Recently an irritating statement from a liberal friend hit my ear: “Claiming orbán being a dictator is far too exaggerated and simply wrong!” (I declare that the friend is not a wolf in sheepskin as I do not have any orange scented friends. Natural selection, I guess.)

As an answer I applied some ‘Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus’.

“If you put a pot of cold water with a frog in it onto a hob and you turn on the heat, you will observe that the frog doesn’t notice the increase of the heat. Consequently the frog will be dead in the moment it realises the lethal temperature.

Pretending the frog being the democracy and the pot of water being Hungary. The heat is the definition of accumulated single dictatorship characteristics. Implemented and increased by orbán.

Such as:

- absence of contested elections

- ultimate power, concentrated in one person

- party control of mass media

- party control of executive authority

- party control of legislative authority

- party control of educational systems

- establishment of fundamental laws in a way that there won’t be any chance for

     an opposition government to change them in the future

- establishment of oligarchy

- castration of the constitutional court

- party and leader loyal people in all powerful state positions

- severe abuse of tax money

- publicly held revanchist speeches by key government people

- official government agitation against Jews, Roma, Sinti, Homosexuals,

     Immigrants

- claiming the failure of Liberal Democracy

- opening public discussions on death penalty

- admiration of dictatorial countries, their leaders and their systems

- open and official admiration of some leaders from nazi hungary

- lifting WWII criminals’ books into the national curriculum

Am discontinuing the list for a moment.

On a scale from 1-10: how dead is the frog?”

28. May 2015