Super month, super year! 😉
With us, even those who don’t vote for us benefit — that’s why Fidesz is the safe choice ❗
Good morning, Szandra! I have a relatively tough question for you.
Go ahead!
Now that February is here, a lot of benefits are coming. We have the 11% wage increase, the 13th and 14th month pensions, the six-month weapons allowance, and we could list even more. In your opinion, which measure was the best, and why?
In my view, overall the best measure is that through all these decisions it becomes clear that we vote for Hungarian families. We do not want to send this money to Ukraine, nor hand it over to multinational corporations. Instead, we want it to stay with Hungarian families.
We want utility costs to remain affordable, fuel prices to stay affordable, family support benefits to continue — such as the personal income tax exemption for mothers under 40 with two children — pensions to remain with pensioners, and wages to increase for those who work.
🔴 1️⃣ “Great month, great year!” – emotional overdrive placed ahead of reality
This is a classic positive emotional preface.
👉 What is it for?
- it sets the reader’s emotional state before any content appears,
- anyone who asks a critical question afterward is framed as someone who “ruins the joy.”
📌 The problem:
- there is no benchmark, no baseline data (inflation, real wages, cost of living),
- the “celebration” does not signal improvement in living conditions, but rather the success of the communication itself.
🔴 2️⃣ “Even those who don’t vote for us benefit” – false universalism
This is a moral superiority claim.
👉 The message:
- “we work for everyone,”
- anyone who criticizes → ungrateful or malicious.
❌ What’s missing:
- impact analysis by social group (low-income earners, single people, renters),
- identification of losers (those for whom these measures bring no real improvement).
📌 Classic framing: “we are good, therefore we don’t have to account for anything.”
🔴 3️⃣ Role-play Q&A – pseudo-interview
“Good morning, Szandra! – Go on!”
👉 This is not an interview, but:
- a pre-written dialogue,
- no real risk of questioning,
- no follow-ups, no contradictions.
📌 Technically:
pseudo-interaction → the illusion of participation, a fully controlled narrative.
🔴 4️⃣ Throwing around numbers without context – numerical shock framing
Examples:
- “11% wage increase”
- “13th–14th month pension”
- “discounts in February”
❌ But:
- no mention of real value,
- no mention of inflation,
- no mention of who this is not enough for.
📌 How it works:
- the number suppresses the real question: “Is it enough to live on?”
🔴 5️⃣ “Affordable utility bills” – normalization of a new kind of poverty
This is one of the most important points — and you clearly sense it.
👉 What is actually happening?
- “utility cost reduction” is no longer a reduction, but a forced correction,
- an additional ~30% cut was needed even for the “world-famous cheap” utilities
because people could not pay their bills.
📌 The propaganda trick:
- presenting the survival threshold as a success,
- framing inability to pay as a moral achievement.
This is poverty framing:
“we don’t live well, but we endure — and that is a virtue.”
🔴 6️⃣ “We don’t send it to Ukraine” – an external enemy as a budgetary explanation
This is a false binary choice:
- either Hungarian families,
- or Ukraine.
❌ In reality:
- no budget line is shown,
- no proportions, no alternatives,
- EU and domestic financial flows are deliberately blurred together.
📌 Function:
to divert attention from problems of internal redistribution.
🔴 7️⃣ “Family-friendly” list – selective eligibility
The list includes:
- young mothers,
- large families,
- pensioners,
- “those who work.”
❌ Left out:
- single parents,
- renters,
- part-time workers,
- low-wage, childless workers.
📌 This is not universal policy, but a narrow loyalty package.
🔴 8️⃣ The big picture: what does this propaganda do?
This text is not about prosperity, but about:
- calling austerity “care,”
- presenting survival as success,
- turning poverty into a national virtue.
All while political responsibility:
- becomes blurred,
- is pushed outward,
- dissolves in emotional noise.