- As we are aware, the laws of the universe can never be altered. Try as much as we supposedly intelligent and homogenous humankind wish to initiate suitable endeavours, certain aspects of this fascinating universe will continue to remain unaltered. Humanity may boast of innumerable and unimaginable advancements, innovations, inventions, initiatives, and developments over millennia, but the Sun will always rise in the East and will set in the West. Period. Of course, the cyclical aspect of life’s churning, too, cannot be altered even though human endeavour has attempted to best the invisible power guiding us from our mundane existence. Time and again, Mother Nature has asserted unquestionable superiority over us.
PC: Al Jazeera
- Like it or not, change is the only constant that makes us realise how characteristically transactional our existence is, despite claiming to have achieved so much vis-à-vis exciting introductions. The same phenomenon applies to various government structures as well. A political party blessed by the electorate functions at the pleasure of the people, who are its representatives entrusted with the responsibilities to frame policies, guidelines, statutes, and Acts to further the cause of the nation. In a democratic governance, a party once elected for a particular duration may continue to receive the blessings of the people based on the socio-welfare and economic measures introduced successfully. The patronage may not continue for eternity, though.
PC: Hungarian Conservative
- The last few decades have shown this phenomenon when democratically elected parties/leaders have made way for the new, reminding about the democracy’s penchant for change. The latest incident reaffirming this phenomenon was played out in Hungary. Greeting a massive crowd, cheering alongside the River Danube, Peter Magyar said, “We did it”. He is set to be Hungary’s next PM. Viktor Orban, after four consecutive terms, didn’t just lose his majority, but took a shellacking. It was a high 78% turnout that proved the ‘kryptonite’ to his strongman playbook. He had packed courts, rewritten electoral laws, handed media to oligarchs, embedded loyalists across the civil service, and his party, Fidesz, had built powerful financial dependencies, aka corruption.
PC: Financial Times
- Yes, a projected 138/199 parliamentary seats have gone to the Magyar’s Tisza party. It was feared that, even if he was defeated, Orban wouldn’t accept defeat peaceably. That’s a fear with much debt to the US’s Jan 6 Capitol riots. But the sheer mathematical magnitude of the Hungarians’ vote put paid to any ‘stolen election’ nonsense. Every political movement, be it the main right-wing or left-wing, nationalist or globalist, centrist or opportunist, whatever, has a shelf life. No winning coalition coheres forever. Because competing interests, demographics, and culture all shift under a country’s feet. Even manufactured nostalgia has a shelf life. Ultimately, the government must answer to the people. It’s people alone who will make or break political parties/leaders. Simple.
