If you had any idea what you’re talking about, you’d know that migrations are only part the picture, the rest being massive increases in mortality due to unemployment, drug abuse, violent death, suicide and lack of access to healthcare, and decreases in birthrates due to economic instability and lack of social support and destruction of the welfare state. The migrations happened precisely because of the economic and welfare destruction in the Eastern Block due to the arrival of capitalism, not due to some sort of “emigration deficit”. You’re just proving to us all that you haven’t done even the most cursory reading of the post-Soviet situation in the eastern block.
I’m happy to overcome my shortcomings and ignorance and learn from someone more knowledgeable.
Do I understand correctly you put in this graph to predict a similar thing will happen? What are your other predictions? How is this relevant to this topic and why is important?
I’m not putting forward predictions with this graph, the graph just proves that “removing politicians to put in experts” is a slogan used by the right wing, the ones with the luxury of pretending that economics aren’t ideological.
My prediction is simply that electing a right wing party won’t solve corruption (one of the biggest perceived issues in Hungary after 16 years of continuous Orban rule), to degradation of working rights and welfare state, and will simply result in pursuing EU-dictated neoliberal policy in an era in which the EU has been stagnating for 20 years .
My alternative is not Orban either, I’m a firm leftist. I just with Eastern Europe hadn’t been dominated by anticommunism for the past 35 years and actually had a chance to grow some progressive movements, which is hard to do when you reject all the progress and advances put forward by former socialism.
Just to put it in perspective how bad the situation was in Hungary from up close, most opposition parties (leftist or not) had literally zero chance replacing the Orban regime in the past 16 years.
They destroyed their opponents with a brutal propaganda machine and twisted voting system (winner compensation). I saw it first hand, I lived there a few years and the brainwashing is not just a buzzword, most boomers love Orban more than their own families. I wanted to buy a house and live there, but we left after a couple years after we saw what the state media did to people.
This was probably the last chance to get rid of them and it was an incredible feat to pull off.
Magyar might not be the most ideal candidate, but if your house is on fire you cant pick and choose the firefighters.
If you had any idea what you’re talking about, you’d know that migrations are only part the picture, the rest being massive increases in mortality due to unemployment, drug abuse, violent death, suicide and lack of access to healthcare, and decreases in birthrates due to economic instability and lack of social support and destruction of the welfare state. The migrations happened precisely because of the economic and welfare destruction in the Eastern Block due to the arrival of capitalism, not due to some sort of “emigration deficit”. You’re just proving to us all that you haven’t done even the most cursory reading of the post-Soviet situation in the eastern block.
I’m happy to overcome my shortcomings and ignorance and learn from someone more knowledgeable. Do I understand correctly you put in this graph to predict a similar thing will happen? What are your other predictions? How is this relevant to this topic and why is important?
I’m not putting forward predictions with this graph, the graph just proves that “removing politicians to put in experts” is a slogan used by the right wing, the ones with the luxury of pretending that economics aren’t ideological.
My prediction is simply that electing a right wing party won’t solve corruption (one of the biggest perceived issues in Hungary after 16 years of continuous Orban rule), to degradation of working rights and welfare state, and will simply result in pursuing EU-dictated neoliberal policy in an era in which the EU has been stagnating for 20 years .
My alternative is not Orban either, I’m a firm leftist. I just with Eastern Europe hadn’t been dominated by anticommunism for the past 35 years and actually had a chance to grow some progressive movements, which is hard to do when you reject all the progress and advances put forward by former socialism.
I can get behind your view, I feel the same.
Just to put it in perspective how bad the situation was in Hungary from up close, most opposition parties (leftist or not) had literally zero chance replacing the Orban regime in the past 16 years.
They destroyed their opponents with a brutal propaganda machine and twisted voting system (winner compensation). I saw it first hand, I lived there a few years and the brainwashing is not just a buzzword, most boomers love Orban more than their own families. I wanted to buy a house and live there, but we left after a couple years after we saw what the state media did to people.
This was probably the last chance to get rid of them and it was an incredible feat to pull off. Magyar might not be the most ideal candidate, but if your house is on fire you cant pick and choose the firefighters.