Same situation here in Germany, where companies are worried about attracting skilled foreign workers while right-wing extremist parties are gaining more and more votes.
It’s kind of baffling that the saner elements of these conservative parties simply don’t get that all the really smart people who tend to have disproportionately large positive impacts on their country’s economies simply won’t put up with authoritarian governments, and will straight up leave if push comes to shove. The politicians in question are evidently unable to understand the catastrophic impact that brain drain can have on a country in the medium- to long-term.
My homeland, Portugal, was until 50 years ago governed by the Fascists.
There were maybe 9 extremelly wealthy families all the while the country was crushingly poor with most of the population below the poverty line (we’re talking children walking to school barefoot in the middle of Winters as my mother did levels of poverty).
The country required a Revolution to overthrow Fascism.
Personally all of it tells me all I need to know about just how much the hard right (which nowadays in many places includes a lot of the old “center”-right mainstream parties) and beyond cares about the fate of the rest of their country.
Same situation here in Germany, where companies are worried about attracting skilled foreign workers while right-wing extremist parties are gaining more and more votes.
It’s kind of baffling that the saner elements of these conservative parties simply don’t get that all the really smart people who tend to have disproportionately large positive impacts on their country’s economies simply won’t put up with authoritarian governments, and will straight up leave if push comes to shove. The politicians in question are evidently unable to understand the catastrophic impact that brain drain can have on a country in the medium- to long-term.
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Norway?
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As a German, Komm rüber!
They don’t care. They’re happy with their little fiefdoms, even if all they rule over is mud.
My homeland, Portugal, was until 50 years ago governed by the Fascists.
There were maybe 9 extremelly wealthy families all the while the country was crushingly poor with most of the population below the poverty line (we’re talking children walking to school barefoot in the middle of Winters as my mother did levels of poverty).
The country required a Revolution to overthrow Fascism.
Personally all of it tells me all I need to know about just how much the hard right (which nowadays in many places includes a lot of the old “center”-right mainstream parties) and beyond cares about the fate of the rest of their country.
They don’t care. They aren’t even looking at the small picture, they are busy trying to decide which crayon to eat.
Hey, the marines would be very upset if they heard you badmouthing their favorite flavor.
I think that those people might actually think that what they’re doing is good for the country and that that’s what people want