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Listen to your heart, watch your wallet, vote for Fidesz!

If Tisza were to come to power, they would implement their energy plan, cut us off from cheap Russian gas, and we would see triple utility prices and fuel costing 1,000 forints per liter.

But if it’s up to us, utility price cuts will remain, fuel will stay at protected prices, family support will continue, and everything else we have built over the past 16 years will be preserved. That’s why Fidesz is the only safe choice!

We’re out here in the countryside, in the fresh air. This is the smell of victory. What would you say to those who are still undecided about whether to go vote?

On the one hand, this is something we can only do once every four years—directly influence public affairs—so I think we should take advantage of it.

On the other hand, my message to everyone is to listen to your mind and your heart, and to pay attention to your wallet—and vote accordingly for Fidesz. Because if it’s up to us, low utility costs will remain, fuel will stay cheap, family support will continue, and the 13th and 14th month pensions will remain.

But if Tisza wants to give our money to Ukraine, then none of this will remain. So let’s not trust them—we’ve seen this before 2010, and we shouldn’t fall for it again.

Let’s vote for Fidesz, because that is the safe choice.

1️⃣ Repetition = “implanting” (core propaganda technique)

👉 Key phrases:
“1000 HUF fuel”, “triple utility costs”

👉 Technique:

  • the same numbers are repeated over and over
  • no evidence, no explanation
  • just repetition

👉 Goal:
➡️ to embed it in your mind as a “fact”

👉 Effect:
➡️ after a while:
“I don’t know where it came from, but it must be true”

📌 This is the classic:
illusory truth effect (repetition = perceived truth)

2️⃣ Simple, shocking numbers

👉 “1000 HUF fuel”
👉 “3x utilities”

👉 Technique:

  • concrete, easy-to-imagine numbers
  • deliberately extreme

👉 Goal:
➡️ immediate emotional reaction (shock)

👉 Effect:
➡️ you stop thinking → you decide emotionally

3️⃣ Financial fear appeal (strongest trigger)

👉 “pay attention to your wallet”

👉 Technique:

  • focuses on your personal finances
  • everyone feels affected

👉 Goal:
➡️ make politics personal

👉 Effect:
➡️ “this affects me → I feel fear → I react”

4️⃣ False causality (very important!)

👉 “if Tisza → no Russian gas → everything becomes expensive”

👉 Technique:

  • oversimplified chain
  • ignores all intermediate factors

👉 Reality:
➡️ energy prices = global markets + EU + contracts + many variables

👉 Effect:
➡️ simplifies the world into:
“them = expensive / us = cheap”

5️⃣ False dilemma

👉 “only Fidesz is the safe choice”

👉 Technique:

  • no alternatives
  • no nuance

👉 Goal:
➡️ narrow your thinking

👉 Effect:
➡️
“if not them → trouble”

6️⃣ Mixing emotion + rationality (trick)

👉 “listen to your heart” + “watch your wallet”

👉 Technique:

  • combines emotion with apparent logic

👉 Goal:
➡️ make it feel like a rational decision

👉 In reality:
➡️ it packages an emotional decision as rational

7️⃣ “We built everything” (appropriation)

👉 “what we have built over the past 16 years”

👉 Technique:

  • claims all positive outcomes as their own

👉 Effect:
➡️ “without them, there is nothing”

8️⃣ Enemy framing + distrust

👉 “don’t trust them”
👉 “they would give our money to Ukraine”

👉 Technique:

  • connects internal and external enemies

👉 Effect:
➡️ fear + anger + rejection

9️⃣ Nostalgia + fear combined

👉 “we’ve seen this before 2010”

👉 Technique:

  • negative image of the past
  • projected future threat

👉 Effect:
➡️
“let’s not go back there”

🧠 Answer to your key question:

👉 “Are the followers really that irrational that it has to be repeated this many times?”

No.

👉 Instead:

  • this is how the human brain works
  • repetition works on everyone, not just “others”

📌 This is not about stupidity, but about:

  • cognitive biases
  • attention economy
  • simple messages vs complex reality

⚠️ Why repeat it over and over?

  • Most people don’t follow politics daily
  • A message only “sticks” after multiple exposures
  • There is competition for attention (scroll → noise → short memory)
  • The simplest message wins

👉 That’s why:
they say the same thing 100 times, not once

🧩 The whole strategy in one line:

👉 Formula:

repetition + fear + money + simplification
→ “if you don’t vote for us → you’ll be worse off”

🔚 Bottom line

This is not about:
👉 “people being stupid”

It’s about:
👉 the most effective method of mass persuasion