Hungary's antidote to dangerous woke virus

"Wokeness may be a complex, dangerous infection, but there is a simple antidote. The 'signature cocktail' of Hungarian politics is just what the doctor ordered. No war, no migration, no gender – and a refusal to play by the liberals’ rules," writes the director general of the Budapest-based Center for Fundamental Rights in the American Daily Caller.

WORLD JANUARY 3. 2024 17:31

Miklos Szantho wrote an opinion piece in the American news outlet saying that recently Hungary has been making the news often, with Prime Minister Viktor Orban upsetting „the delicate sensibilities of the progressive liberals”, and making Americans curious about „this distant country that has become a prickly thorn in the side of the globalist Left”, the Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet quoted from his piece.

An “age of discovery in reverse” has started, writes Dr Szantho, as public figures from Tucker Carlson to Jordan Peterson to Micheal Knowles explore Hungary for themselves.

„Hungary’s past is indeed fascinating. Many have dug our graves, but fell into theirs long before us,” he continued recalling that „our nation was always surrounded – and invaded often enough – by empires (…) Each of these great powers sought to assimilate us, either by conquest or cultural domination, but all failed. The Hungarian nation and the state will remain Hungarian no matter what. We will outlast all those who hope to subjugate us,” the think tank director emphasised.

 

He added, „We have always taken our borders seriously and controlled them effectively; respected our religious roots and guarded our state sovereignty and constitutional traditions. The family is the cornerstone of our society. We have also recognized that demographics is not just a matter of sovereignty, but a geopolitical challenge as well.”

At the intersection of several empires, „wars between them resulted in us paying the price, as we became a battlefield or a fortified outpost,” he recalled, stressing that every time the guns gave way to trade and diplomacy, Hungary prospered.

„Our interests lie in staying out of wars and maintaining a peaceful and connected world, not in ‘decoupling’ and a new Cold War,” the director-general noted. He believes that this stance is often misrepresented by the progressive Left. „We are absolutely committed to the West (…) But we do not want it to become encased in an intolerant, totalitarian ideology and isolated from the world.”

According to Miklos Szantho, „progressives rejoice at the prospect of a new Cold War because they hope to impose the most extreme form of their ideology through fear and isolation”.

On the progressive side, he explained, wokeness „is a very obvious form of Marxism. The Church of Woke is godless and rootless. It attacks historical and cultural traditions; seeks to dismantle state sovereignty; undermines our Judeo-Christian ethics and national identities; subverts the family and brainwashes children. Wokeness ticks every Marxist box”.

„Hungary is the last place – certainly in Europe – where people can speak their minds. A country still led by elected politicians, not ruled by a bureaucratic deep state,” Dr Szantho writes, adding that „the rest of the continent has sunk into a swamp of harmful self-deception and tragic lies”.

The head of the Center for Fundamental Rights believes that Hungary alone „obviously, cannot pull our civilization out of the ‘neoliberal global order’s’ swamp of despair”. The key is an international alliance of national forces from around the world, he stressed, „the cooperation of people of good will and common sense from all over but especially from America”.

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