Tisza supporters!
You can hope for a change of government, but you’d better start saving well in advance for higher energy prices!!
“Are you stupid, I can fake something like this anytime?”
That was the brilliant Tisza-style reaction to the fact that yesterday I presented an annual utility bill I received from a Hungarian pensioner living in Germany.
This pensioner pays 1.5 million forints per year for gas, water, and electricity in his studio apartment — nearly 1.4 million forints just for gas and electricity alone.
Here in Hungary, we pay around 250,000 forints per year on average for gas and electricity.
In Romania, it’s 600,000,
in Slovakia, 650,000,
in Poland, 900,000,
in Czechia, more than 1 million forints.
What costs 250,000 forints here at home costs 1.4 million forints for that Hungarian pensioner living in Germany.
So yes — you can prepare for a change of government, you can cheer for it — but then it’s worth starting to save right now for energy price hikes.
The German utility bills we showed are not fake, not forged.
Lying and making things up — that’s Tisza’s specialty.
🧠 What is actually happening in this text?
🔴 1️⃣ “Tiszások!” – creating a collective enemy
👉 Us vs. them framing
It does not attack a specific claim, but labels an entire group.
From the very first line, it designates an “enemy” onto whom anything can be projected from that point on.
🔴 2️⃣ Preloaded fear: “start saving for higher energy prices”
👉 Fear preloading
There is no evidence — instead, fear is pre-programmed:
- government change = guaranteed price hikes
- no “if,” no “maybe” — it is presented as a settled fact
This is not economic analysis, but a panic trigger.
🔴 3️⃣ A single story → universal truth
👉 Anecdotal absolutism
From a story that is:
- unnamed
- unverifiable
- a vague “I received a bill” type of anecdote
👉 they jump to national, even European-level conclusions.
This is textbook manipulation:
one case ≠ a system
🔴 4️⃣ Numbers used to shock, without context
👉 Numerical shock framing
A list is presented:
- Germany: 1.4 million
- Hungary: 250 thousand
- Romania, Slovakia, Poland…
❌ What is missing:
- apartment size
- actual consumption
- insulation quality
- price caps / subsidies
- income ratios
The numbers do not explain — they only intimidate.
🔴 5️⃣ Criticism = lying
👉 Delegitimization shortcut
The audience is not allowed to respond with:
- doubt
- questions
- verification
Because anyone who asks:
“lies,” “fakes,” “is a Tisza supporter”
This is criticism-proof communication.
🔴 6️⃣ Moral labeling
👉 Moral inversion
“The habit of lying is the Tisza Party’s own.”
It does not say:
- “this claim is incorrect”
Instead, it says:
- “this is what they are like”
This is character assassination, not debate.
🎯 What is the real message?
Not:
“let’s examine energy prices”
But this:
“If you want change, you will be punished.”
This is:
- blackmail
- intimidation
- voter conditioning
🧩 Why is this a typical Balásy-style product?
Because it combines, all at once:
- fear
- enemy construction
- shock through numbers
- moral stigmatization
- closure of debate
And none of it is evidence.