02-09-2017, 02:10 AM
(02-09-2017, 01:48 AM)Thryleon link Wrote:Historically speaking that's exactly how revolutions begin and how Governments have been overthrown. What it usually results in is war. Sometimes Civil, but over the last 100 years its mainly been more geopolitically focussed.
From what I can see, we are living in a crony capitalist and crony democratic world, where people are sold the illusion of choice and freedom to comply with the ruling class.
Its possible that Trump winning the election has made reality hit home, and Id wager that people are fed up with politics. The thing is, this isnt isolated to the USA, from what I can see people have been turning away from elections globally and are generally turning to non traditional political options in liew of voting for the status quo because they are genuinely tired of the crap they are served up.
You make a good point Thry...this is the era of the alternates, the anything different must be better than what we have viewpoint... a lot of people are doing it tough and Trump is seen as a messiah no one cares how he does it, they just want the problems in the USA fixed,watched a doco on Russian neo nazi type groups and there is real hatred of foreigners in Russia...Putin fuels it and he is now a loved figure by disenfranchised Russian youth.
Find someone to blame for your countries problems and you are a fair chance to get elected...I'm not an expert on Greek Politics but the far right group "Golden Dawn" seemed to have emerged in a similar fashion...
The whole thing reminds me of a little german corporal who sold the same message of blame for his countries problems and got himself into power...
Lucky we live in Australia...