Hurray I voted! (so fucking what)
There was a referendum here in Hungary yesterday - a two parter. One question was regarding the privatisation of Hungary's hospitals, and the other was about whether we wanted to grant citizenship rights automatically to Hungarians living outside Hungary's borders. Now, leaving aside the question of which side I personally supported, (suffice it to say that if you think that trying to redraw the map to reflect some pre-trianon fantasyland isn't going to piss your neighbours off you're a fucking moron, and if you think that the private sector gives a flaming rat's ass whether you live or die in their hospitals then you're an even bigger fucking moron), let's just take a quick peek at what stance the political parties took.
The NATO-embracing, foreign investment fellating, proud "coalition of the willing" member (falling right between the military might of the Honduras and Iceland in the big alphabetical list, in case you're curious) governing party that, in a fit of irony, Hungarians have named the "Socialist" party is all for privatising the hospitals and keeping the borders and citizenship rules as is, thank you very much.
The clinically insane, increasingly extreme right wing opposition party "FIDESZ" wants the hospitals to stay public and wants to open the borders to ethnic Hungarians living abroad.
Let me get this straight. The Socialists want to dump public health care and the right wing bozos want to open our borders up. Don't tell me Hungarians don't have a sense of humour.
Anyways, the upshot of it all is that, as with most things political and Hungarian, the whole thing is irrelevant. A waste of time. Null and void. The small-minded knuckle-draggers in FIDESZ couldn't get the minimum number of idiots off their asses to vote, so even though both their initiatives won (public hospitals and Nationalism ahoy!), the overall turnout was so poor that it was declared invalid. And though I'm sad to see the, *ahem*, Socialists see this as a mandate to go on ahead and sell my local hospital to Pfizer, (after all, who better to treat me cost-effectively and know exactly what brand to prescribe for whatever might ail me), I am heartened to see the FIDESZ bozos get some much-deserved egg on their faces. Fear not though. I'm sure they'll find some way to blame the Jews.
The NATO-embracing, foreign investment fellating, proud "coalition of the willing" member (falling right between the military might of the Honduras and Iceland in the big alphabetical list, in case you're curious) governing party that, in a fit of irony, Hungarians have named the "Socialist" party is all for privatising the hospitals and keeping the borders and citizenship rules as is, thank you very much.
The clinically insane, increasingly extreme right wing opposition party "FIDESZ" wants the hospitals to stay public and wants to open the borders to ethnic Hungarians living abroad.
Let me get this straight. The Socialists want to dump public health care and the right wing bozos want to open our borders up. Don't tell me Hungarians don't have a sense of humour.
Anyways, the upshot of it all is that, as with most things political and Hungarian, the whole thing is irrelevant. A waste of time. Null and void. The small-minded knuckle-draggers in FIDESZ couldn't get the minimum number of idiots off their asses to vote, so even though both their initiatives won (public hospitals and Nationalism ahoy!), the overall turnout was so poor that it was declared invalid. And though I'm sad to see the, *ahem*, Socialists see this as a mandate to go on ahead and sell my local hospital to Pfizer, (after all, who better to treat me cost-effectively and know exactly what brand to prescribe for whatever might ail me), I am heartened to see the FIDESZ bozos get some much-deserved egg on their faces. Fear not though. I'm sure they'll find some way to blame the Jews.
posted by Foog at 1:30 a.m.
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