The left-wing parties have already divided the turf: they want to keep North Pest in the hands of the Democratic Coalition.
That is why the Tisza Party has put forward an extremely weak candidate here. We must not allow this!
The Democratic Coalition is holding a post-New Year’s Eve event in North Pest. Their local representative, Balázs Barkóczi, managed to make everyone in the area laugh when he wrote on Facebook that he “demands a hospital for North Pest.”
This is the representative of the very party that, when it was in power, destroyed the healthcare system: they closed hospitals, drove doctors away, and introduced hospital visit fees. Since 2010, the civic government has had to gather everything from the ruins and rebuild it anew. That is why the Democratic Coalition has no place in North Pest either.
🎭 1. Apparent message (surface level)
The text claims that:
- the Democratic Coalition has “divided up” North Pest,
- the Tisza Party deliberately nominated a weak candidate,
- Balázs Barkóczi is ridiculous and unserious,
- the DK “when it was in power” destroyed healthcare,
- everything was bad before 2010 and everything has been “rebuilt from ruins” since then,
- therefore, the DK has no place in North Pest.
This is the shop window.
🎯 2. The REAL function (unstated)
This is not about local issues at all, but about:
- scapegoating (“they ruined everything”),
- activating fear tied to the past (visit fees, hospital closures),
- deflecting attention from present-day problems,
- identity-based rejection (“they don’t belong here”).
The goal is not for you to understand —
but to reject automatically.
🧠 3. Propaganda and psychological techniques used
1️⃣ Collective guilt
“When they were in power…”
– No individual, no decision, no date is attacked,
only an entire group.
2️⃣ Time-jump oversimplification
“Ruins before 2010, rebuilding after 2010”
– Fifteen years flattened into a single sentence,
with no process, no cost, no balance.
3️⃣ Ridicule = delegitimization
“Made everyone laugh”
– No rebuttal, no debate,
just emotional degradation.
4️⃣ Whataboutism (“but you!”)
“Someone who closed hospitals now demands one”
– The present question (Do we need a hospital?)
is replaced by accusations about the past.
5️⃣ False exclusivity
“That’s why the DK doesn’t belong here”
– As if only two states existed:
either them,
or the current power.
🚨 4. What is deliberately missing
There is no:
- a single concrete healthcare statistic about North Pest,
- a single current decision, budget figure, or deadline,
- a real answer to the questions:
- Is there hospital capacity?
- What is missing?
- What is being planned?
This is distraction, not information.
🧩 5. The essence in one sentence
They don’t want you to decide whether North Pest needs a hospital.
They want you to instinctively hate the person who says it out loud.