I don’t know in which country it works like that.
I only have an insight in Hungary’s elections. There, from time to time there is a genuinely good candidate, while most of them are garbage. E.g. during the last election, the main opposition figure was one who never had any scandal on his tab before, and he was actually coming from the labor market - he actually did have an insight into reality, unlike the rest of our politicians who have never done any real work before, they were just politicians all their lives.
Guess whom the country voted for. They voted for this far-right mafia regime, and the outcome was the greatest majority that they have ever achieved.
And the reason for this has two components:
- Education. Education in that shithole country was never great - far from it. But when this mafia regime was elected in 2010, they deliberately started to dismantle it. And at the same time they have been pushing their stupid propaganda on full blast through all the channels they have plus what they acquired. And people are crazy stupid. They believe the propaganda. They lack the ability to think even just one step ahead. They fail to detect the bullshit in the propaganda, and that’s really a very low bar.
- Being a moron. Throughout these many years, the regime has acquired a considerable number of companies - and masses of employees with it. From there it’s simple: any one of them, who doesn’t vote for these shitheads, loses their job. And for these fools, their shitty job is worth more than the long term improvement of their and everyone else’s lives.
Because of these two factors, the sole candidate in so many years, the one who finally showed a pure track record while having a very reasonable agenda, collected the least amount of votes.
This had nothing to do with authenticity or cynicism.
I don’t think it’s clickbait at all. He’s in real danger of being silenced. With this latest project he reached into a massive wasp nest for sure, but I admire his efforts to speak up in cases like this.
And I haven’t found any bias in his content in general. He’s pretty transparent about his methodologies.