Hungarians are not left wing. They’re voting for the left wing EU candidate because they’re a minority in Romania. Likewise Russians in Estonia and Latvia back the leftist candidates and centrist because they don’t like Baltic nationalism.
It’s group evolutionary strategy. Not some principles, otherwise we’d see these principles implemented in Hungary.
At least in Latvia, Russians also disproportionately tend to be economically less well-off because of legal and effective employment barriers, as well as differences in calculating pension if you had a history of owning an alien's passport. A lot of us just kind of are forced to rely on government and EU aid, which is a bit ironic.
I guess in AD 425, there were smart observers noting that Gothic governance had failed, and that anyway Gothic tribes were extremely divided and in conflict with one another. As a result, they confidently predicted that the tide of Barbarian invasions had started to recede and that Roman governance was inexorably reasserting itself.
Hungarians are not left wing. They’re voting for the left wing EU candidate because they’re a minority in Romania. Likewise Russians in Estonia and Latvia back the leftist candidates and centrist because they don’t like Baltic nationalism.
It’s group evolutionary strategy. Not some principles, otherwise we’d see these principles implemented in Hungary.
>This isn’t because Hungarians are progressive!
yes, the article explicitly says this
There is no left wing progressivism. They are leftist.
At least in Latvia, Russians also disproportionately tend to be economically less well-off because of legal and effective employment barriers, as well as differences in calculating pension if you had a history of owning an alien's passport. A lot of us just kind of are forced to rely on government and EU aid, which is a bit ironic.
Right still seems to be growing in western Europe, see Portugal, UK, Germany.
I guess in AD 425, there were smart observers noting that Gothic governance had failed, and that anyway Gothic tribes were extremely divided and in conflict with one another. As a result, they confidently predicted that the tide of Barbarian invasions had started to recede and that Roman governance was inexorably reasserting itself.