Wisdom cannot be taught, only self-learned. Think about all the wisdom that people tried to pass down to you when you were young, how much of it you actually in

Wisdom cannot be taught, only self-learned. Think about all the wisdom that people tried to pass down to you when you were young, how much of it you actually internalised at the time vs what you had to learn by yourself and then had an "a-ha moment" when you noticed someone years before had warned you of it. There's nothing Western governments or societies can do to steer a whole other society/culture, and I think you haven't really experienced other cultures truly if you think you can steer the voting population into better decisions. It requires a well educated population to understand what "good governance" even means, it requires a stable, out of survival mode, society to reason about long term consequences to society vs short term individual benefits. When someone is barely surviving they will most often vote for someone who promises them a better life, without critical thinking (stemming from my 1st point on education) there's no way for the individual to understand complex issues and why a populist won't solve it.