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What It All Boils Down To In The End

1/29/2020

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The other day, a Hungarian politician named Péter Niedermüller - the current mayor of Budapest District VII and former Member of European Parliament with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats from 2014 to 2019 - professed the following when asked about the current Hungarian government's initiatives to support families and stem demographic decline:  

“[…] if we look at what remains if you strip away these hated delineations that we have listed: non-Hungarians, others, migrants, Roma, I don’t know what, then there is this frightening formation left in the middle: white, Christian, heterosexual men – and there are of course (some) women among them. That’s the family concept. And this is terrible, because if we look at what comprises so-called white nationalists all over the world, well, that's it. And I tell you this quietly.”

Unfortunately, such declarations have become par for the course in most of the West. They are such a common and ubiquitous part of what constitutes 'discourse' in Western countries that they barely raise any eyebrows at all. The few eyebrows these sorts of statements do manage to raise in the West are swiftly attacked with the usual accusations of racism, right-wingery, white supremacism, and so forth. More often than not, the raised eyebrows submit to the accusations by meekly settling back onto their respective superciliary arches.

Contrary to the West, Niedermüller's statement raised a lot of eyebrows here in Hungary. Surprisingly, these raised eyebrows have essentially ostracized Niedermüller and have decided to organize an official protest against him. Many others have begun demanding his resignation.

If this little episode illustrates anything superficially, it is this - Hungary, and several other Central and Eastern European nations are not as far gone as the West - at least not yet.

​But what struck me most about Niedermüller's remark was the utter clarity of the message it contained. This seemingly flippant, offhand little statement contains everything you need to know about the true nature of the conflict being waged in the West. Niedermüller's utterance is, in essence, what it all boils down to in the end.

And what it all boils down to is spirit and souls. 

I imagine some will be unable to discern any spiritual implications from Niedermüller's words, but those grounded in Reality will certainly recognize the invisible demonic fingerprints marking each expressed thought.
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Bruce Charlton
1/29/2020 21:58:22

The gloves are off. Things have come to a point, there is no neutrality, all is a zero-sum game - the Left has made it either/or - the world is divided into two sides - interest groups - on every issue, and the two sides pitted against each other.

Yet, one side is expected to take their own side, while the other side are required to take the opposite side, against themselves: Hungarians are expected to favour non- and anti-Hungarians; men expected to favour women, normal sexuality expected to favour every non-normal type etc.

The only political choice is between self-hating communism, where the strong sucidally destroy themselves (and society), or a self-seeking majority - fascism.

The only way out of this hell-serving nonsense is to acknowledge that there is a Christian level above politics/ economics/ society, a level from-which these competing interests can be judged by higher standards; a level with higher objectives that can order and prioritise lower values.

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Francis Berger
1/30/2020 09:11:03

@ Bruce - Good points, all. What struck me most about NM's comment was its negative focus on family. Just yesterday, Niedermüller re-framed his words by claiming he was criticizing the government's policy because it favored one group above all others. In other words, he claims he was criticizing the exclusionary and racist qualities he sees in the family policies (typical leftist explanation).

But this is just dissembling, in my opinion. What really bothers NM are the spiritual aspects of family. I am going to try to write a post about that today.

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Bruce Charlton
1/30/2020 09:44:22

"Niedermüller re-framed his words by claiming he was criticizing the government's policy because it favored one group above all others."

Yes, of course it does; there is no neutrality, and all possible policies favour some and disfavour others - that is a fact.

The proper debate is who/ what do we want to favour, encourage - what values do we wish to support in our policies, laws, procedures?

What N. is proposing is that policies favour 'others' (such as Roma, immigrants - as is currently the case) and not Hungarians, favour non-families and not families (as is currently the case) etc.

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Francis Berger
1/30/2020 10:00:50

@ Bruce - People who defend the kind of thinking NM and his ilk promulgate seem to believe that it all has to with 'fairness' and 'inclusivity', but this is wrong.

The Left's 'love' of marginalized groups is nothing more than concealed hatred for other groups. However, in this particular case, it's not merely white, Christian families - the very concept of family is what people like NM hate.

The left love to portray family as an oppressive, patriarchal social construction that serves to stifle and strip individuals of their liberty, oppress women, exclude others, etc. But the left also understands that even at this purely material level of interpretation, family poses a problem because it possesses the power to insulate individuals against the System, to say nothing of the problems it poses for implementing totalitarian structures.

But the higher ranks of the left understand the metaphysical implications of family as well. And this is what they want to destroy above all else.

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bruce charlton
1/30/2020 10:20:11

You are right, they do hate family; and will go to great lengths to subjert it e.g. by including violence and murder by Non-family members such as step fathers in the data for family violence. The fact that step fathers murder at c 50-100 fold the rate of genetic fathers (in multiple studies, supported by common sense) is evidence in favour of the family - therefore the evidence is reversed by including 'mum's new boyfriend' in the same category as a husband and father, and 'proving' that the family is a dangerous place.

As always we ought to ask - 'compared with what'? No matter how many horror stories can be attached to the family, they pale into insignificance when compared with the horrible life of an average child without family, alone in the world, a ward of social workers dependent on the charity of the state - living in children's homes, a series of foster families or whatever: officially un-loved, just an economic unit.

Francis Berger
1/30/2020 11:09:43

@ Bruce - Yes, those are excellent points. I was unaware that family violence statistics were lumped together like that. Nevertheless, I was aware of the fact that non-family 'members' are more prone to cause disruption/violence. Unfortunately, I saw a great deal of this when I worked as a high school teacher, particularly when I worked in what the Left likes to refer as "underprivileged areas."

The last line in your comment is striking. When all is said and done, I feel this is exactly what the Left strives for - a 'society' of atomized, unloved individuals that see nothing in each other but an opportunity for hedonistic pleasure. Huxley's Brave New World springs to mind.

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