Mohacsy's Safe Portfolio Member Forum

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Viktor Orbán has certainly made Hungary a prime example of 21st Century fascism within a quasi-democratic structure but that doesn't exonerate us from our horrible downfall over the last 40 plus years. Over the last four days we drove through over 2,000 miles of the US and homeless encampments are everywhere. Since I lived in CA when Reagan was Governor I remember him closing 'insane asylums' as quickly as he could to toss these poor folks out on the street in the mid-70s. Over the last 50 years every other government entity followed suite and now our cops have to manage the fallout. So, of course, many of the best people have left the policing business, same for the education business as managers take the place of educators, (that's another issue). Our fascists are hard at work undermining democracy and it starts with undermining trust in all of our institutions. Let's not demonize Hungary without acknowledging our own slide down this path. CPAC held their convention in Hungary last year. By a large margin, those that remain in the Republican party support Trump even if he's convicted of one or more of his 91 crimes. Are we that different?