Reading down in the comments, I learned that the rioters were in fact rabid nationalists with a vague fascistic odor about them, and cheered on the lying Socialist government. Whatever it takes to win, and all.
Does this make me a bad person? That is, aside from the fact that I was so grossly un-informed to begin with.
Hungarian politics is a mess, but not that much of a mess. The rabid nationalist rioters weren't cheering on the lying government, they were hoping to topple it in a revolution. It was 'simply' nationalist protesters who cheered on the rabid ones.
Now what is a mess here using international political standards: it is the post-reformed-communist Socialists who head neoliberal reforms and align with Bush in foreign policy, while the right-wing opposition uses some altermondialist and anti-Bush rhetoric. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
(BTW, your Laughing Fourth diary helped a lot to understand things better, too.) Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
Youz could also read the English version of a longer exposé on the Hungarian Martians by a late professor of mine at the university. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Great catch. Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
