For decades, Europeans have been able to enjoy glorious autumns without fearing Panzers rumbling along Avenue des Champs-Elysées, Soviet conquerors messing with their art festivals, or overfed, oversexed Americans pawing their women and corrupting their morals with Hershey bars.
Instead, they have been able to focus on what really matters: fútbol, vacation times, and fear that global warming will transform Earth into a waterworld a decade from next Tuesday, give or take. Muslim assimilation problems? Can’t talk about that; few in positions of authority listen, anyway.
Except for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who’s giving every Brussels-crat heartburn from one end of the food counter to the other. Thus, an unelected and mostly unaccountable EU commissioner can’t examine concombre a la menthe, linger by cassoulet, and finish with profiteroles, without being interrupted by pesky thoughts from that meddling Magyar.
It’s enough to give privileged rulers indigestion, which is another challenge that requires careful study.
“To my understanding of democracy, it isn’t possible for the government not to honor the will of the people. We are talking about national sovereignty and the cultural identity of the country. We must preserve the right to decide who can live in Hungary,” he said.
Further, many Muslim refugees strike him less as victims seeking security and more like invaders that will conquer eventually by population increases and political demands—all of which will lead to the demise and destruction of European civilization, in his view.
This is in opposition to a widely shared view in LGBTQ circles that gender is as malleable as anything else homo sapiens get their hands on, especially those of the female persuasion.
It’s difficult for normal people to grasp how something like physics or calculus or building a bridge can be “gendered,” and to many Europeans, such talk triggers memories about Nazis dismissing “Jewish science” and slaughtering millions during the most horrific war in history. How about this: science is science, men are men, and women are women.
Certainly, individuals concerned about their gender identities and the struggles of the less fortunate have rights, which shall be respected, along with other foundations of Western Civilization.
Wherein lies the problem, as far as Europe’s elites are concerned. Orban’s unapologetic nationalism, embrace of Christianity, and defense of Western Civilization could be contagious and adopted by other EU members. Which would threaten many rulers’ jobs and commitments to ideas that majorities of citizens regard as fatuous, dangerous, and even suicidal.
In short, if Budapest prevails, ordinary citizens throughout the continent regain control over their lives, EU’s arrogant and dysfunctional elite structure might collapse, and Brussels would again return to a more or less ordinary city.
And that’s how Hungary may save Western Civilization.