To go or not to go

This is, however, not about politician-excluding civilians demonstrating against exclusion.
The Hungarian political system is based on the aggressive “I am OK, you are not OK” existential disposition, commonly referred to as “splitting” in psychiatry. In other words politicians, for a very long time, have manipulated voters by a number of pathological ways including the projecting of enemy figures onto each others. Election campaigns of both Fidesz and MSZP have artificially generated mass psychoses and fear, in order to benefit from the civil-war-like state by the maximalisation of their voters. The system is not only counter-productive, it also greatly reduces the credibility of politicians.
Hence, citizens refuse to deal with politicians. In fact they are not the only ones.
While being well aware of the fact that exclusion and right-wing extremism are a real problem in Hungary, citizens refuse to include politicians in the solution-seeking process. It seems like the citizens are better off without hypocritical politicians who are trying to benefit even from social ills.
Politicians and leaders of democratic countries are expected to be committed to serve human and civil rights; otherwise the country in question is not to be called democracy any more.
From this angle, the PM’s participation in the Tarka Magyar Peace March is praiseworthy, and acceptable no less. Gyurcsány, as the country’s first man, should make it very clear to the public that he stands by the underlying values of democracy under any circumstance.
On the other hand, the PM’s act may be viewed as an attempt to regain popularity amongst voters by demonstrating a soft spot for the victims of the existent and threatening discrimination. It does actually make me wonder: was Gyurcsány demonstrating against the social exclusion of minorities or that of himself?
I firmly believe it is up to everyone’s private judgment and political taste to decide whether the Prime Minister, who attends a peace march and waves his red tie in the end as a final act of the multicolored Magyar demonstration, is a “shiny- armoured knight” or a “hypocritical soap-opera hero”.
After all, we are a democracy.