In eastern-european democracies ( like mine in Bulgaria ) your voting options are limited to parties that has stable corruption background, which pay media and poor citizen to vote for them. In this sense there is no way honest people to get involve in the government affairs, because they lack resources ( money, connections, etc. ) that are needed for wining ( even partly ) elections.
What drinchev said, plus: a significant proportion of the electorate is controlled (probably 10-15%) and outright bought (another 10-15%). The elections are technically fair, but those who have been in power for most of the last 25 years come with a hard advantage of 20-25% over whatever the authentic outrage can channel into voting booths.
If you're young, Western-minded and willing to work, it's much, much easier to emigrate and leave the hoi paloi to rot under their perennial red overlords, than to stay and fight the system. So people emigrate, and the shit for the rest becomes deeper.
And yet 64% of Hungary's voters still voted in the supposedly meaningless 2010 elections. Are they all suffering under this illusion? That seems like your first problem to fix.
To solve a problem by democratic means, you need a functioning democracy. I'd like to know by what definition a functioning democracy can possibly include a corrupt ruling class.
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Exciting times to live in, hopefully the people will be able to get rid of the corrupt ruling class.
In democracies, the people typically do this by voting for someone else. Why isn't that an option in Hungary?
No, the people think they do this, in reality the new boss is pretty much the same as the old boss.
In eastern-european democracies ( like mine in Bulgaria ) your voting options are limited to parties that has stable corruption background, which pay media and poor citizen to vote for them. In this sense there is no way honest people to get involve in the government affairs, because they lack resources ( money, connections, etc. ) that are needed for wining ( even partly ) elections.
You can delete words up to "Your voting options..." and you will have described the political situation in the USA.
What drinchev said, plus: a significant proportion of the electorate is controlled (probably 10-15%) and outright bought (another 10-15%). The elections are technically fair, but those who have been in power for most of the last 25 years come with a hard advantage of 20-25% over whatever the authentic outrage can channel into voting booths.
If you're young, Western-minded and willing to work, it's much, much easier to emigrate and leave the hoi paloi to rot under their perennial red overlords, than to stay and fight the system. So people emigrate, and the shit for the rest becomes deeper.
In "democracies" similar to the Hungarian one you can chose who robs you, there is no good option.
They are all the same, maybe one party called A the other B but the same people are behind all parties, and they form a strong inner circle.
They just give you an illusion of democracy, really.
And yet 64% of Hungary's voters still voted in the supposedly meaningless 2010 elections. Are they all suffering under this illusion? That seems like your first problem to fix.
(Not addressing the fact we have incredible amounts of cheating at elections)
People can get really dumb when 98% of their time is spent trying to survive on 200-300 USD a month.
Add these facts to that 200-300 USD:
- Food is generally more expensive than in the UK
- A litre of gasoline costs 2 USD
- Electricity and gas prices are more expensive then in the UK
- The VAT is 27%
etc...
It's not much of an option (in the Ukraine) when the opposition leader is in jail:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko
To solve a problem by democratic means, you need a functioning democracy. I'd like to know by what definition a functioning democracy can possibly include a corrupt ruling class.
There are no democracies, only oligarchies.