While I was in Armenia for those 8 months, I saw a very similar situation. Constant power cuts, water supply would turn off at night. The air would be filled with the smell of trash burning all day and night. I would ask people what was going on, and they just stated that this was the way things were, always had been. What completely surprised me was that nobody wanted to take initiative and try to fix things. But this was a former communist nation and is very poor still, people still believe the government would fix things, or that these things were just normal. I was told that a home in the area belonged to a certain politician, and with the constant problems in the area I was surprised that people didn't flock to that politician's house and demand change.
In Armenia there is mass poverty but so much development taking place, even in that area with so many power cuts and problems, huge apartment buildings, high rises would be appearing in an area of what was essentially a shanty town village. Roads that were just nothing but rocks and huge holes. The development and issues told me there was corruption in the space. Someone is profiting heavily from keeping things bad. Money going into their pockets instead of fixing the problems. Would you build massive apartment high rises for an area that can't even hold its current electricity? The more people move there, the more the demand for power is in an already broken space.
One thing I managed to learn is that people expect change to come to them, they assume things will get better. They don't take action and take that change by force, they just accept the negative life they lead and make it normal. To the point where when someone comes in and asks what is going on, they just shrug and say it's how things are. At the same time, this corruption is everywhere to some degree. I can't blame people for some of their actions. Whether they're idle ones or more drastic like leaving the country entirely. These days I'm of the belief that no government is good, no corporation cares about you. It's all lies, deceit and manipulation. The people suffer as a result, there's no such thing as justice in this case.
That is what any left-wing policy produces. Destruction and poverty for the people, while the ruling elite gets richer.
What is happening in my country is a dictatorship that was defeated in the elections and has committed electoral fraud. It has been years of persecution, death of innocents, destruction of the country. Bloodshed only because of the ambition of a tyrannical elite that has weapons in its power. That is why nothing can be done, only peaceful protests with marches, but these marches are repressed by the security organs, imprisoning and killing innocent people. It is a nightmare that has happened many times since the tyranny took power. That is why millions of people have left, creating a migration problem for many countries.
Every country is full of corrupt politicians eager to perpetuate themselves in power, but it is the left that has done the most damage to humanity. It is a constant problem wherever they come to power.
Thank you for commenting. Reading the news I see how Europe is in danger, I hope that the right wing movements, although they are also authoritarian, but I prefer them, will manage to unseat the left wing movements in most of Europe.
I definitely consider myself more "right wing" but in a place like England and many other European nations, there isn't actually anything that makes them different. Most of the talking points are just lies, they're really two sides of the same coin that counter each other's points when it comes to election time, but once elected they just do exactly the things they said they'd stop/reduce/counter.
I stopped voting after the pandemic, when every party was pushing for QR codes to enter public spaces, punishing people who questioned the vaccine (even encouraging firing people for refusing to accept it). That entire odd period in our history opened my eyes to the fact that no government truly cares, it's all for their own personal gain. I have to say that I don't have a particularly positive outlook on the political world, I suspect places will continue to decline.
Travelling definitely shows me a lot of similarities around the world too: mass importing of migrants under the lie of a worker shortage when the agenda is actually maintaining wage suppression to maximise corporate profit, ensuring people stay poor and incapable of growing while those corporations see record revenue each quarter. Basically, everything is bleak as hell right now, but in a way it encourages us to take a step back and focus on simple things like friends and family, enjoying being with those and finding ways to support each other. Nothing quite beats a strong and independent community.