{"id":5110,"date":"2013-06-09T15:56:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T19:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5110"},"modified":"2013-06-09T15:56:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T19:56:28","slug":"the-huffington-posts-concern-about-the-cancer-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5110","title":{"rendered":"The Huffington Post&#8217;s concern about the cancer of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:MagyarsOutsideHungary.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5111\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MagyarsOutsideHungary-300x206.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MagyarsOutsideHungary-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MagyarsOutsideHungary-1024x704.png 1024w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MagyarsOutsideHungary.png 1402w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>John Feffer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/john-feffer\/hungary-the-cancer-in-the_b_3402128.html\">writing for the Huffington Post<\/a>, expresses his grave concern over political developments in Hungary in recent years. He suggests that Hungary may be symptomatic of a cancer that is spreading across Europe: a rejection of liberal values, a rise of nationalism and xenophobia, combined with a growing distrust in European institutions.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could argue that Feffer is wrong. But he isn&#8217;t. Not only is some of the political rhetoric coming from Hungary frightening, but so is the attitude of ordinary people towards the country&#8217;s Roma minority, towards Europe, towards Western values.<\/p>\n<p>Yet as Feffer notes, Hungary is not alone: similar sentiments are also on the rise elsewhere in Europe. And unless the EU manages to get its economy under control, things will get worse. Indeed, I have a feeling that the worst is yet to come, and that things will get a lot worse before they&#8217;ll get any better.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5110' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Feffer, writing for the Huffington Post, expresses his grave concern over political developments in Hungary in recent years. He suggests that Hungary may be symptomatic of a cancer that is spreading across Europe: a rejection of liberal values, a rise of nationalism and xenophobia, combined with a growing distrust in European institutions. I wish <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5110' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hungary","category-politics","category-21-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5115,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions\/5115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}