Anne Applebaum on Autocratic Tactics: Putin, Political Participation, and Populism #podcast #russia

if there Endless Lies over and over again eventually you don't know what to believe and you start to say well all politics is garbage you know I'm not going to pay any attention to it and then either I'm not going to participate or I'm just going to vote for the guy who entertains me the most um that's a political tactics it's not an accident it's not that either Putin or Trump or Chavez or Assad who does something similar in Syria it's not that they're unusually dishonest is that they use this as a way of putting people off politics and keeping them out and so what the modern mod autocrats try to do is is persuade people that they really shouldn't get involved in politics because there's nothing to be gained you don't really know what's going on and maybe you'll get in trouble and it's not worth it if you create enough cynicism then you won't have a movement of Brave Democrats like Alexi naly or like the Hong Kong Democrats who seek to create a different system welcome to the new books Network