Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Why Hungary Wants Turkey to Join the EU" video.

  1.  @amunra5330  Being elected and keeping the system open and fair are two very different things, Orbán and Putin were elected, but whiles in power, they changed the system to make it much harder to lose power, Hitler more or less did the same thing. In the end, you have to blame the people, if they can't be bothered to keep governments in check, then they get what they deserve, and it's rare for those kinds of governments to not backfire on the people, because these kinds of governments are all about protecting there position of power, even at the expense of their own people, I mean seriously, just look at the policies of Turkey on the central bank and inflation or Putin with the war in Ukraine, or even Orbán in Hungary which inflation is doing far worse than EU norm, when it comes down to it, they are quite happy to throw their own people under a bus to protect there position of power, and it's just a question of how much the people put up with before saying enough is enough.
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  2. The problem is with these authoritarians and dictator like countries, even when they gain any kind of success, it's usually very short term, western countries are very successful because of being open democracies that empower the people to innovate and be creative, they are also far more adaptive when it comes to policies being that if some policies are not popular with the people, they can get voted out. We can see a few examples of that, Turkey with its policies on the central bank which is leading to very high inflation which if they are not careful, is going to sink the country, in western countries, that would never be put up with by the people and a new government would form to correct that, then we have Russia where Putin is hell-bent on war in Ukraine, no matter what the cost is to Russia, then there's China, they were well on the right path of becoming a modern country until the current government got into power and changed tact, without the people having the powers to change the government, the government keeps plodding along on the same bad policies until it starts doing real damage to the country. Hungary is a bit different, being that they are in the EU and limited in what Orbán can get away with, but even there, inflation is far higher than the EU norm, if Hungary wasn't in the EU, things would likely be far worse as there would be no checks and balances on the current government. I sometimes wonder, when will the people in these kinds of countries learn, you only have to look at history to see how bad these kinds of governments are for the people. In any case, these countries are not a real threat to western democracies as long as they stick to the current inflexible system of running with an iron fist, they call it being strong, yes for the elites in power, but it's not that great for everyone else in those countries, either way, if they really want to take the west on, being an open democracy and empowering the people is the best way to do it, in the meantime, the world is dominated by powers that are more open with its people, so let those authoritarians countries play there games, they are only hurting their own interest in the long term.
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