To be honest I'm quite proud how the protests went. More akin to Ghandi's protests than to rioters burning cars.
It's going to be a long struggle but thankfully the groups most supportive of populism and therefore corruption are older (>50).
It's going to be a long struggle but thankfully the groups most supportive of populism and therefore corruption are older (>50).
On the flip side, this might be just the natural shift in people's political views as they get older. I mean, the same argument is made by liberals in the US, forgetting that people simply become more conservative as they are aging.
The leftist klepto mafia party PSD promised things to these people in exchange for their votes. They are screwing up those who work or at least try to make an honest living, those who contribute to the county's GDP and expect their taxpayer money buy infrastructure, hospitals, schools, kindergartens instead of lining politicians' pockets.
Life seems easy when you are young and educated but for old people it is hard to keep up with the pace of technology, even if they are educated. The abrupt transition to capitalism didn't help either. This is a common issue in many countries, not just ex-communist ones. Old people need a safety net and Romania has it broken.
I'm attacking the party that has more members with criminal records than all others combined. An organized criminal gang controls this praty. The president of the Chamber of Deputies who's also the president of this party already has a criminal record for election tampering and is currently under investigation for abuse of power. The president of the Senate is currently under investigation for perjury and aiding the felon. This is without even counting the many members of their parties who have been prosecuted and/or sent to jail.
They miss having things decided for them, they miss having a life long job (which only works because the government plans the economy), they miss news about how everything in Romania is well and getting better and how horrible things outside of Romania are.
But some things are the same. The ruling party (successors of the communist party) won on a message of "foreigners are trying to control Romania" and look at how many foreign sounding names in have in politics (including the current president who is an ethnic German).
What would be the software equivalent of this? disable half the buttons on a page? :P
Disabling half the buttons on a page is an active act of sabotage.
Peaceful protests for software engineers have the problem that in most software companies, if everyone used the age old "you're not allowed to strike" tactic of conspiring to call in sick, most likely the software would continue to work just fine, since everything is automated.
Of course the system would eventually break down, but likely after the employees lost their patience for the protest, by which point the company could have brought in replacements to keep the shop running.
You realize both sides use this argument? It's not that either side is being lied to or paid; some people simply have different viewpoints on issues, as hard as that is to believe.
It's hard to see the difference from a distance, but as a general rule, always suspect the group that is in favor of the government. Even more if the protest is about investigating corruption.
Sorry for the nitpick but it's Gandhi.