“Let’s help the losers!”
he recommends on his Facebook page the in principle, he completely withdrew from public life Ferenc Gyurcsány. The former prime minister also disappeared from Facebook for a while, then returned, but as a writer, and now illustrated with a picture of a coffee pourer, he also politicizes a bit. He helps the losers.
According to him, the winner has nothing to explain, he can say that he was right. “In front of the loser, however, there are walls. Not simple walls, but walls blocking understanding. Because understanding the reason for the defeat, and even more so processing it, is an ungodly difficult task,” writes Gyurcsány, who has become a bit of a politician again.
He separated the defeats that exist in politics. According to him, there is something that hurts; something that puts you out of power for years and something that you can’t come back from. He calls the latter a historic defeat. In his reflection, he writes that in this case, that person loses the ability to later honestly say: we were right. “The historic defeat retroactively rewrites the meaning of previous decisions. What seemed like courage until then may turn out to be stubbornness,” reflects the former prime minister.
The dear reader can also find out the reasons for the historical defeat, Ferenc Gyurcsány lists here when someone wants to divert his country from a historically deeply defined path. According to him, the second reason is when someone does not notice that the historical situation has changed. “A new society, a new public, a new generation, new fears, new desires appear, and he still speaks with the old phrases.”
The third reason is the loss of proportion.
He also describes the stages of the fall, including wear and tear (scandal, bad decisions), and then, according to Gyurcsány, the most dangerous stage: power loses the right to tell stories. “He still speaks, he still explains, but he no longer gives the meaning of the words.” He describes the future of the losers as saying that they can only come back if they don’t explain, but understand.
The former prime minister gives three examples of historical defeats: Gaulle, Reza Pahlavi or Gorbachev.
“Of course, most people would be curious to know what I think about my own defeat or that of Viktor Orbán. I will not make it easy for them. Not only because not everything is what it seems at first glance.”
Ferenc Gyurcsány concludes his lines with this mysterious twist.
