But muh EuroNazi (((democracy)))...
Where (((democracy))) means we only allow what we fully control. Your choice is our choice. Your thoughts are our dreams.
European Parliament backs resolution calling for suspending Hungary's EU voting rights
The European Parliament supported on Jan. 18 the resolution calling on the European Council and member states to suspend Hungary's voting rights, said Petri Sarvamaa, a senior member of the European Parliament (MEP).
Earlier this month, Sarvamaa launched a petition to remove some of Budapest's membership rights due to the country's "erosion of the rule of law" and obstructive behavior in the face of EU consensus building.
The resolution, supported by 345 MEPs with 104 voting against and 29 abstaining, calls on the European Council to examine whether Hungary is committing a "serious and persistent breach" of the bloc's values under Article 7.2 of the EU treaty.
If 26 members, excluding the 27th member who is under consideration, agree that a breach is occurring, a qualified majority of the Council can suspend some of Hungary's membership rights, including voting rights, under Article 7.3 until all duties are fulfilled.
"The European Parliament has done its part; now it's up to Member States to follow through," Sarvamaa said on the social media platform X.
Earlier this week, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who is considered close to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said he would fight against any attempts to restrict Hungary's EU rights.
I wonder whether anyone who is past kindergarten level of schooling believes that what is sold today as democracy to the plebs has anything to do with Athenian democracy. Your right to vote but vote only what we approve.
Control all sides. Control at all times.
As with every concept in modern society they have twisted the language to fit their own Orwellian weaved narrative. What is sold and passed in most Western states is at best the ancient Greek oligarchic system and bears no resemblance to Athenian democracy.
Mass level hypnosis for those who still believe in the right-left dichotomy.
That might be the fatal flaw of democracy--too easy to control and manipulate. As Netanyahu said, America is very easy to move. And the larger, the easier. Athens was a lot smaller than the EU (or US) and the suffrage was restricted, and even then their Golden Age ended in tyranny. But they did have a Golden Age that shines to this day.
When we read Plato in college, we read the Dialogues in roughly chronological order and I totally loved him at the beginning--rather, I loved Socrates--but, Plato was still under Socrates' direct influence and was in his 30s when Socrates drank the hemlock and died. Plato continued to write, leaving Socrates as his main character. As Plato gets older, Socrates changes and by the time of Plato's Republic, when Plato is an old man and Athens is descending into violence and turmoil, Socrates is for banishing poets and setting up a dictatorship of philosopher-kings and all sorts of reactionary stuff. I figured Plato had strayed from Socrates' influence and turned into a less admirable, fearful old man, so I cordoned Socrates off and left him on his pedestal and became somewhat dismissive of Plato.
Noooowwwwww, however... I've put some miles behind me and discovered that the shadows on the cave's wall really were shadows on the cave's wall after all and I was one of the people I thought I was observing from the mouth of the cave.
My own civilization is disintegrating, and I feel more charitable toward Plato and have been meaning to reread the Republic.
Excellent! The first paragraph says it all.