What's Happening In Budapest?

What's happening on the Danube sounds awfully familiar and can be read as an augury of our republic's future.  Especially sobering is the appearance of Massachusetts's own Gerrymandering in the land of the Magyars.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/world/europe/foes-of-hungarys-government-fear-demolition-of-democracy.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha22