Victor Orban is the Prime Minister of Hungary and a staunch Hungarian nationalist. He is trying his best to push his country back in a direction that aligns with Family, God and Country. And because of this he is despised by his EU neighbors. The openly gay EU leaders have been triggered by his recent passing of a law that forbids proselytizing the LGBTQ lifestyles to minors. But he is indifferent to their hysteria. The fact that Hungary elected this man four times speaks volumes about their superiority to our own with respect to survival instinct
Recently he was interviewed by a religious publication from Croatia. Here are some excepts. Note: This is a machine translation from a Croat publication and therefore not particularly polished.
How much does it cost you to swim against the dominant European political current?
Whoever swims with the multicultural fashion of this time loses everything that matters in life. True, everyone who goes against the current causes themselves a lot of problems. We pay a high price. Hungary pays a high price for not signing the Istanbul Convention, then refusing to support any Cold War policy; we pay a high price for not kicking the Russian president every day together with Westerners, but giving him the respect he deserves as president; we pay a high price for protecting the Christian model of the family; that LGBT madness has no place here; then we pay a high price for our position on migration and we pay a high price for not accepting the Brussels bureaucracy, but first and foremost as a counterweight to building Central European cooperation. So, we really pay a high price. But if we don’t pay that price, and if we don’t represent our interests, we may live more comfortably, but we will end up losing a lot more. We do better if we fight. I think Zrinski would understand that too.
How strong are the influences of pre-democratic structures in Hungary today?
In the Hungarian soul there is generally a desire for what is more important than personal life, which transcends it. Hungarians usually look for it in three directions: in the direction of family, nation and God. Usually, conversion also occurs when these three worlds are connected. It is a process that is progressing and I would not say that we are hindered by pre-democratic structures, no one else is responsible, it is our responsibility. Clearly, there are atheists in Hungary as well, there are opponents of the Church, there are liberals who do everything to stop the spread of Christian values. They have their own media, they are organized, they have strong civic associations. However, we have them on the conservative side as well – there are at least as many Christian media as there are anti-Christian ones, our civil associations are at least as strong as theirs, maybe even stronger; and we hold political positions because we have a Christian government. Therefore, the lack of spiritual renewal cannot be attributed to our opponents. The fault is not in others, but in ourselves.
You mention the soul of Europe, the spiritual struggle. Is the current political struggle actually the materialization of a spiritual struggle waged in the background?
Politics takes place on three levels simultaneously. The first level is practical: it deals with issues related to power, the acceptance of the budget, the appointment of persons, the maintenance of order. I would call the second level a vision, because all national communities must have a vision. What will happen to the Hungarians, not tomorrow morning, but in five, 10, 20 years? However, behind everything there is another broader dimension, the world of transcendence. We live in that dimension as well, and it is a part of life. In Hungarian political thought, this is called the problem of majority and truth. It could be said like this: if someone has a majority, but does not strive for the truth with that majority, what will the majority do for him? It’s just profanation. If, on the other hand, one advocates the truth but cannot move the majority, how will he act in the interest of that truth? It is a key challenge of Christian politics that emerges in democratic conditions. To simplify, we no longer have sacral kings anointed by God, so we must exist in a democracy, connecting the majority and the truth. It is not easy, but it is possible. Demo-Christian politics also has its mandate in relation to Christian culture. Christianity, first of all, created a free man. Therefore, we must first and foremost protect human dignity. Then, Christianity created a Christian family. We must protect the concept of the Christian family. Furthermore, Christianity has created nations in this part of the world. If we, the Hungarians, had not followed Christianity for a thousand years, we would have disappeared, so we must also protect the nation. But we must also protect religious communities and the Church. To summarize, our task is not to protect theological principles, it is the mission of the Church, but the great Christian achievements of civilization. And when I protect them, I fight not only with the sword, I use not only power, but also arguments.
For a brief moment I thought you’d landed an interview with Viktor Orban.
Can you imagine? I’d get one of those calls that Tucker Carlson got saying the CIA, NSA and FBI had opened up a file. In other words, the “Show.” No I just read this thing and it struck me the Hungarians haven’t be overwhelmed by the Left yet. I’ve included Eastern Europe as one of my escape plans. Hungary, Poland and maybe one or two other countries there seem to have maintained a semblance of sanity in the face of withering attacks from the West. Reading that openly gay prime minister from one of the Benelux countries whining about the… Read more »
Yes, my sister-in-law has just enough Hungarian blood in her that she can apply for citizenship if necessary. I think my younger brother is keeping that as part of his contingency planning in case things REALLY go sideways. I wouldn’t mind chilling out in Budapest.
Orban is a good man and a good leader. He cares about his nation and his people, and he’s not afraid to ruffle the right feathers to protect them.
That’s great. I wish I had a similar backup. Camera Girl has a link that could get us back to Italy but that’s not saying very much. They’re still pretty screwed up for a large country. But it would feel like the neighborhood I grew up in but more so.
Yes Orban is good. We could use leaders like that. Maybe some will show themselves.
I figure getting into Europe as an American is like getting into the United States as a Central American: once you’re here, you’re here. Get to Italy, then shuffle on over to Eastern Europe on that EU passport and live the sweet life. Since you live in New England, you’re already accustomed to the frosty winters.
It’s a confusing situation. Leaving America would be a bitter defeat. I’d prefer to go somewhere like Idaho where they still have some freedom. But who knows? If America becomes a slave state then I’ll have to look for a better place. Maybe Hungary is such a place. There’s a lot to think about.
Yes. I don’t want to abandon my home, either. I definitely don’t want to be some other nation’s “refugee” or immigrant. But if we’re run out of our own country—like the Visigoths pushed by the Huns into the Roman Empire—then what choice do we have?
Of course, we could try to STOP the replacement, but that doesn’t seem to be going so well. : /
And that’s the quintillion dollar question. Will someone with more power than us ants put together an organization to harness all that ant power. After all an army of ants can strip an elephant if it’s run as an army.