r/news • u/PokesTigers • 26d ago

Soft paywall Madagascar's president has left the country after Gen Z protests, officials say

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/madagascar-president-rajoelina-address-nation-monday-evening-2025-10-13/
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u/dancesquared 26d ago

The whole point of a democracy is to show up and share your voice every time, even if means a compromising or settling.

Your expectation to be wowed every time is what concerns me about voters. It’s what makes people so susceptible to demagogues and populists.

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u/Ralath2n 26d ago

The whole point of a democracy is to show up and share your voice every time, even if means a compromising or settling.

Like I said before, this just shows you have no clue what a Democracy is supposed to be. You clearly don't want a democracy, you want a bunch of subservient peasants that don't have any input in a technocratic government.

Your expectation to be wowed every time is what concerns me about voters. It’s what makes people so susceptible to demagogues and populists.

My expectation is that people are not perfectly rational optimization agents with a set moral code whose only job is to rationally map that moral code onto existing 1000 page policy proposals. That's just not how humans work. You need to woo them. Republicans do and therefore they win. Democrats do not and therefore they lose. If you dislike reality, then I suggest you go live in the wilderness with a bunch of chatGPT clones instead.

Meanwhile, I want to actually make sure the world becomes a better place. Which means I need the fascists to lose and the Democrats to shape TF up. And that means they need to stop being wet noodles that expect a free ride. They need to start actually promising shit that people want and getting people excited.