What on earth is this ignorant nonsense being spread about Hungary?

As usual, the comments below the original article are funny too. Especially when people send KLS (LadyinSatin)to hell:) Media brainwashing is ubiquitous.

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This is the essence here. Honest tails. "No one wants to go back to that. No one. To suggest that some contentious or poorly considered legislation is the death of democracy is simply ridiculous and an insult to the nation.” I don't understand the much idiotic dislike.

Whilst it is indeed counterproductive to speak of dictatorship and fascism in connexion with the Orbán regime, a statement that ‘one person who's earned the title of democrat it's [Viktor] Orbán’ is completely, utterly untrue, nay, ridiculous. Orbán is neither a dictator nor a democrat. His regime is neither tyranny nor democracy. If pressed, I should define the Orbán rule as a postmodern system without a coherent ideology or goal, centred on winning at all costs (even if winning harms them in the long run), fixated on crushing all opposition; a system whose essence is an utter lack of gentlemanly conduct. Yet strangely this system takes pains to remain within the loose borders of democracy. They have no use for the spirit of democracy, yet they do observe the letter in most cases. No, there is no prosecution against opposition journalists or politicians. No, there is no physical harassment, no staged trials (though one would be tempted to call the investigation into central bank information sharing with the IMF, most clearly aimed at discrediting András Simor, the first act of such a staged trial, but it has not proceeded further). Still, one is reluctant to call this ungentlemanly abuse of democracy a democracy proper. In a democracy that follows the ideal of that word, the ruling party do not force a new ‘constitution’ from the position of power without any semblance of consent or mutual agreement, nor do they put forward an amendment to this ‘constitution’ out of pure, unadulterated revenge; in such a democracy, it is not the prime minister who signs the appointment of university professors (hesitating for a spectacularly long time if the person in question is the son of his opponent); in such a democracy, people are not blackmailed into giving up their personal pensions with evidently unconstitutional discrimination; in a true democracy, the prime minister does not comment on court decisions, nor do they think that they are the sole fountain of truth and everything that collides with that ‘truth’ is ‘unrealistic’ (Orbán's comment on a constitutional court decision) or utterly ‘against the nation’. No, this is not a democracy either. This is a sad, depressing world without much hope, one in which reason and fairness are in exile, one ruled by the childish spite of people encapsulated in an alternative reality due to having been cut off from any opinion but their own for too long. A world whose logic is not the res publica but an unrelenting ‘us or them’. There is one point I must concede to the author: calling this weird purgatory a tyranny or a fascist regime is clearly a mistake that only benefits the Orbán regime. It is so easy for them to point out that speech is still free, elections are still free and formal opposition rights are granted. The Orbán regime is much more insidious than to violate these formal boundaries of democracy openly. Consequently, it is much harder to point out the evil of their regime than to cry tyranny.