It is a bit like the Russians. The Russian majority appears to want a strong man running the place, not to rule themselves. It is a cultural problem that is clearly deeply rooted. They appear incapable of governing themselves.
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” It is a cultural problem that is clearly deeply rooted. They appear incapable of governing themselves.’
The problem’s roots needn’t go back more that several generations.
I lived in Canada during part of the Cold War. We were friends with people who had managed to get out from behind the Iron Curtain and leave Hungary for Canada.
Our Hungarian friends, in turn, had friends who had voluntarily gone back to Hungary, back to communism. Can you imagine that?
The returned Hungarians had found living in a free society, with the possiblity of losing one’s job, was just too frightening. They preferred having no freedom, including the freedom to fail.
Since Hungary had been communist for only about thirty years, their angst could only have gone back that far. Apparently, it doesn’t take much. Imagine how difficult it must be for Russians.