I have already covered the topics in this article in detail in many hours of videos. However, the videos are tens of hours long and are well-argued lectures, but not everyone will find the time for them, so I will try to summarize the facts in one concise article.
What will this article be about? The topic will be an assessment of the current political situation, and I will also talk about political forecasts for the future, especially from the perspective of social psychology. It is very sad that many important topics that I will write about here are not discussed in the media at all.
Slovakia is in a deep crisis. Concerns that the last democratic elections will be held in Slovakia are justified. From the perspective of social psychology, we will look for the reasons why this happened.
In this article, you will also learn very strong arguments that the media itself has a significant share in the current bad situation. In the article, I will talk about the topic of the extreme ecological left in the media and politics, which strongly interacts with a very large and significant voter base. The size and importance of this voter base are underestimated and misunderstood by the Bratislava media. They do not understand the regions.
Right at the beginning, it is very important to define the basic concepts. The main concept I will mention here is the "extreme left". It should be noted that political science also develops and changes. The concept of the left has a different meaning today than it did a few years ago. Currently, the term left is no longer associated only with ideology such as socialism, social policy, or sympathy for communism. The term leftist also refers to a person who feels no sympathy for socialism or social policy.
The most significant representatives of the extreme left in Slovak politics are Ján Budaj and Jaromír Šíbl, due to their extreme pseudo-ecological policies with unprecedentedly strong media support.
The phrase "left-wing liberals" is sometimes used incorrectly, because liberal politics in itself is not left-wing.
The topics of left-wing extremists also include extreme feminism, extreme animal protection, and extreme veganism.
The alleged liberal ideology of 69 genders is mistakenly referred to as the left. It is one of the most successful viral disinformation hoaxes of the far-right politicians, because no liberal politician has come up with such an idea and nothing like that exists.
In the United States, the extreme left makes no secret of wanting whites to have fewer rights than blacks, which is a strange inverted form of racism.
In the USA, the biggest problem right now is the extreme polarization of society. Conflicts between the extreme right and left. Both extremes are completely off, both extremes are wrong. This causes an extreme division of society.
Just as a matter of interest, information is increasingly emerging that certain factions of the extreme left are also supported by Russia, whether in the USA or in Europe. I saw an article in the Czech media stating that aid to Ukraine is most threatened by extreme right-wing and extreme left-wing congressmen in the United States Congress. It's a great pity that I didn't save the link to the article, but maybe you can find it by googling. So, aid to Ukraine is not only threatened by some Republicans but also by the extreme left-wing part of the Democrats, where left-wing politicians are concentrated.
Moreover, Russia can only benefit from the internal breakdown and division of society in the USA, where two extremes are in conflict. An interesting psychosocial phenomenon is that sometimes the extreme left and right can find mysterious common ground that a centrist politician disagrees with, common ground that defies common sense. There are several of them, and I will list some.
The chairman of the Czech extremist left-wing Green Party, Matej Stropnický, which is a political party with otherwise liberal themes, is a passionate admirer of Putin. You can very quickly google his views. An interesting connection to the situation in the United States. A liberal turned out to be a Russian agent. We'll see how it turns out with the PS party. Maybe we'll be surprised that some MPs for this party will start calling for leniency towards Putin and for weakening aid to Ukraine. We'll see.
And just as another interesting socio-psychological phenomenon, there is another overlap between the extreme right and the left, and that is the insane feminist proposal by former minister Kolíková on active consent in sexual intercourse. The proposal, without any discussion with experts, arose only as an initiative of the feminist movement at the ministry. Only three European states have defined sexual intercourse without active consent, and not a single one of them went to such an insane extreme as Kolíková's proposal. Kolíková refused to define what active consent is in the proposal, which in practice would mean that there would be a large space for false accusations and an overly broad interpretation of the law. Couples without a firm bond such as marriage would have to sign various forms of consent from both partners due to fear of false accusations. And this is exactly what would suit a part of the extreme right, clerical politicians, and religious fanatics, that sexuality has been radically restricted and regulated. The basic meaning of radical Christianity is to fight against sexuality, so why not properly regulate sexuality by law?
And journalists, as always, failed, once again going against the public interest. They either remained silent or even proactively and proactively presented Kolíková's proposal as something positive.
An important attribute of left-wing politics is to create various meaningless restrictions and regulations. We see this both in California in the USA, as well as in some proposals of the European Commission.
The current president also presented an extremely left-wing form of ecology with her fight against the Pezinok landfill. What do you get from closing the landfill when the waste has to be taken somewhere anyway? No resident wants to have a landfill in their vicinity. It is selfish to close the landfill in your vicinity, while twice the amount of waste will be taken to the landfill in the neighboring town.
Furthermore, her partner Juraj Rizman, a simple boy with a high school education who is also an ecological left-wing extremist, has a very negative influence on the president. I know his past and activities in the field of ecology well.
My opinion is that the president is doing a good job, except for the topic of ecology.
Ján Budaj, and the impact of his politics on the voter
Ján Budaj is the most extreme phenomenon in the history of Slovak politics, especially in the way the media treated him. Never in the history of the Slovak Republic has it happened that the media helped any politician as extremely as they helped Budaj.Budaj did crazy things throughout his term, but most people didn't know about it because the media chose to remain silent about all his scandals.
Why the media decided to manipulate public opinion remains a big question.
The fact is that if the media were as critical of Budaj as they are of Fico, Budaj would have lasted as a minister for a maximum of 3 months.
I sent a huge amount of material about Budaj to the media, but only a small part of the media decided to write about Budaj, covering at least 5% of the scandals he committed.
The editors-in-chief refuse to explain why they behaved this way and have not justified their strange behavior.
Only the daily newspapers Aktuality and Denník N are engaged in investigative journalism. These newspapers most loudly claim to be doing free and independent journalism. However, my experience with these newspapers has led me to believe that the journalists in these newspapers are neither free nor independent.
I am personally convinced that many journalists, and especially editors-in-chief, are people with worse karma than politicians.
One would expect that most journalists, and especially editors-in-chief, profess some basic values such as a sense of public interest, a sense of good, truth, and justice. It's all a myth.
It is absolutely shocking how far journalists are willing to go, how far they are willing to break new ground. Why the media decided to do this is more of a question for them – they haven't explained it to me yet.
Several mainstream journalists wrote articles in favor of corrupt groups in the field of nature conservation, and the editors-in-chief supported them in this. Aktuality and Denník N accepted bribes from these corrupt groups to write in their favor.
The most shocking scandal was that the Aktuality editorial office received a considerable amount of money from the corrupt pseudo-environmental association BROZ for creating a propaganda video. I recorded two videos about this crazy affair, where I explain it in much more detail. I didn't sleep for three days and three nights because I couldn't believe that Peter Bárdy would be willing to go that far. Well, the truth is probably that accepting bribes from various corrupt interest groups is common practice for supposedly independent media, and this one bribe that accidentally leaked to the public is probably just the tip of the iceberg.
The scandal of a corrupt group ordering an article from allegedly independent media is as serious as, or more serious than, Marián Kočner ordering an article from corrupt journalists.
I also wonder why the media do not control each other more and criticize their own financial corrupt interests. The public interest is the last thing on journalists' minds.
The media does not operate transparently. If the media had a mandatory transparent account, we would suddenly learn the truth about how the supposedly independent media operates, if we saw dubious advertisements and dubious payments from corrupt lobbying groups. Many people would be absolutely shocked if they learned the unpleasant truth about their beloved favorite media, that they are not independent at all.
And that's not to mention how some allegedly independent journalists may receive money unofficially from various interest groups in cash to write on demand.
I do not recognize Robert Fico, I have a very negative opinion of him, he tells a lot of lies at press conferences, but in one thing I think he is right, that the oligarch Oszkár Világi pays some journalists.
The most fascinating thing is how journalists have a huge double standard when it comes to corruption involving various politicians and different corrupt groups. This is a clear indicator that something is not right with the media. It is an indication that leads to the conclusion that journalists behave like politicians and write according to which lobby group pays them.
It is also an interesting phenomenon that investigative journalism in Slovakia has practically disappeared since 2020. The media are more concerned with some minor micro-cases to distract attention from serious affairs, and in the entire three and a half years, a maximum of 3 truly honest investigative articles have been published, which is lamentably little. I do not consider passive reporting on how the police are handling certain politically exposed cases to be investigative journalism. I publicly call on the editors-in-chief of the media to explain why this is so. So far, I have not heard their explanation.
The objectivity of the media regarding the huge scandals at Budaj's environmental ministry is the same as if the media were subject to official state censorship for criticizing the environmental ministry, with the threat of imprisonment for such criticism. The end result is exactly the same.
What causes society's distrust of the media?
The answer was given by the editor-in-chief Peter Bárdy himself in an interview with Ivan Mego, that "we journalists are largely to blame for the declining and record-breaking distrust". Peter Bárdy was too honest and let it slip. Peter Bárdy himself realizes what a dirty job he does, but money from corrupt groups is more important to him than honesty and ethics.Distrust in the mainstream media is closely related to the current risky political situation.
I myself appreciate Aktuality for all the good work they do. But various propaganda disinformation articles on the topic of nature protection, especially from the psychopathic journalist Jana Kubisova, are a real sewer. People from the countryside, who are most emotionally connected to nature, perceive this disinformation very sensitively and personally, which causes distrust in the mainstream media.
No one has done more to promote alternative media than Aktuality and Denník N, which have spread the most absurd disinformation on this topic.
I personally consider Peter Bárdy, Matúš Kostolný and other editors-in-chief to be traitors, because no one has done as much work to promote the extreme right as they have.
On May 15, 2022, which is more than a year ago, I uploaded a visionary video entitled
" The media promotes the far right and the SMER party . Where is the mistake and how to fix it? How Ján Budaj covers up the corruption of the SMER party. The double standards of the media."
This is an incredibly visionary video that has never been as relevant as it is today.
I sent it to the media at the time of its release, but journalists have apparently not learned from their mistakes to this day.
It is tragicomic when some media preach water and drink wine. On the one hand, they fight against pro-Russian disinformation, on the other hand, they themselves spread absurd disinformation on the topic of nature protection. But lies have short legs.
Evaluation of Ján Budaj's policy and its impact on the upcoming elections
Despite the information boycott, information about what was happening at the ministry still reaches at least 25% of the population in various forms. Budaj's insane policy left considerable trauma and scars in Slovak society, from which it will recover for many years. The media underestimated the importance of how Ján Budaj drove a huge voter base to insanity, and people are frustrated for a really justified reason.You will not find such a high concentration of fools among any other group of the population as among either right-wing or left-wing extremists. Ján Budaj surrounded himself with left-wing half-fools, and that's how his politics looked. Ján Budaj could no longer anger the rural population, especially the inhabitants of national park areas.
The basis of the ideology of left-wing extremists in the field of nature protection is hatred towards foresters, mainly because they plant trees. Ján Budaj surrounded himself with people like Michal Wiezik at the ministry. Madmen have no place in high positions, but it happened. The first State Secretary, Juraj Smatana, is one of the most radical left-wing extremists in Slovakia; he also promoted this ideology. Some journalist from Bratislava is not bothered by this problem, but for people from the countryside, who are emotionally deeply connected to nature, having such a minister who demeans the work of foresters in this way is very offensive. There is no better idea than to create huge polarization and tension in society than to appoint Budaj as minister.
In this way, you will drive at least 10 to 15 percent of voters crazy.
Another problem with Budaj is that there is strong evidence that Ján Budaj was de facto completely controlled by the corrupt BROZ group, which embezzled at least 70 million euros of EU funds. It is demonstrable that at least 95% of these EU funds were embezzled. I talk about this in great detail in several tens of hours of lectures. To a person who hears this information for the first time, it may seem absolutely unbelievable that such a thing could be true. If the media really served the public interest and really did their average job, which is required of journalists, and did not boycott informing about these affairs, then it would be a scandal at least as big as Gorila, and there would be a risk that people would go to the streets to demonstrate just like in the Gorila case.
Why journalists and the media decided to commit an absolutely irrational, insane act, to manipulate public opinion, to go against the public interest, and to conceal such a serious affair comparable to Gorilla, is a question for them. I have not yet received an answer from them.
I would also like to ask the journalists about the double standards regarding corruption in the Smer party and in the case of Ján Budaj.
Although I informed all the media, not a single article was published about the fact that the OLANO party also had its own big financial oligarch, Jaromír Šíbl, who got rich by embezzling EU funds for fake nature protection. I publicly call on the media to say and explain why they kept silent and concealed such serious information from the public. Where is the public interest here?
Furthermore, the media spread a huge amount of disinformation from the ministry's press releases. Aggressive lies and disinformation were the ministry's basic working method. I repeatedly warned the media to verify the information, but they wouldn't listen. While the media were very cautious about whether ministers from the Smer party were lying and verified the information, on the contrary, the media did not fulfill their basic role of verifying information about whether Budaj was telling the truth and presented disinformation as established truths. Interesting double standards for the Smer party compared to Budaj. I ask the editors-in-chief for an explanation as to why they acted this way.
Perhaps the most significant disinformation from the ministry was that it labeled true information as a hoax, claiming that the deformation of national parks would only be about expanding non-intervention zones. The ministry called the true information lies spread only by fascists. However, after the amendment to the law was approved, it really turned out that the deformation of national parks is only about non-intervention, which 99% of experts claimed from the very beginning, but the media still uncritically approached the ministry as if it were still telling the truth. And this is just one of several tens to hundreds of Budaj's disinformation that I have brought to the attention of the media.
And the national park reform? Well, the answer to what this reform is actually about was given by Budaj's own man, the head of the State Nature Protection, Dušan Karaska , who said that it is only about getting more EU funds for the alleged protection of nature. There is only one catch, that EU funds for nature protection are being stolen in unbelievable percentages, and I have published detailed evidence in my many hours of video lectures. The media brainwashing, which presented the national park reform as something positive, was interesting. In the case of two media outlets, we have evidence that they did not do it for free.
And the topic of bears? Part of society is fed up with the large amount of misinformation from the ministry on the topic of bears, which the media gladly spread without verifying the information. The situation is very serious, and Budaj and his associates have angered a huge part of the voter base by not addressing this issue. My message is that 5% of voters will also vote according to how political parties approach this issue. To a certain left-wing extremist who mocked the problem of a bear walking in the built-up area of Detva, I wrote the following response:
" Where do you get so much cynicism ? Aren't you ashamed? Does empathy mean anything to you? If you lived in Detva and were stressed every day about whether your child would return from school alive and well, or whether a bear would chase them, then you would understand."
Budajovci spread disinformation that the issue of bears cannot be effectively addressed because of the EU. But there is a catch. EU member states such as Slovenia, Finland, and Sweden hunt bears on a large scale. And this is how dozens of Budajovci's disinformation could be refuted one by one.
It is interesting that I do not see much interest in the so-called democratic parties prioritizing the solution of left-wing extremism and corruption in nature protection. For KDH, Sme rodina and Hlas, it is at least some marginal topic, and other political parties have not even indicated that it is a topic for them.
The Smer and Republika parties have more sharply opposed the extreme left-wing form of nature protection.
In this way, democratic parties voluntarily deprive themselves of voters. And they can blame themselves for their own stupidity.
Then let the media and media analysts wonder why the so-called non-democratic parties have such high electoral preferences. The Bratislava café is completely out of touch with reality.
We are playing with too large a voter base here. It is not the same whether 15% of voters join one side or the other.
And you don't think that the low election preferences of Heger's party, Democrats, are a coincidence. The party includes Budaj and his secretary, Šíbl. Heger supported Budaj in corruption and other crazy failures in every possible way. Nothing happened, the voters just deservedly counted it against him. Heger and Budaj tried to see how far the voters would tolerate it, and the voters counted it against them.
Comparison of corruption: Matovič's / Heger's government versus Fico's government
Both Matovič and Heger were well informed about the major scandals associated with Ján Budaj. Despite this, they did not act in a scandal comparable to Gorila, they tolerated it, let it fester and pretended not to see anything. Especially from the Christian politician Heger, I would expect him to be bothered by corruption, but he behaved unchristianly.The OĽANO and SaS parties succeeded in the elections based on anti-corruption rhetoric. They have failed miserably to keep their promises. Both parties, both parliamentary clubs, voted for the proposal of MP, millionaire, and oligarch Jaromír Šíbl on the reform of national parks. The MPs were aware that the proposal had nothing to do with nature protection and was only about Šíbl's business. Nevertheless, they voted against their conscience.
Voters have every right to be frustrated, and for perfectly rational reasons.
The Smer party never promised to fight corruption, at least not before the elections. SAS and OLANO promised to do so, and that's the difference.
The SAS and OLANO parties deceived the voters, and what they did is karmically very burdensome.
However, if we are to be truly objective, the SAS and OLANO parties are not much better than Smer in terms of corruption. In some parameters, they are even worse than Smer. Smer did not even manage to have a charismatic oligarch in its parliamentary club who could convince more than half of the MPs in parliament to vote for a legislative amendment in favor of his corrupt thieving business so that he could steal even more. When Smer members stole, it was in ministries, not in parliament through the approval of laws.
Another parameter in which OLANO became worse than the Smer party was the inability to draw personal responsibility for ministers who failed very seriously. There was a much more serious reason for Budaj to resign than for Matovič, yet it did not happen. Andrej Babiš had no problem dismissing several of his ministers if they failed. The Smer party also had no problem dismissing its ministers if they failed, such as the former Minister of Health or the former Minister of Defense after the explosion of the ammunition depot in Nováky, František Kašický, in 2007. It is interesting that the OLANO party did not even have as much self-reflection as Smer.
The media have the same share as politicians in the bad mood of society, because if they had not decided to censor Budaj's scandals, the OLANO party would have been under pressure and would have had to dismiss Budaj. If Budaj had been dismissed in time and replaced by a decent and anti-corruption minister, the enormous tension that Budaj caused would have decreased in society and we would not have to worry about whether we would have the last democratic elections here.
However, journalists do not admit their mistakes, they are not willing to learn from their mistakes, and they refuse to admit their co-responsibility for the current situation in society.
It is also tragicomic to watch journalists who, on the one hand, pretend to fight against Fico and, on the other hand, have done everything to make people watch alternative media, which has strengthened bad moods in society, ultimately leading voters to vote for Fico and the extreme right. Many journalists preach water and drink wine.
What would happen if we had an undemocratic government?
Everything has its pros and cons.Journalists like Bárdy and Kostolný would finally achieve their dream. Fico and the Republic, whom they themselves had nurtured for so long, would rule them. Let these journalists eat what they have cooked. Let karma just return to them.
The so-called democratic parties in the opposition will have time to assess where they made mistakes, learn from their mistakes, and suffer a fair punishment in the opposition for the mistakes they have made.
The media will also have enough time and space to learn from their mistakes.
And perhaps the government will succeed in at least partially cleansing nature protection from the extreme left and from corruption, such as the fact that 97% of the money from EU projects is stolen.
Another positive aspect of an extreme right-wing government is that the media will be critical of such a government, which is the right thing to do. The media was absolutely uncritical of Budaj, and it turned out very badly. The worst kind of politician is one who does not feel controlled by the media, and that is the case with Budaj.
The downside of an extreme right-wing government would be that these politicians would have more space in the media to present their toxic views, such as admiring Putin for his policies, or hating Ukrainians and minorities. If public opinion were to start leaning towards these politicians, and societal moods were to worsen, it could indeed lead towards a dictatorship, which would be another tragedy.
We can't model in advance how the situation will turn out, I don't know either.
Social psychology and political correctness on the topic of corruption in nature conservation
I believe that this topic will end up similarly to the topic of illegal migration in 2015. At first, only politicians from the extreme right had the courage to point out that mandatory quotas were a bad solution. Later, so that Kotleba's party would not take away Fico's preferences, Fico also began to promote the policy that mandatory quotas were a bad solution. Later, most members of the PS party also recognized that quotas were a bad solution.I believe that the same will happen with media and political correctness in the field of nature conservation. By censoring scandals in nature conservation by the media, this process may be prolonged in terms of time, but it will happen. It will happen that one day even for the media, censoring these scandals will be unsustainable and they will have to talk about it.
Even the so-called democratic parties will realize that if they want to have good preferences, solving the insane corruption in nature protection must be a high priority.
The extreme ecological left in the Netherlands
In the name of ecology, in the name of protecting nature from ammonia emissions, the Dutch government has decided to eliminate one-third of farmers located in protected areas of European importance Natura 2000. Some politicians do not hide the fact that the real reason is extreme vegan ideology. Other politicians claim that the ideal situation would be to eliminate not a third but half of the farmers who raise cattle. Farmers will only receive a one-time compensation from the state. The extreme left-wing pseudo-ecological ideology reminds us a bit of expropriation and collectivization under socialism. The madness and frenzy of the extreme left in the Netherlands knows no bounds.In the Netherlands, family businesses and family farms are typical, which have been built over several generations and often have a tradition of more than 100 years.
The media in the Netherlands are extremely left-wing, similar to Slovakia, and they are escalating their hatred against farmers, especially for the sharper forms of protest, because farmers are fighting for their bare economic existence.
The media accuses farmers of being against ecology when they do not want to be subjugated by the government and protest.
We see many connections between Slovakia and the Netherlands. It's a pity that we only take the negative from the West and not the positive.
Despite aggressive media attacks and public opinion manipulation, the Farmers' Political Party finished first in the regional elections; we will see how they fare in the parliamentary elections.
Extreme left-wing animal protection in Slovakia
After the 2020 elections, extreme activists managed to successfully convince a bare majority of MPs to pass a law that makes it an offense for rural residents to have a dog tied to a rope or chain. An interesting disproportion. If you tie a dog to a chain for two hours because of a visitor who is afraid of dogs, it is an offense, but if a city dweller in an apartment in an unnatural environment forgets to walk their dog for two days, it is not an offense. Not to mention that with some well-made chains, the dog has much more room to move than in an apartment.This is animal protection according to the left-wing extreme.
Irresponsible politicians and extreme activists are creating tension between the countryside and the city.
The extreme ecological left financially supported by Russia?
This information is appearing more and more often. This opinion was presented by one of the most famous Czech journalists , Jiří X. Doležal.Furthermore, an employee of the Nuclear Research Institute claimed that the extreme left in Germany, supported by Russia, wants to create Germany's dependence on Russian fossil fuels, on coal, by fighting against nuclear energy. And indeed, by shutting down nuclear power plants, the Germans are burning more coal.
The fraudster Igor Matovič
Igor Matovič's preferences are growing based on rallies where he presents anti-corruption rhetoric. Except that Matovič forgot to admit to his supporters that the entire OĽANO parliamentary group voted for the proposal of MP and oligarch Šíbl, which means Matovič has a scandal on his hands just as big as Gorila. Matovič's target group is people who have no knowledge of the OĽANO party's corruption. Due to media censorship, this information has not yet reached a significant part of the population. Igor Matovič is a fraud, a populist, and a manipulator who profits from the stupidity and ignorance of voters.Overall assessment of political parties in Slovakia. (And on the danger of clericalism)
It is very difficult to find at least one political party with preferences for parliament that would not fall into the category of the extreme left or extreme right, which would not promote at least part of these extreme ideologies.Clerical politics, banning/restricting abortions, extremely hateful rhetoric against the LGBT community, restricting sex education, promoting laws to increase financial support for the church and other special privileges for churches, making politics based on Russian propaganda, hateful rhetoric against Ukrainians, and supporting Russian aggression can be considered right-wing extremism.
I have already mentioned what falls under left-wing politics.
Some politicians promote the worst ideologies of the far-left and right-wing politics, such as Eduard Heger, and it seems that voters will rightly hold him accountable.
And in fact, it is also unnecessary to invent any labels like extreme left and right. This is just a political categorization. Any form of extremism is nothing more than a manifestation of mentally disturbed individuals who suffer from various psychological complexes and injuries that they have not healed.
Recently, normality and centrist politics, politics without extremes, have completely disappeared from our politics.
The only political party that could be called at least somewhat normal is the HLAS party.
We Are Family is not a centrist party; it has also promoted many dangerous far-right ideologies, not only through former minister Krajniak but also through Boris Kollár, who is trying to push for a statue of Cyril and Methodius in parliament. He fought very hard for the religious extremist Horecký to become Minister of Education, and there is homophobic rhetoric.
Unlike Sme rodina, the Hlas party does not polarize society with clerical politics.
Psychiatry in parliament continues. Cyril and Methodius belong in a church, not in parliament. Boris Kollár has gone mad. What motives could Boris Kollár have for this insane act? A desperate attempt to increase his declining preferences? Superstition that God will reward him with success in the elections for such a service to the Catholic Church? Religion is black magic that really works – Christian rituals work. Christians do not hide the fact that they pray for politicians so that God controls their minds, "so that God changes them". This is a very common trend in Slovak politics, that the church has an unimaginably large power, it is probably the strongest lobby group and always manages to get incomparably more benefits, advantages and privileges from politicians than the majority secular Slovak society would wish for.
And just as a side note, churches are probably the only state organizations that have only benefits and rights from the state, but no obligations or regulations. All other areas of social life are extremely strictly regulated by law, in contrast to the church.
I am convinced that similar thought processes as Boris Kollár had were also present in the Smer and SNS parties. Somehow, before elections, proposals for extremely oversized financial support for the church are sprouting like mushrooms after rain. Corrupt politicians are apparently superstitious and believe that by supporting the Catholic Church, God will forgive their corruption and bless their parties.
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The crazy tenure of former minister Ján Budaj. The "vegetarian bear" is just the tip of the iceberg.
There are no greater scoundrels than journalists who manipulated public opinion, either by remaining silent about Budaj's cases or by supporting and spreading his disinformation. Ján Budaj became famous for stating that a bear is a vegetarian. However, journalists did not realize the seriousness of the situation, that this was not Ján Budaj's only crazy statement. Budaj expressed himself with the same level of expertise practically every time he spoke about nature conservation. He used the most aggressive and insane lies and disinformation to serve left-wing extremists and their corrupt financial interests in nature conservation. It was very difficult to find a press conference by Budaj where he wouldn't say at least 10 really crazy pieces of disinformation on the topic of nature conservation.The Progressive Slovakia (PS) party has undergone major changes towards radicalization. The history of the PS party in the years 2020-2023. Forecasts for the future.
I notice that the PS party of 2020 was not the same as it is in 2023. PS was founded on the slovensko.digital platform, which was a very positive and rational project. Back in 2020, the PS party could still be considered a decent liberal party without any signs of extremism. They only had one ecological radical, Martin Hojsík, in their party, which was still tolerable. (The other pseudo-ecological radicals were in the Spolu party). They had a clear position that they rejected migration quotas. Since then, however, the PS party has only gone downhill.The fact that Biháriová became the chairwoman for two years proved to be the first major failure.
Another scandal was the transition of the mentally disturbed MEP and extremist pseudo-ecological radical Michal Wiezik from the Spolu party to the PS party. To make matters worse, Wiezik also obtained dubious corrupt EU funds for alleged nature protection in a conflict of interest.
Another failure was the financial support of the candidate for mayor of Bratislava, Matúš Vallo, despite huge scandals, such as the fact that he ran an inappropriately strong election campaign with city money during his term, spending up to 700 thousand euros a year on his advertising (officially presented as expenses for the city's marketing communication). A proper mayor should attract voters with honest and hard work, not with strong marketing.
To make matters worse, the PS party has been joined by extremist pseudo-animal protectors, extremist vegans, and an extremist feminist movement that opens up many provocative topics that divide society. The PS party has merged the waste of left-wing extremism from all over Slovakia.
Many of the likely future PS MPs have significantly changed their attitude towards topics such as migration quotas, or present an uncritical view of Islam. Several members of the PS party express themselves in the context that migration quotas would be OK for them.
The topic of migration quotas and similar proposals is still alive in 2023 because, as both the media and the Czech Minister of the Interior Rakušan have stated, even more migrants are currently coming from Muslim countries than during the 2015 migration crisis. The only difference is that this topic is not as widely covered by the media because we are overwhelmed by other problems, such as recovering from the financial crisis caused by COVID, recovering from the energy crisis, or the war in Ukraine.
Another living example of the fact that the PS party does not want to unite society but to divide it and wants to move towards radicalization was the party's press conference on the topic of ecology, where the at least somewhat moderate Hojsík did not get space, but on the contrary, the biggest radical Michal Wiezik presented his psychopathic thought processes at the press conference, despite the fact that Hojsík is a founding member and vice-chairman of the party. And about two months ago, I specifically warned Michal Šimečka to keep Wiezik as far away from him as possible and I also provided him with evidence that Wiezik suffers from a personality disorder and that his organization accepted corrupt EU funds. By the way, I don't know what the legislation is, but it is quite possible that an MEP is forbidden to accept any subsidies from the EU. The embezzlement of EU funds is difficult to prove legally, but in this case, it is quite possible that the very acceptance of EU subsidies is illegal and it would be easier to prove it legally.
I don't have a good feeling about this, why didn't Hojsík get any space at the press conference at all? It seems to me as if there are "persecuted" people in the PS party who represent the moderate wing and are at least somewhat interested in uniting society rather than dividing it.
I also see a big problem with Chairman Michal Šimečka. I am a person who has very good intuition, and in 95% of cases, what I see through intuition is also confirmed rationally. I feel something very bad about Šimečka; he seems like a mentally retarded person to me. On the contrary, I had a much better feeling about his predecessor, Truban, and I perceived him more positively.
Not to be critical, but PS also has certain positives as an opposition to extremely clerical politicians, there are also certain positive liberal topics, opposition to clerical political ideology such as restricting sex education, restricting abortions. Liberal Christians who enter politics will have more space in the media to present to the public and believers an unknown liberal form of Christianity. Many conservative Christians will be inspired that Christianity does not have to be only about fanaticism but also about liberal interpretation, liberal practice of faith. The reason for the interesting preferences of this party is not extreme left-wing topics, but mainly opposition to clericalism in politics.
The separation of church and state should also be a topic for PS.
My two videos about the PS party. Rare information that you won't learn from the media. Link 1 , Link 2
The left-wing radicalization of the PS party is causing a problem in that it discourages all moderate, decent people and quality experts from joining this party. The party is thus voluntarily impoverishing itself.
The PS party cannot be perceived as a monolith. The PS party also includes quality people who joined the party when it was not yet radicalized and do not agree with the radical direction of the party. These are people primarily from the regions and are hierarchically lower in the party. It is questionable whether these people will gain courage and will not be afraid to speak out at the party congress that they do not agree with the radical direction of the party. It is questionable whether the party will expel the moderate members, or whether these people will leave the party voluntarily.
In any case, this is how the party will deprive itself of decent, quality, and moderate people, no matter how it turns out. The departure of moderate members from the party will cause the party to move towards even greater left-wing radicalization. These are my predictions.
Forecasts of the political direction of the PS party
If the party gets into government, the party's preferences will significantly decline, either due to numerous scandals or because more and more people will start to get annoyed by the party's left-wing radicalization. It would be positive if the party leader was a person who is interested in leading the party in a moderate direction and would curb the radicals in the party as much as possible. Ideally, the biggest radicals in the party should be completely excluded.Similar to the Kotlebovci and Republika parties, the PS party will also influence its voters towards radicalization. While the Republika party leads voters towards love for Putin and hatred towards LGBT, the PS party, on the other hand, will lead its voters towards pseudo-ecological radicalization, extreme feminism, an uncritical attitude towards Islam, and so on. This will cause a great division of society into the extreme right and left.
Islam vs. the extreme left in politics and the media
Like some members of the PS party, some journalists claim that we should look critically at Christian fundamentalism but uncritically at Islam. I do not agree with this attitude. This is a double standard and a contradiction.Islam is 400 to 500 years behind Christianity in terms of development.
400 to 500 years ago in Europe, there were also major religious wars; it was a larger conflict than the First and Second World Wars combined, and civilians suffered greatly from the war, directly or indirectly.
Similar religious wars, although not to the same extent, exist in Islam today as they did in the past in Christian Europe.
I do not consider it right to uncritically look at people who have no understanding of human rights, women's rights, who perceive Sharia law as superior to secular law.
It is also quite tragicomic when the same journalist or politician who is critical of Christian fundamentalism and defends radical feminism claims that we should look at Islam uncritically. A very strange contradiction.
The topic of LGBT, registered partnerships, politics and Christianity
The LGBT issue is undoubtedly a very important political topic, as well as a topic of hybrid warfare from Russia and propaganda that seeks to divide society on this issue. The pressure of Russian propaganda has temporarily slowed down the increasingly tolerant direction of society. Russian propaganda has caused society to become properly conservative.I believe that after the defeat in the war in Ukraine and the subsequent change of the political regime in Russia, Russia will end its hybrid war against the West.
I agree with the opinion that the LGBT community is a kind of modern-day Jew, a kind of lightning rod for the frustrated part of the population.
Intolerance towards LGBT people is also caused by ignorance. Most people probably still don't know that homosexuality is not a modern invention of liberals, but was an important part of almost all prehistoric and ancient cultures across the planet, as well as many indigenous cultures. It is quite rational and reasonable for us to be tolerant of at least the current alleged 4 percent of such people.
Also, the church had no objections to homosexuality until the 11th century. It is interesting that the believers themselves do not know their own history.
Historian Professor John Boswell also brought an interesting scientific paper that the church in the past performed marriages for same-sex couples as well.
However, it is only a matter of time before the church and Christians adopt a more tolerant attitude. The church has extremely strong and manipulative programs to make it as resistant as possible to any reforms, but a reform will certainly happen in the church, although it will be significantly delayed.
In the past, the church referred to the Old Testament of the Bible during religious wars between Catholics and Protestants or in the case of wars against pagans. Today, the church distances itself from the religious wars in the Old Testament. A similar fate awaits the LGBT issue.
The state should not pretend that the LGBT community does not exist, and registered partnerships should be a matter of course from the perspective of an educated person. Some states allow heterosexual couples to enter into registered partnerships, which could also expand their options.
It is tragic to observe political discussions on this topic, which are based on madness, irrationality, Russian propaganda, and a race to see who can kick more and who can offend LGBT more, instead of a rational discussion.
The fact that it is taught in some Western countries that children can freely choose their gender does not seem to be confirmed yet. I have not seen any evidence anywhere so far. It seems to be one of the most successful hoaxes.
It must be understood that a registered partnership is not equivalent to marriage, so being a moderate homophobe, I would be the first to vote for registered partnerships to make it clear that homosexual couples are not equal to heterosexual ones. For that to happen, conservative and Christian politicians would have to be able to think at least a little rationally and not just be guided by Russian propaganda.