hopefully circumstances worsen quickly enough that it'll be noticable for everybody so that the general public can clearly identify it as a direct consequence of this maniac being elected. If its deteriorating too slowly people might just not notice it as much and might go along with all the coming explanations ( probably immigrants, leftists, blahblah). If there's a quick look into the abyss people might wake up and get into action.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If there’s a quick look into the abyss people might wake up and get into action.

And vote for the politicians that gave them slow decline again...

[–] orgrinrt@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or, at any rate, someone else rather than this specific one giving them either the fast or the slow decline. At least there’s a chance, then, that people vote for something other than that.

Regularly worse is still better than significantly worse.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 7 points 11 months ago

The thing is, in weak democracies there's rarely "someone else" that will fix things. Ukraine got super lucky with Zelensky but even he looked like a total crook when elected. Pretty much only populists can win elections in countries like that and it's impossible to tell if the populist is saying populist things to get rich or to actually try fixing things. Most of the time they just want power and money and people that take the risk and vote for them have big chance of getting if more fucked.

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