realistic and achievable, rather than Brussels' "care" for all and , and ...About no one ! ** I fondly remember the Hungarian Ikarus buses , which transported more than a hundreds million Soviet citizens .Maybe the Poles will finally return to shipbuilding?!
You can add Romania to that list! (Although the US State Dept is sure to throw it's weight into changing that outcome in round 2)
In the continuation of well-established trend observed across Western democracies, yet another populist, nationalist, right-wing candidate has posted an election result that far exceeded what polls indicated he was capable of. The latest upset took place in Romania on Sunday, and it has positioned a NATO critic and Ukraine war skeptic to potentially take over the country's presidency.
With 99% of ballots tallied, populist Calin Georgescu led all 13 candidates with 23% of votes, edging the Save Romania Union Party's Elena Lasconi and Prime Minister and Social Democratic Party member Marcel Ciolacu -- who had 19.17% and 19.16%, respectively. Another right-winger -- the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians' George Simion -- placed fourth with 13.87%. That sets the NATO- and EU-member country up for a second-round vote on Dec. 8 against either Lasconi or Ciolacu; Simion has already thrown his support behind Georgescu.
Poland's center-right party is like ten thousand miles from pragmatism. The chairman of PiS to this date still insists the Smolensk air crash was the work of Russia. The party has just picked a guy on Russia's wanted list to be its presidential candidate.
The only Polish party in favor of good relations with Russia and China is the fringe Konfederacja, currently polling 13%.
Well, let's add that the left-liberal West stands with its mouth open and does not understand why the majority of Hungarians have elected the (in their opinion, despot, dictator, etc.) Orbán for the fourth time in a row ! It is very simple, because we Hungarians see and experience that Orbán does not serve the Western multinational circles, betraying his own country as the traitorous leaders do in Germany, England, France, etc. but if necessary he confronts the idiots in Brussels for his own country ! I would like to note that it can never happen here in Hungary (while Orbán is in power!) like in Keir Starmer's England that a Briton can be imprisoned for two years because he used a critical tone towards the government on the Internet. I think this is dictatorship and this despotism, but strangely the Brussels leadership does not pay attention to this !
I liked your article. It's sad that the globalist West wants to impose their radical social ideas on the world. I'm living it daily in the USA.
That’s why Trump won.
I haven't seen "The Prestige", Christopher Nolan's film. I've only read about it.
In one of the sequences, the magician puts a small bird in a box and then flattens the box. Of all the spectators, only one child is terrified and cries, convinced that the bird has been killed. The magic number continues and the illusionist approaches the little boy, taking out of his sleeve a bird that looks identical to the one in the crushed box. It's alive!, he shows it triumphantly. The audience applauds, everyone believes him, except for the kid who insists and insists that it's not the same bird... The show ends, the people leave, the lights go out and the magician throws the crushed bird into the basket where many others have already gathered...
Somehow, Hungary, Serbia and Slovakia seem to be those children distrustful of the tricks of Brussels and others... at the risk of being stigmatized, labeled, they refuse to let their economy and implicitly the right to set their own path be crushed...
Good article. I'm in Ireland where we have an election on Friday. There is No right wing political party to vote for but we do have a very large anti European-Globalist amount of independent candidates running in the election so it could be very interesting as I myself have been canvassing for one of these independents and from my experience the main political parties will have a problem getting a majority. Fingers crossed for Ireland.
The EU is a parody of the USSR, and in the worst performance of the "original". Well, if healthy nationalism is called "pragmatism", that's not bad. A government that cares about its (!) citizens is quite natural , realistic and achievable, rather than Brussels' "care" for all and , and ...About no one ! ** I fondly remember the Hungarian Ikarus buses , which transported more than a hundreds million Soviet citizens .Maybe the Poles will finally return to shipbuilding?!
Great post, very informative!!
Very good piece. I just got back from a five-day trip to Hungary, meeting numerous government officials there. Just posted in the past few hours – a potential complement to this: https://edwardmdruce.substack.com/p/how-does-a-political-party-stay-in
To be fair, the right wing is on the ascendancy in all countries of the EU. A lot of them in very similar situations.
It is quite clear: The population rejects its (leftwing) elite. But the elite believes they have the right to power and will not relinquish it.
You can add Romania to that list! (Although the US State Dept is sure to throw it's weight into changing that outcome in round 2)
In the continuation of well-established trend observed across Western democracies, yet another populist, nationalist, right-wing candidate has posted an election result that far exceeded what polls indicated he was capable of. The latest upset took place in Romania on Sunday, and it has positioned a NATO critic and Ukraine war skeptic to potentially take over the country's presidency.
With 99% of ballots tallied, populist Calin Georgescu led all 13 candidates with 23% of votes, edging the Save Romania Union Party's Elena Lasconi and Prime Minister and Social Democratic Party member Marcel Ciolacu -- who had 19.17% and 19.16%, respectively. Another right-winger -- the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians' George Simion -- placed fourth with 13.87%. That sets the NATO- and EU-member country up for a second-round vote on Dec. 8 against either Lasconi or Ciolacu; Simion has already thrown his support behind Georgescu.
Poland's center-right party is like ten thousand miles from pragmatism. The chairman of PiS to this date still insists the Smolensk air crash was the work of Russia. The party has just picked a guy on Russia's wanted list to be its presidential candidate.
The only Polish party in favor of good relations with Russia and China is the fringe Konfederacja, currently polling 13%.
Well, let's add that the left-liberal West stands with its mouth open and does not understand why the majority of Hungarians have elected the (in their opinion, despot, dictator, etc.) Orbán for the fourth time in a row ! It is very simple, because we Hungarians see and experience that Orbán does not serve the Western multinational circles, betraying his own country as the traitorous leaders do in Germany, England, France, etc. but if necessary he confronts the idiots in Brussels for his own country ! I would like to note that it can never happen here in Hungary (while Orbán is in power!) like in Keir Starmer's England that a Briton can be imprisoned for two years because he used a critical tone towards the government on the Internet. I think this is dictatorship and this despotism, but strangely the Brussels leadership does not pay attention to this !
Interesting.
A paean to fascism and the crowd here likes it.
Call me an oldfashioned liberal, but to me, Us v Them is shabby politics, whether US v Red & Yellow Perils, or rightwing populists in Eastern Europe.
I've read about another guy who didn't like liberal elites in Europe a century ago.
Didn't end well.
very informative.