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Poland is just a young democracy, so they haven't learned how to use it properly yet. Once it sinks in that universal suffrage includes a lot of gullible people
by eikenberry 6y ago
Poland is just a young democracy, so they haven't learned how to use it properly yet. Once it sinks in that universal suffrage includes a lot of gullible people. Then you realize that with good propaganda the percentage of the population that are gullible to your influence rises to the point and manipulating them is the optimal way to rule. Sure you occasionally get other people pulling one over on them in a way you don't like, but that just means it's time to up your propaganda game.
- st1ck 6y ago> Poland is just a young democracy Please, it's much older than the US. Better examples of young (and failing) democracies would be Russia and Central Asian -stan countries.
- austhrow743 6y agoAre you trying to pass off a monarch being elected for life by the nobility as democracy or what?
- 5etho 6y agoyes, that's what he is trying to say, interesting view that's impprinted to us in school and culture, but your comment got me to think that it doesn't make any sense
- st1ck 6y agoOf course it wasn't a democracy in a modern sense, but sejm had legislative power. The system is even called szlachta democracy [0] (although that may be a bit biased name). Compare it to most of Europe (except England, Netherlands, Venice etc.) where you'd have a rise of absolute monarchy up until the French Revolution. [0] https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demokracja_szlachecka https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demokracja_szlachecka