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2024-11-25 07:15:00
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The Călin Georgescu experiment succeeded. He heralds a new world, where social media algorithms are getting smarter and people are getting easier to manipulate.
It is worse than in 2000. Then there was still a majority of the population capable of judging, discerning and defending democracy. Professor Ion Bogdan Lefter told me last night, around 3 o'clock, in the Digi24 studio, that, 24 years ago, he signed an appeal of intellectuals for voting for Ion Iliescu in the 2nd round and that he is ready to do the same gesture of sacrifice and now to rid the country of extremists. I have no doubt there will be 2 weeks of calls and open letters. How I doubt not they will be a heroic uselessness. A romantic attempt to defend an endangered world. Călin Georgescu is a symptom of a disease that we have been living with for a long time. We are only now aware of it.
Sometimes societies have to get seriously ill to hope they will make antibodies to survive. The fact that in Romania there are more than 2 million people willing to vote for a glassy-eyed legionnaire Putinist and another 1.5 million to vote for an anti-Western gallery ultras probably has many explanations, from the anger of some people who feel marginalized in society , up to the level of education or functional illiteracy. What scares me is not Călin Georgescu and George Simion, but my fellow citizens who follow them. A people schooled on TikTok or even born by the network's algorithms expected a Messiah who would “make order”.
A wind of madness is blowing around the world. In Romania, an abandoned and unfinished country, whose inept leaders live in the stratosphere, in luxury jets, many probably see Georgescu's victory as a divine punishment, not understanding that their vote is actually punishing a country that had barely managed to break away from the East and catch a nugget of prosperity from the West.
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