RE: Russia and Ukraine
January 31, 2023 at 9:58 am
(This post was last modified: January 31, 2023 at 10:03 am by Leonardo17.)
A quotation on the issue of populism discussed above:
“Hungary has plunged 24 places in the corruption index since Orban returned to power in 2010. The watchdog says the country is now in the “state capture” phase where authorities are generating graft instead of stopping it.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/orban-hungary...31856.html
Hungary (ruled by the populist Victor Orban) just overtook Bulgaria as Europe’s most corrupt nation.
So what I was trying to explain to Belaqua above is this:
Politics is no longer what it used to be in the Bush era. Today social media is a great tool for insurgencies like the Arab Spring or the Women, Life, freedom movement in Iran. But people are also using it to create alternate realities to back some so called “policies” which are there to give nothing to the ordinary individual but support the interests of a limited elite.
The above example is on Victor Orban. He managed to win the elections against a unified coalition. He managed to convince the public and make them vote for him. And he is not a modern Hitler either. He’s just filling his pockets and people are still believing his nonsense.
So this isn’t working at all . I think everyone has to learn to use social media in a more safe and intelligent manner. That’s my opinion. I think people are clearly being hypnotized. I’m also thinking of events like the election of Georgia Meloni who is clearly working for the former corrupt president Silvio Bernuscoli and is openly an admirer of Benitto Mussolini. And none of these I rational decisions (I mean the people who believe in their version of reality and decide to vote for dishonest and clearly insane people).
“Hungary has plunged 24 places in the corruption index since Orban returned to power in 2010. The watchdog says the country is now in the “state capture” phase where authorities are generating graft instead of stopping it.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/orban-hungary...31856.html
Hungary (ruled by the populist Victor Orban) just overtook Bulgaria as Europe’s most corrupt nation.
So what I was trying to explain to Belaqua above is this:
Politics is no longer what it used to be in the Bush era. Today social media is a great tool for insurgencies like the Arab Spring or the Women, Life, freedom movement in Iran. But people are also using it to create alternate realities to back some so called “policies” which are there to give nothing to the ordinary individual but support the interests of a limited elite.
The above example is on Victor Orban. He managed to win the elections against a unified coalition. He managed to convince the public and make them vote for him. And he is not a modern Hitler either. He’s just filling his pockets and people are still believing his nonsense.
So this isn’t working at all . I think everyone has to learn to use social media in a more safe and intelligent manner. That’s my opinion. I think people are clearly being hypnotized. I’m also thinking of events like the election of Georgia Meloni who is clearly working for the former corrupt president Silvio Bernuscoli and is openly an admirer of Benitto Mussolini. And none of these I rational decisions (I mean the people who believe in their version of reality and decide to vote for dishonest and clearly insane people).