Over 2300 dead in Turkey

[Leonardo17]

   Time Magazine has a very nice summary article on what has really happened in South-Eastern Turkey. Of course natural disasters are simply terrible things. But what is important here is to learn the lessons and understand how populism works. With his state controlled media, his Putin-style propaganda machine, his troll farms that promote all sorts of nonsense on social media networks Erdogan has managed to present himself as an almighty neo-Ottoman type of ruler. He polarized society with Donald Trump type methods. He ignored and mocked intellectuals, scientists, journalists, alpinists. He filled very trustworthy institutions with the leaders of religious sects. He presented himself as a modern era prophet who understood religion better than anyone else. For 20 years all we had here was extremes, incompetence in all areas + mobs that stood behind the AK Party organization just like the black-shirts of Italian fascists or the brainwashed mobs of the Third Reich who stood with their leader even when the Red Army was pushing for its final strike on Berlin.
 
   There was a huge earthquake disaster (the Marmara earthquake) in August 1999. Some political islamists had attributed this even to a “divine retribution” to the secular regime in Turkey (In fact it would not be an exaggeration to say that that event did help this AK Party to seize power at that time). What I am going to do is something similar. I see this event as a warning to the whole world actually. (I mean that this natural event has exposed the true nature of populist ideologies. If it’s pure coincidence, this coincidence should help to see what governments that take their power from troll-farms and disinformation are really doing – or not doing to be more precise ) This is what populism is. These guys (or gals) just stand there as if they have the solution to everything and they are not one of those hypocrites who do nothing but steal from the ordinary people. This event simply demonstrates that everything that populist leader pledge to their people (wherever these populists may be). Is nothing but emptiness. They simply don’t qualify. They are the exact opposite of what they are claiming to be. So here is the full article.
 
 https://www.yahoo.com/news/erdo-obsessio...52459.html


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