„There are few signs of such a resolve here. Heaven knows, the last 20 years have been tortuous, with economic crises, corruption, even a brief upsurge of mafia war in the 1990s. But perhaps the biggest disappointment is the almost total lack of interest Hungarians have shown in their newly found freedoms and democratic institutions.
Among the depressing findings of a recent survey of university and college students is that a mere 40 percent agree that democracy is the best system of government, while nearly one-third think that in some situations a dictatorship would work better. (To be fair, this is perhaps not an especially well-formulated question: some situations could mean anything.)