There’s a combination of poverty, shame, and (misogynistic) cultural narratives that makes Hungarian men very susceptible to manosphere-adjacent toxic masculinity. They actually have their own Hungarian-language mini-manosphere, mostly on TikTok. They need a real economic change before anything else can happen, because (just like with the US) conservatism is great at finding external groups for people to foist blame for their problems on. When you remove those problems, (i.e. increasing education, increasing wealth, increasing access to healthcare, etc) people become less conservative.
I’ve heard the next guy isn’t much better … but still, great news. Even a little bit better is still better.
this but always remembering the path to better starts here if Hungarians want to embrace it.
and to be fair, Orban was elected on the same promises and here we are. Defeating Orban may turn out to be the easy bit, deOrbaning Hungary seems an impossibke task.
He’s a “center-right” nationalist, instead of a far-right authoritarian Identitarian, at least.
What? No, don’t you pay attention to how politics works for people.on Lemmy? If they didn’t trade the bad leadership for a perfect Progressive extremist, they may as well have not bothered because anything less is 100% identical or worse than the shitty old leadership.
Term limits… they exist for a reason people…
Which the new guy wants to bring in. Let’s see how much he follows through with.
Oh that’s good news.
Now, if we could just get those for Congress …
Age limits wouldn’t hurt either. Like, 20 might be too young, but 80 is not much better.
Just tie it to private-sector retirement age and call it good.
They do have a tendency of disappearing when you need them the most, but yes, it doesn’t hurt to at least try.
Trump lost again
