My initial thought is, this is a subtle indicator of the capital class buying into the regime’s plans to transition from “liberal democracy” to just straight up naked oligarchy
Edit: My second thought is, why not then just lie about the numbers? What does it fucking matter if they’re dropping the veneer of democracy anyways?
Well, normalization is a big part of how these things sometimes happen, and the crisis isn’t really acute enough for them to be able to swing an extremely drastic shift without getting country-wide riots and some more Luigis.
My initial thought is, this is a subtle indicator of the capital class buying into the regime’s plans to transition from “liberal democracy” to just straight up naked oligarchy
Edit: My second thought is, why not then just lie about the numbers? What does it fucking matter if they’re dropping the veneer of democracy anyways?
Well, normalization is a big part of how these things sometimes happen, and the crisis isn’t really acute enough for them to be able to swing an extremely drastic shift without getting country-wide riots and some more Luigis.