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❗ The stakes of the election are enormous: either we defend our peace and security, or we allow warmongering and political instability to take over. Once we give in to destructive forces, it will be extremely difficult to undo—no matter which government comes afterward. Let’s not take the risk.

👉 I was a guest on the podcast The Other Side, where we discussed these decisive, fate-shaping questions among many other topics.
The full episode will be available today from 6:00 PM on The Other Side YouTube channel. Don’t miss it!

In my view, it is not a solution when someone, instead of doing their own job, resorts to the political act of pointing fingers at others. In politics as well, what you do not say and do not show will not be visible. If someone messes this up once, then any government may come afterward—it is not something that can really be undone.

1️⃣ “The stakes of the election are enormous” – Existential framing

“either we defend our peace and security, or…”

What is happening?
The election is not presented as a choice between political alternatives, but as a matter of existence itself.

🎯 Technique: Existential framing
👉 Anyone who is not “with us” is positioned as being against peace and security.

2️⃣ Vague threat: “warmongering,” “destructive forces”

“warmongering and political instability”
“destructive forces”

What is missing?

• no names
• no concrete decisions
• no events
• no evidence

🎯 Technique: Vague enemy construction
👉 A faceless enemy onto which anything can be projected.

3️⃣ The irreversibility narrative

“once we give in… it will be extremely difficult to undo”
“then any government may come afterward”

What is happening?
The self-correcting capacity of democracy is being denied.

🎯 Technique: Point-of-no-return framing
👉 If you don’t vote this way now, everything is lost forever.

This is strong fear-based mobilization.

4️⃣ “Let’s not take the risk!” – Command-style closure

This is not an argument, but an instruction.

🎯 Technique: Command framing
👉 Obedience replaces thinking.

5️⃣ Media legitimization: The Other Side podcast

“I was a guest on The Other Side podcast”

🎯 Technique: Authority & platform laundering
👉 The message is disguised as a “conversation,” not as a campaign message.

(The fact that it appears in a podcast does not make it any less propaganda.)

6️⃣ Projection: “pointing fingers at others”

“it is not a solution to point fingers at others”

What is the contradiction?
The entire text:

• points fingers at others
• constructs a nameless enemy
• shifts responsibility

🎯 Technique: Projection
👉 What the speaker is doing is precisely what they accuse others of.

7️⃣ “What you don’t show won’t be visible” – Pseudo-wisdom

This is an empty, cliché truism that:

• proves nothing
• yet sounds like “common sense”

🎯 Technique: Common sense fallacy
👉 The lack of substance is replaced with the appearance of wisdom.

8️⃣ Overall picture – in short

This text:

• generates fear
• manufactures a vague enemy
• turns the election into a fatal, irreversible moment
• denies democratic feedback and correction
• applies moral pressure

It does not debate.
It directs.

Key sentence that sums it all up

“If someone messes this up once, it can hardly be undone.”

This is not analysis.
This is psychological coercion.

🚨 Don’t they see what’s happening?!
European leaders are marching decisively toward war. Toward a war that we “haven’t seen since the time of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers.” But who actually wants this?
🟠 Hungary certainly does not — as long as we are in government, there will be peace here.

— My God, what is happening here? Where are we going, what are we doing? This is the feeling I constantly have when I watch European decision-makers, the statements of the NATO Secretary General, and serious European leaders — that honestly, people, is it really the case that only we are sensing this?

— And don’t you see where you are heading? Step by step, you are moving toward war.

— I actually think that European citizens feel this as well, but in this great democratic Europe they are given relatively little voice. What I see again is Europe wanting to take yet another step toward practically dragging itself into a war — and here I would quote Rutte — a war that we have not seen since the time of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers.

So how is it possible that someone, acting responsibly, can make such a statement — that such a war is coming? I simply cannot get away from this sentence, or these expressions, because I believe that sadly, in the family of every Hungarian there is a grandfather or great-grandfather who truly saw such a war, or who never came back — and therefore the family never saw him again.

These are not sentences that can be spoken as if we were talking about the weather. It is absolutely unbelievable.

1️⃣ Creating moral panic (“we are marching toward war”)

Key phrases:

• “they are marching decisively toward war”
• “toward a war we haven’t seen since our grandfathers and great-grandfathers”

What’s happening?

The text paints a picture of inevitable catastrophe.
It is not about concrete decisions, but about an emotion-driven apocalyptic narrative.

🎯 Technique: Moral panic framing
👉 Fear activation comes before thinking.

2️⃣ Vague scapegoating (“European leaders”)

What’s missing?

• no names,
• no decisions,
• no dates,
• no documents.

“European leaders” become a homogeneous, faceless mass.

🎯 Technique: Vague enemy construction
👉 This makes debate impossible — only fear remains.

3️⃣ “Only we see it” – the chosen-ones narrative

Key phrases:

• “is it really only us who sense this?”
• “don’t you see it?”

What’s happening?

The speaker places themselves in a position of moral and intellectual superiority.
Anyone who disagrees is framed as:

• blind,
• manipulated,
• ignorant.

🎯 Technique: Epistemic superiority framing
👉 This is not an argument, but a status claim.

4️⃣ Victim role: “citizens have no voice”

Claim:

• “in this great democratic Europe, citizens are given relatively little voice”

Problem:

• no data,
• no comparison,
• no benchmark.

🎯 Technique: Victimization without evidence
👉 “Democracy” functions as a prop, not an analysis.

5️⃣ Isolated authority: Mark Rutte

What’s happening?

A single sentence (or a paraphrase) is highlighted.

Missing:

• context,
• exact quotation,
• explanation.

🎯 Technique: Fear amplification via authority
👉 Authority is used to frighten, not to inform.

6️⃣ Instrumentalization of historical trauma

Key elements:

• grandfather,
• great-grandfather,
• “who never came back.”

What’s happening?

Personal family tragedies are turned into political arguments.
The pain of the past functions as emotional coercion.

🎯 Technique: Emotional blackmail via collective memory
👉 Anyone who disagrees is framed as “insensitive.”

7️⃣ False absolute: “as long as we are in government, there will be peace”

What’s wrong?

A global conflict is reduced to a single domestic political actor.
As if one country alone could guarantee world peace.

🎯 Technique: False security promise
👉 Total oversimplification.

8️⃣ Delegitimizing rational discourse

Key phrase:

• “you can’t talk about this as if we were discussing the weather”

What’s happening?

Calm, policy-based discussion is framed as immoral.
Emotion becomes the only “legitimate” language.

🎯 Technique: Anti-rational framing
👉 Fear becomes the measure of truth.

🔚 Conclusion — what is this really?

This is not a war analysis, but:

• a fear-based narrative,
• a vague enemy image,
• political use of historical trauma,
• a moral “us vs. them” framework.

🎯 Goal:
Not understanding, but emotional mobilization.

If you want, I can also:

• tighten this into a short international op-ed,
• rewrite it for an academic or NGO context, or
• adapt it for social media or a slide presentation.

No words. Sorry from Hungary, from those of us who are not hateful.

🗯️ What is being prepared in Brussels is outrageous!
Ukraine would submit an 800 billion dollar bill—that is 260 trillion forints—to Europe for the next 10 years, and they would make our taxpayers pay this incomprehensible amount!

Ukraine is asking for so much money over the next decade that it would be enough to pay Hungarian pensions for 40 years, or all family benefits for 60 years. That is what the 800 billion dollars mean, which the Ukrainian prime minister wants to collect from Brussels.

❗ Brussels would burden Hungarians by abolishing the 13th and 14th month pensions, cutting family benefits, and introducing a progressive income tax—just to pay Ukraine’s bills.
This is our money. They would take it from Hungarian families and Hungarian pensioners!

We Hungarians will not pay the price of someone else’s war!
Hungarians’ money must remain with Hungarians!

👉 While the national government stands for peace and Hungarian interests, Brussels—and its domestic ally, the Tisza Party led by Péter Magyar—supports this debt-creating, pro-war path.
They would give away Hungarians’ money; we will protect it!

The government will soon make the report public, because Hungarian families have the right to know what plan Brussels wants to force upon them.

🟠 In April, we can choose between the Brussels path and the path of peace.

• In mathematics there are irrational numbers, and there are irrational ones in politics as well. Let me show you one.

If you can’t read it, it’s not your fault — this is 260 trillion forints.
This is the amount the Ukrainians are demanding from Europe to keep Ukraine running.

With this sum, every Hungarian could be given 27 million forints.
Or we could pay pensions for 40 years, and all family benefits for 60 years.

And this is not the end.
This does not include military and war-related expenses.

In war, we don’t only lose human lives — Brussels would burn all our money as well.

If it were up to Brussels’ puppets, Hungarian money would be included in this amount too.
But as long as there is a national government in Hungary, Hungarians’ money will not go to Ukraine.

Our main task is to ensure that the morally bankrupt left-wing Brussels elite, retreating forward, does not drag our nation’s capital into this liberal experiment as well. And this organizing effort is indeed underway. We don’t have to look far for examples—just look around Budapest. When a city is governed according to the logic of the left-wing Brussels elite, what we see is not development, but bankruptcy. Not order, but chaos. Not a proud capital, but run-down public spaces, a worsening homelessness crisis, untreated drug problems, and a city that can no longer look at itself with a smile, not even during the holidays. It is enough to look at Budapest dressed in Christmas decorations now, under our current city leadership.

Today in the Western world, two different visions of cities stand side by side, and next April we will also have to choose between these two futures. According to one vision, a city is not a home, not a community, but an experimental ground—an ideological testing site where order is relativized, tradition is treated with suspicion, and city leadership seeks to meet external expectations rather than serve its own citizens. In these cities, order and security disappear first, then pride disappears, and finally freedom disappears. In the end, the city itself disappears as well—at least in spirit.

This is what we see today in most Western European major cities: illegal migration, violence, chaos, the abandonment of public safety, and ideological governance instead of real development.

And then there are cities that do not want to move toward their own dismantling—where security is a value, organization is a virtue, order is not a dirty word, and the city serves those who live there, not the other way around.

Our main task is to ensure that the morally bankrupt left-wing Brussels elite, retreating forward, does not drag our nation’s capital into this liberal experiment.

1️⃣ Pre-designated culprit (“the morally bankrupt left-wing Brussels elite”)

What is happening?

A homogeneous, demonized group is being identified.

There are no names, no concrete decisions, no data → therefore no claim that can be debated, only a moral judgment.

Technique: Moral condemnation framing
👉 Anyone who thinks differently is not “mistaken,” but morally corrupt.

2️⃣ “Just look around Budapest” – evidence without proof

What is happening?

The text creates the appearance of empirical evidence, yet specifies nothing.

There is no timeframe, no comparison, no benchmark.

Technique: Self-evident claim
👉 “If you don’t agree, you must be blind.”

3️⃣ Binary worldview: order vs. chaos

Pairings:

• order ↔ chaos
• development ↔ bankruptcy
• pride ↔ decay
• freedom ↔ disappearance

What is missing?

• nuance
• institutional causes
• budget constraints, competencies, timelines

Technique: False dichotomy
👉 Only two paths exist; any middle position is framed as moral betrayal.

4️⃣ “The West” as a warning future

What is happening?

Western Europe = migration + violence + chaos
Budapest = “still salvageable”

Key tricks:

• No cities are named
• No statistics are provided
• No cause-and-effect analysis is offered

Technique: Fear projection / civilizational panic
👉 Fear replaces argumentation.

5️⃣ Apocalyptic slope (“order disappears → the city disappears”)

This is one of the strongest elements of the text.

What is happening?

A narrative of an unstoppable process is constructed.

If you don’t act now, everything will be lost.

Technique: Slippery slope
👉 Forces immediate political loyalty.

6️⃣ Christmas decorations – emotional manipulation

Christmas is not an urban policy indicator, but rather:

• a shared community memory
• emotional identification
• nostalgia

Technique: Emotional anchoring
👉 The critique is framed not as rational evaluation, but as emotional disappointment.

Overall picture

This text:

❌ does not analyze
❌ does not compare
❌ does not offer solutions

Instead, it:

✅ defines identity (“us” vs. “them”)
✅ generates fear
✅ implies moral superiority
✅ is optimized for electoral mobilization

📌 Core point:
This is not about the condition of Budapest.
It is about belonging — and about defining who you are supposed to fear.

On the very first day of snowfall, the mayor published a victory-style statement claiming that “everything is fine.”
In reality, at several busy locations in Budapest, we saw that it was practically impossible to get around or push through the snow.
👉 That’s why several fellow representatives and I picked up snow shovels ourselves and cleared one of the stops together — even though clearing it would normally be the responsibility of the city’s leadership.
It’s time for him to get to work too.

1️⃣ “Victory report” – strawman construction

“The mayor posted a victory report saying that ‘everything is fine.’”

👉 What is happening?

• “Victory report” is an emotionally charged label, not a quote.
• “Everything is fine” is presented as an absolute statement, whereas in reality it typically refers to an operational status update.

🎯 Technique: Strawman
→ attacking a simplified, exaggerated claim instead of the actual content.

2️⃣ Individual experience → generalized crisis

“In several busy locations in Budapest, it was impossible to get around.”

👉 What’s the problem?

It is not specified:

• how many locations,
• when,
• at what time,
• what the national or regional situation was.

Anecdotal evidence → citywide judgment.

🎯 Technique: Hasty generalization
→ turning partial experience into a total narrative.

3️⃣ Snow shovel = moral superiority (performative action)

“We also grabbed snow shovels.”

👉 This is not crisis management, but political performance:

• camera-friendly,
• visually striking,
• emotionally easy to consume.

🎯 Technique: Virtue signaling
→ “we are working, they are not.”

4️⃣ Blurring of responsibilities – half-truth

“Snow removal is everywhere the responsibility of the capital.”

👉 This is professionally inaccurate.
In reality:

• multiple authorities are involved (city, district, BKK, road operators),
• stops, sidewalks, and platforms fall under shared responsibilities.

🎯 Technique: Oversimplification
→ reducing a complex system for political attack.

5️⃣ Pre-packaged “fair play” – defensive rhetoric

“No one expects everything to be perfect…”

👉 This functions as a rhetorical shield:

• first performs the role of the “reasonable critic,”
• then continues attacking with the same intensity.

🎯 Technique: Inoculation
→ preempting criticism (“I’m not being unfair”).

6️⃣ Distortion of a Karácsony quote

“We don’t expect him to catch snowflakes out of the air.”

👉 This is:

• mockery,
• emotional distortion,
• making the opponent look ridiculous.

🎯 Technique: Ridicule framing
→ stripping the other side of seriousness.

7️⃣ The final message (implicitly)

Although it is said that:

“It was a difficult situation,”

the real conclusion is still this:

• the mayor is incompetent,
• the mismanagement is personal responsibility,
• the opposition-led city administration does not work.

🎭 Overall picture: why this is propaganda

✔ appears calm and reasonable
✔ adopts the “ordinary citizen” role
✔ strong visual performance
✔ emotional identification
✔ legal and professional details are blurred

This is not an analysis of urban operations, but campaign communication — covered in snow.

Check what she’s wearing…..