Populist, billionaire and self-proclaimed “Trumpist” Andrej Babis won the Czech parliamentary election Saturday in a political comeback that put the country on a course away from supporting Ukraine and toward Hungary and Slovakia, which have taken a pro-Russian path.
That’s the idea of democratic politics. That we elect intelligent people to govern us in the best way. Problem is some smart (and also dumb) people are realising there are way more dumb people which can be easily manipulated/convinced with populism to gain power for their own sole advantage.
That’s why the intelligent have to pick the intelligent and then have to do the convincing themselves.
The joke is that the most likely outcome is the same as what the smart people do.