Poor people who voted demagogues are blamed unfairly that they are irrational.
But I think that is completely rational.
Most of the lottery tickets are bought by poor people.
Why ? Hope, with 1$ you can't buy much, but 1$ lottery tickets can change your life.
Of course is making more sense to save more or buy bread.
But if the lottery ticket is free, you can use it only once at 4 years?
Then it make sense to gamble.
Middle class and rich people don't want to risk their wealth at elections so they vote for stability.
The former even buy politicians to protect their assets.
Poor people on other side have nothing to lose, and everything to win from changing the system.
The Georgescu victory in first round for Romanian elections , wasn't a victory of TikTok.
It was a loss of establishment, after 2 years of pandemic, they had the bright idea to liberalize the prices of energy for households.
Of course the prices rose, with 30%, in part also because of speculations at energy exchanged.
Government didn't prioritized irrigations , and the drought of last year wipped out the incomes of small farmers.
Also government decided to increase taxes, which cooled down the economy.
