Populist, billionaire and self-proclaimed “Trumpist” Andrej Babis won the Czech parliamentary election Saturday in a political comeback that put the country on a course away from supporting Ukraine and toward Hungary and Slovakia, which have taken a pro-Russian path.
What the hell is going on with Czech people, looking at the USA and Hungary and thinking “yup, that’s how we wanna roll”?
The people on this planet are mostly dumb as fuck. Change my mind. No, seriously. I am begging you to change my mind!
Cooperate with the clever ones.
That’s the idea of democratic politics. That we elect intelligent people to govern us in the best way. Problem is some smart (and also dumb) people are realising there are way more dumb people which can be easily manipulated/convinced with populism to gain power for their own sole advantage.
That’s why the intelligent have to pick the intelligent and then have to do the convincing themselves.
The joke is that the most likely outcome is the same as what the smart people do.
A decade of Influence by unregulated billionaire owned social media and Russian bots pushing anti democratic rhetoric would be my guess.
Unfortunately, it’s the future of Europe, we will all be dictatorships by the 2030s. To those who still care about the democratic values, enjoy it while you can, it won’t last.
This is the reality.
I’m beginning to think there could be a democracy-dictatorship cycle. Takes about a hundred years for a full revolution to take place.
It’s always dictatorship, just by different means. Democracy is just too unstable with an internet that makes controlling information very difficult.
You could be on to something as far controlling the masses are concerned. Different tools were used in different times, but the games is still essentially the same.
However, the Arab Spring showed how fragile dictatorships can be when people start using the social media. Nowadays, we’re seeing how the dictators are using the very same tools for their advantage.