Seeing this election unfold from the inside the country has turned me simultaneously more anti-establishment and anti-democratic. The candidate that could have

Seeing this election unfold from the inside the country has turned me simultaneously more anti-establishment and anti-democratic. The candidate that could have potentially won is an imbecile that dresses well, has good diction and spouts jingoism about God and country. He also says stuff like maybe we didn't land on the moon and soda's have microchips. The voters are poor and uneducated and just like Trump seems like the poor's man idea of a rich person, so was he the uneducated person's idea of an intellectual. TikTok did not sway them much, it just presented the candidate. The political establishment has been gorging itself on public funds and the urban intellectuals (who had the other hopeful candidate) are simply copying US left-leaning ideology in a country that has vastly different problems. For instance, abortions are perfectly legal in Romania, yet they keep bringing reproductive rights onto their agenda, instead of focusing on massive corruption and on improving the economy. Each political faction seems to filter for candidates that are either unrealistic ideologues or the most corrupt individuals in the European Union. Let this maybe be a warning for the future: an uneducated democracy is not easier or harder to manipulate, it's simply random and unpredictable.