Index – National – Orbán scores own goal, Gyurcsány flees

Public talk is a popular game very popular all over the world. Despite the fact that the state organization is not a horse race and, above all, it is not a spectacular sport.

The ruling party wears with nose lengthbut that’s it First half balance, no way the game ended. Now the opposition the ball bounces in half. Can a favorite of an army pilot? Especially that slope of the track. A secret favorite yes break the lost series? Or huge side shot it’s all because it doesn’t they play in a league?

All track attack The strategy so far seems to be working. However, maybe Red card receive from voters the for bumps below the belt. In any case, currently head to head They’re available. But will it be successful? lean on two shoulders The opponent? Obsession eruption victory it will be? THE form time anything can happen. A commissioner: on a winning team do not change. Even a little they see in the field.

Other times maybe it wouldn’t be worth a point to concatenate public phrases borrowed from sportscaster lingo, but here and now it was necessary tear down the ball high. Why

We’ve already written about the biggest political slogan trick here, today we take a closer look at public discourse. When one, be it a voter, a politician, a journalist or an expert, seeks a visual metaphor, one of the most obvious areas of immersion is precisely the world of sports. Why pay.

Works in all situations, regardless of side

If we are very much in favor of winning, but we would be modest:

The game, the 90 minutes, must be played with honor and hard, until the last whistle. (Viktor Orbán in March 2018)

If we lose first:

There is a way for the ball to bounce off the goalpost. (Orbán, on the 2015 interim elections in Tapolca)

If we fall with moderate dignity:

Although the goal tape in the parties’ competition was interrupted by the civil alliance, the edible silver medalist and the flashy bronze medalist teamed up to be able to stand on the top step of the podium. (Orbán on the 2002 defeat)

If we could polish ourselves:

Messi also does not stop because there are talented twenty-somethings on the field. (Gyurcsány in 2017 on whether it is a column)

If we feel sorry for the one who will soon defeat us without problems:

From NB I, the opposition fell back to the county’s first class. (István Tarlós last February)

If we strive to have spirit guides:

Today, the game is dictated by the right wing, which tells us what sport we play in. In vain do we say that we play volleyball when they play soccer. Either we make a soccer team or we fall behind. (Gyurcsány in 2015)

If we imagine ourselves as millions of wild foreign trainers:

If we are concerned about the calm of the disadvantaged:

I’m a goalkeeper, I’m not going to cheat, I’m not a Turkish striker. (Bajnai Gordon in 2009)

If we are breaking up with our party companions:

In recent months, it has become clear that it is not possible to row in two directions in a boat. (András Schiffer on the resignation of the dialogue in 2013)

Talking to our old friends:

For me, Nuestro País is like a team with eleven midfielders on the field. There is no goalkeeper, no defense, no midfielder, no winger, and everyone wants to score a goal. (Ádám Mirkóczki last year)

If we don’t think of anything:

We have reached a proper draw to move forward. (István Ujhelyi on Orbán’s negotiations with the EU this summer)

If we only stop in Brussels, Luxembourg or just about anything:

They won’t be able to mock us, in Hungary our team’s defensive line has strong legs, our ball scorers are also strong. (Orbán on public radio in May this year on the quota of migrants)

If we analyze:

Fidesz has sixteen on the field, the opponent has eight, they set the rules, give the judge, the edge marker, change the rules on the fly. And even on the system, only a 5-0 win earns all three points. (József Debreczeni in 2017)

Or alone:

Every game lasts until we win. (Orbán a few weeks ago on national politics)

In soccer, the important thing is not to run where the ball is, but where the ball will be. (Orban on the coronavirus in April this year)

By the way, the latter is a recycled bon mot, since in his 2010 annual appraiser, Viktor Orbán said the same thing on a chessboard: “Don’t skate where the puck is right now, but where it will be!” Important words are these, you have to see.

But why (trouble if) we support?

Sports metaphors are obviously popular because they are immediately understood by the masses and are easy to experiment with. But there is a big problem with them. We’ve gotten so used to them that we don’t even think about it

Someone must always win in this logic, against someone. While a society is not a zero-sum game in which the participants are on opposite sides, we must live side by side.

Furthermore, the situation in Hungary is even worse for two reasons. On the one hand, a common soccer fetish characterizes one side of the national political palette as well known. Which brought a further proliferation of drunkenness. On the other hand, the

(György Baló, András Bárdos, András Bánó, etc.). Presumably, this was because they had a camera routine that was not ideologically compromised by the previous regime. Thus, the jargon of sportscasters strongly shaped the nascent political language of the new Hungarian democracy.

Jeffery L. Bineham For example, according to a professor of rhetoric in the US, such fanatic vocabulary makes it difficult to directly agree between cases, and

in western politics.

That is, what we gain with a striking phrase, we lose many times in our daily life. For example, cheering on ours even if they play worse than their opponent. And since the team is first, some softness will fit if it is to our advantage, as only victory matters.

And the nowhere coincidence is always blown at the word level when we’re best at it.

and we always push it to where our ball just rolled. At least, linguistic self-harm has now become a true mass sport.