Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Who are the Least Popular Leaders in Europe?" video.

  1.  @DommTom  The real issue isn't decommissioning nuclear power, it's getting too into bed with the Russian's, especially when there were many red flags that Germany should have diversified its energy sector, that failing is on the government.
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  2. What I always find is that leaders tend to be less popular if they've been in power for some time or if the economic situation isn't good in the country, both of which usually have a negative impact on leaders, regardless of how good they are or what policies they take, they usually end up being a scapegoat for how things are. Still, with decent policies, they can limit the damage to themselves. As for the Italian leader being the most popular, well, she's in the honeymoon phase, once that starts to fade away, she will become a lot less popular unless she delivers a miracle on the economy, which seems highly unlikely, where Italy will return to growth but more or less standard growth, that will be enough to hurt her standing in Italy as time goes on, after all, many leaders tend to be popular for the first 2 years in, especially if from a new party, but then the people will expect solid results and in her case, she got into power because Italians want change, if little or nothing changes in a big way on the economic front, her popularity will likely nose dive, probably in time for the next election.
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  3. True, what usually happens, a party promises a lot before the election, they get into power, the honeymoon phase goes on for about two years, voters start to expect results on the promises made, in most cases they don't deliver or it's watered down and then their popularity starts to go downhill, repeat the cycle and it's more or less what we see in almost every western country. It's easy to understand why, to get into power, you have to lie to the voters, if they don't, the other parties that do will likely get into power because what they are promising sounds a lot more appealing than what the ones that are saying the truth, it's a sad state of affair that they can't get into power unless they BS their way in, and that's the problem with the voters, they don't want the cold hard reality of changes that are needed, they want fairy tales and lies that sounds more appealing, which is basically what governments tell people, even thought they know they can't deliver on it. Basically, it's all about getting into power and worrying about the lies afterwords, from what I can tell, that happens in almost every western country, and the real blame isn't the politicians or governments, it's the people, the public really need to hold governments and parties to account for the lies and promises they made, maybe then they'll get real change that's more favourable to the people, until then, they'll continue to tell the people what they want to hear, not what they can deliver.
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