Oh no! Anyways…

1. Instant gratification
2. Not cool enough for the hot new drug that is instant gratification
3. Instant gratification
4. Give as much instant gratification as possible
5. I don’t know, I am not an expert.

It’s a combination really, naive first time voters that have not experienced what they do or got blinded by their promises. Also mostly people who think that are wealthy enough to profit from voting for them but really are not. Then there are probably a few of the big business owners who actually profit from them.

Realistically, if you look at the FDP agenda, it’s a upper 1% of wealth party that manages to get people that will be worse off with them in the government to vote for them.

That cycle is real indeed. Though I am not quite sure if it’s stupid first time voters or just naive people thinking that they are meant when they mention the economy doing good with them. In either case, I have seen that cycle in action too and I also don’t get why a party for the top 1% gets more than 5% of votes.

Ah… Good old FDP doing FDP things where the holy economy is worth more than the lives of countless people and animals in pursuit of profits. Even seemingly going so far to potentially ruin the global ecosystem for everyone because earning lots of money wasn’t enough and they wanted to earn all the money.

Fortunately by the looks of it they won’t get voted back into a position of power again. Unfortunately however it looks like a different but equally bad (and worse) party will more than replace them.

As far as I can remember the ballot states people first and foremost, only stating party as a somewhat small addition below that person’s name. So it looks a lot like you are voting for individuals rather than the party. Media coverage also didn’t help and they mentioned how it is perceived differently in all other EU countries that got to vote as well.

Where I live (at least when it comes to the EU) We do in fact vote for people over a party. At least that is the understanding on how it works here. As for what can be done: do the vote again for one thing. I am sure that there are other options too. The last thing that should happen is that someone who wasn’t even up for debate at the time to get the job. That was the worst outcome in all regards because now I don’t trust the democratic process there that much anymore knowing that at any moment practically anyone can get that position regardless of any result from the people that make up the EU.

I can’t really tell about that either since I have not read up about the electoral college yet. It’s certainly different. What does grind my gears however is when democratic results get ignored no matter where they happen because reasons. She was not even up for debate for that position when we got our chance to vote and then ended up in that position after the fact.

Indeed, I recently had a discussion about just that with a family relative who is very adamant against wolves but then started complaining about all those beavers and deer over population. You can’t make it up. Is it a good idea to control that wolf population? Probably yes, can that wolf population help with solving other issues? Probably yes.

All you really need to know is that said person failed upwards and then got into it’s current position by a backroom deal that ignored the EU election results.

IMHO very questionable at least, at best not good in that position either.

Realistically a good starting point to read up on could be about admin privileges. Or ring 0 in software. It basically boils down to the fact that anything that is running as root ( or with admin privileges) can read and write to ANY file it wants to. Effectively having full control over the system.

In other words it could be used to do anything they want with your pc. An example of that actually happening is the anti Cheat that genshin impact is using because that was exploited in that way already.