RE HUNGARY: EU PREZ FOR 6 MONTHS ON
I'm sure there are many, many things at work, etc. But there are two that strike me this morning, the 2nd day of Hungary's occupying the rotating EU presidency. 1 Opening the half-year presidency with a Roman Catholic mass appears to be an anachronistic, neo-medieval symbol. Inaugurating, sort of, the EU as a 21st-century Holy Roman Empire--by the PM of a country that was excluded from the Holy Roman Empire. Nice, in a hysterical sort of way. That is all perfectly meaningless--except it works to annoy . . . a those who are not religious, b those who are not Christian, c those who are not Catholic, and d those who are not Roman Catholic. Orbán (henceforth: VO) thrives on annoying people. So, it works, period. This is the typical thing the overachieving graduates of neofascist--Franco-ist? Salazar-ist? Mussolini-ist? Perón-ist? take your pick--political cells that flourish around the RC high schools, people who surround VO would be able to think of . . . for . . .
