TheInsaneC t1_jb1q1re wrote on March 5, 2023 at 7:37 PM

Reply to comment by code_archeologist in Dozens of Israeli reserve pilots ditch drill to protest judicial overhaul by Dirty_Quesadilla

That's his problem, the professional military and the high tech entrepreneurs (and everyone else who's keeping this country running) aren't buying his lies about the legal "reform". His power comes from poor uneducated peripherals who he will keep poor and uneducated so they'll keep supporting him, and his partners are settlers and haredim. but these can't run a country by themselves.

SoItWasYouAllAlong t1_jb2z7xm wrote on March 6, 2023 at 1:08 AM

>His power comes from poor uneducated peripherals

Uhm... Israel being a democratic country, his power comes from the popular majority, no?

I am unfamiliar with the specific situation. So your objections to the government may have solid grounds. However, "we are more educated" and "they don't know what's best for them" are the standard elitist cliches, regularly used in attempt to marginalize the popular majority.

Drakonx1 t1_jb30jfc wrote on March 6, 2023 at 1:19 AM

The way governing coalitions are formed in the Knesset is wild. Read up on it and you'll wonder how they ever get anything done, but no he and his party didn't get anything close to a popular majority.

arielsosa t1_jb54csn wrote on March 6, 2023 at 2:41 PM

But we all know ignorance make you more easily manipulable. Having a "popular majority" (which is also not the case in this highly fractured parlamentarian country) does not gives anyone the right to break the 3-powers balance, which is what he is doing. So, using voters' support as a shield from his own legal problems is not democratic at all.

Even if he had +50% of the population on his side (which he doesn't), it would be anti-democratic to diminish the institutions and processes that make democracy possible.