No need to panic. They're burning what remains of their legitimacy for very short-term benefit, although they could easily let them ascend and be incapable of changing anything - thus discrediting them.
Instead, they're so deathly afraid that they are taking down the very system that allows them unchecked power. You simply cannot rule when you have turned 50% of the population against you.
Not so sure about that memory thing. Even when countries with completely rather than mostly fake elections rig them, like Iran, people get mighty upset. And even when regimes successfully put down uprisings, countries remain a powder keg - look at how eastern Europe put down revolts for decades, in your words 'forgotten', but then things just explode in an instant.
Here in Europe, people rationalize every sort of government depredation by saying that "well, it's democratic". You cannot defend it on the merits. It's like a state based on divine right to rule cursing god and proclaiming atheism. Eviscerating your own source of legitimacy, no matter how fraudulently gained, does not end well.
It would be one thing if this scum actually brought something good. I could live with that. But they're making a mess of absolutely everything while also stealing elections. Not exactly sustainable. Hell, normies - the proles in 1984 - can bring down any government tomorrow, by simply going on a general strike. Even if only 30% of people do it, it will paralyze the country and force the government out - see the Kapp Putsch.
No need to panic. They're burning what remains of their legitimacy for very short-term benefit, although they could easily let them ascend and be incapable of changing anything - thus discrediting them.
Instead, they're so deathly afraid that they are taking down the very system that allows them unchecked power. You simply cannot rule when you have turned 50% of the population against you.
Normies have goldfish memories and cognitive dissonance, this probably won't matter much long term.
Not so sure about that memory thing. Even when countries with completely rather than mostly fake elections rig them, like Iran, people get mighty upset. And even when regimes successfully put down uprisings, countries remain a powder keg - look at how eastern Europe put down revolts for decades, in your words 'forgotten', but then things just explode in an instant.
Here in Europe, people rationalize every sort of government depredation by saying that "well, it's democratic". You cannot defend it on the merits. It's like a state based on divine right to rule cursing god and proclaiming atheism. Eviscerating your own source of legitimacy, no matter how fraudulently gained, does not end well.
It would be one thing if this scum actually brought something good. I could live with that. But they're making a mess of absolutely everything while also stealing elections. Not exactly sustainable. Hell, normies - the proles in 1984 - can bring down any government tomorrow, by simply going on a general strike. Even if only 30% of people do it, it will paralyze the country and force the government out - see the Kapp Putsch.