• Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Do you think western governments realize that there is a slowly growing disillusionment with democracy in their populations and that their increasingly erratic bullshit is feeding it?

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      2 months ago

      As long as the politics in the crisis go right they’ll be fine; it’s just another round of primitive accumulation

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      2 months ago

      I think they do, they just don’t care. Why would they? They have offshores and backup houses and shit. Even in case of public unrest, it will most likely be anti-socialist, so the bourgeoisie will remain in power, even if some talking heads change

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      2 months ago

      Well, they are meant to be punished for it at the next election. The problem is the media makes everything a big scandal when not all of it is.

      In this case he’s subverting the will of the people, so he should be destroyed at the ballot. However the division and rise of the far right means it could short that way too. Those who shifted left last time might shift back having shown their discontent.

      He’s saying he doesn’t want Parliament to have a no confidence vote, bit if there is non stable government as voted, that’s what is supposed to happen. Then return for election again.