Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Could Israel’s crisis lead to civil war - expert explains" video.
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@EMS It isn't cynical, it's reality. Very much the same as is happening in France right now. Very similar to controversial laws that pass in every western nation. It's an established play.
You want to believe that democracy means you have power all of the time, and that protests have meaning. But they don't. Democracy means you have a voice once every electoral cycle to vote for who you think might be a good representative. If you're wrong you have to wait.
Yes, when representatives take their jobs as representatives seriously protests can change a mind. But only because those minds are actively trying to listen to the people and always were, whilst they also felt free from other pressures to be able to change their minds. Representatives whom feel they know better than the people, &/or representatives whom have other pressures on their decisions don't listen to protest and it's then, a waste of everyone's time. It's when protests turn to violence and riot, because elements of the protest think they're more powerful than reality and they get frustrated they aren't being listened to.
Bibi both believes he knows better, and has other pressures on him. Not least of all self preservation. He's already passed a law that prevents the courts from kicking him out of office when he's found guilty. Now he's trying to rig the game so he isn't found guilty in the first place. That's the ultimate goal here, and he's just told his coalition partners a story on what they can do with those powers. It's self preservation first for Bibi and all the protests in the world won't stop self preservation.
He realistically just had to wait for the protesters and strikers to run out of money and be forced to go back to work out of necessity. Then he can ram the laws through fast and quietly. That's reality.
Any negotiation he actually engages in will be for damage control only. Any concessions he makes will be axillary in nature. He won't compromise on the core pieces that benefit him personally staying in office. He's a criminal actor running riot with a countries political system.
As for how he got back into power. He wasn't voted back in. He made deals with multiple other parties to secure enough seats to get himself back in. He did that too for self preservation, because from opposition he goes to jail.
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