How to build democracy — in an authoritarian country | Tessza Udvarhelyi

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🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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"Today, Hungary is in the gray zone between a dictatorship and a democracy," says activist Tessza Udvarhelyi. "This did not happen overnight." In a rousing talk, she reminds us just how close any country can come to authoritarianism — and offers on-the-ground lessons for how to keep democracy alive through focus, determination and imagination. (Followed by a brief Q&A with TED curator Cloe Shasha Brooks)

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	It's Ted Talks Daily.
0:10.0	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:12.0	Imagine if the kind of government that upheld It's Ted Talks Daily, I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:12.7	Imagine if the kind of government that upheld racism,
0:15.8	worker exploitation, and homophobia took over.
0:19.2	And then it got reelected three more times.
0:22.1	It happened in Hungary. And in her 2023 talk from Ted Democracy,
0:27.0	Movement Builder Tessa Udvahueh reminds us just how close the rest of our countries can come to
0:32.3	authoritarianism and how to keep democracies alive.
0:36.4	Stick around for a brief Q&A between Tessa and Ted Curator Chloe Shasha Brooks, all coming up after
0:42.1	a break.
0:45.7	Like TED Talks, you should check out the TED Radio Hour with NPR.
0:50.2	Stay tuned after this talk to hear a sneak peek of this week's episode.
0:55.0	What does living in an authoritarian country and the frog have in common?
1:01.0	I'm sure you've heard about the metaphor of the boiling frog that gets slowly
1:04.8	cooked until it dies without even noticing. Well this is what Hungary has felt like
1:10.0	for the past 13 years.
1:15.0	After 40 years of state socialism, we started out with a lukewarm democracy in the 1990s.
1:19.0	It was not a democratic paradise,
1:21.0	but it was a more or less functioning democracy.
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