Why do people keep voting for authoritarian leaders?
I'm just trying to understand. Erdogan in Turkey, Putin in Russia, Orban in Hungary etc... Why do these leaders still get so much support after all they've done? What do they exactly like about them?
Aren't these people seeing a massive drop in their quality of life?
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Well, in Russia, Putin is having his opponents killed/thrown in jail. It's not a democracy, like in NK where Kim have 99.9% of the vote.
Went here to write this.
Source: I've left Russia, where I've been born, after war started. Left there my whole family and all friends.
Must be hard, hope you’re doing ok 👍
Not as hard as for people from Ukraine, so, nothing to worry about.
Putin and his government has been killing and putting their opponents to prison since 2000-s. At the same time they were telling older people, that if they chose anyone from opposition, Russia will return to its darkest ages.
While doing this, they closed or took under their control all indepent media and made it illegal to say something, that doesn't fit their narrative.
And now people wondering why Russians aren't protesting or fighting that regime.
Russians who live in other countries support Putin and vote for politicians who support Putin. Nobody will throw a Russian in jail for protesting against Putin in my country. But few Russians actually do that.
A bigger problem is that most of the people in Russia actually support Putin. It is a democracy, just not a liberal one.