/lit/ - Literature

>>19706865
As I mentioned, inflation is skyrocketing due to massive stimulus debt and that our government got itself. Most of the economy is now devoted to siphoning money into the pocket's of our supreme leader Orbán and his cronies. We're aligning ourselves with the Russians and the Chinese, but we are still a member of the EU and NATO leaving us in a weird position where nobody really likes us.
The whole authoritarianism thing is now well known within the European union, and politicians in developed wealthy democracies like Denmark and the Netherlands are able to use "getting our tax money back from Orbán" as a political promise, the timing of which is especially bad considering that the slow bureaucratic mechanisms of the EU have finally started a legally binding investigation into whether or not Hungary abides by the funding code of ethics of the EU, which it obviously doesn't. If the investigation concludes that we aren't following the rules, then the best case scenario is that our floundering economy loses the handouts, the worst case scenario is us getting kicked out of the Union all together.
Angela Merkel was a big ally of Orbán, because he provided cheap Hungarian labor for assembling German cars in exchange for the Germans turning a blind eye to what was going on long term. With her gone, and a comparatively left wing government coming into power, our regime loses that structural support.
We're going to have elections this spring, and the entire opposition (including but not limited to socialists, nationalists, non-fidesz conservatives and the zoomers) is working together as a united front against Fidesz, but I don't really expect anything to happen. The days are ticking down but they aren't doing any campaigning, meanwhile the Fidesz propaganda is in overdrive.
Everyone I know is daydreaming about or actively working on moving west. I appreciate you being interested in our language, and very rich poetry awaits you if you learn it (I myself am a big fan of Arany János) but the country itself is a run of the mill post-soviet shithole ruined by the greed of men and the complacent fools who let them do it.