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2010-04-11 Europe

Hungary elections: first step to power for far-Right since Nazi era

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Posted by tipper 2010-04-11 16:36|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 If I were the Jewish community Id be a bit more worried about the Left - they have become seriously anti-Jew while sucking up to Muslims in Europe.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-04-11 16:42|| 2010-04-11 16:42|| Front Page Top

#2 So Geert Wilders pro Gay, Pro Jewish, pro capitalist party is lumped in with Hungarian National socialists?

I wonder why the MSM is dying?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-04-11 17:21|| 2010-04-11 17:21|| Front Page Top

#3 "Fidesz, Hungary's centre-right party, is expected to sweep out the unpopular Socialist government and Jobbik, a far-right party is predicted to take second place after Sunday's elections."

Poor punctuation and generally bad writing isn't helping either. My brain hurts.

Posted by Bulldog 2010-04-11 17:26|| 2010-04-11 17:26|| Front Page Top

#4 I expalin politics in a democracy as follows.

There are 2 constituencies, those the government bribes to get their vote and those the government taxes to pay for the bribes. As goverments run out of money, as they are currently, they have to both decrease the bribes and increase the taxes to pay for the bribes. The result is a polarization of politics and the rise of so called far right parties and far left parties. Although, far left parties are never described as such by the MSM.

Posted by phil_B 2010-04-11 17:43|| 2010-04-11 17:43|| Front Page Top

#5 You forgot that the government can borrow to bribe.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-04-11 18:07|| 2010-04-11 18:07|| Front Page Top

#6 If I were the Jewish community Id be a bit more worried about the Left - they have become seriously anti-Jew while sucking up to Muslims in Europe.

OldSpook, in Europe both the far right and the center to far left have traditions of Jew bashing, if not worse... and the Hungarians have revived this tradition with enthusiasm, as far as I can tell. This compares to Geert Wilder's party, which is strongly pro-Israel, while on other issues it ranges from center left to center right. It's just that the journalism profession regards anyone against any of their favourite causes to be by definition hard-right or far right or fascist, and they are completely uninterested in the nuances of reality.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-11 20:06|| 2010-04-11 20:06|| Front Page Top

#7 "journalism [is] completely uninterested in ~~the nuances of~~ reality"

FTFY,tw.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-04-11 22:17|| 2010-04-11 22:17|| Front Page Top

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