Social psychology: why did people vote for the SMER party?
In this article, I will try to evaluate the results of the elections.Information known from the media
First, I will briefly summarize the information that has already been mentioned in the media, such as the options for forming a government. One option is the so-called democratic government formed by the PS, Hlas, KDH, and Saska parties.The second option, if the Hlas party were to join the Smer party, would be a government consisting of Smer, Hlas, and SNS. The SNS party has only one MP, and the other MPs for the party are from other smaller parties that Andrej Danko accepted by merging them under his wing. For this reason, the stability of this government would be questionable in terms of a parliamentary majority if the SNS parliamentary group were not united. Therefore, it would be beneficial for Fico to also include the fourth political party, KDH, in the government.
The chairman of Hlas, Pellegrini, does not have it easy, because several of his MPs sympathize more with Fico than with the PS party and other democratic parties, and he risks some MPs leaving his parliamentary club.
Overall assessment of the elections. Did they turn out badly or well?
Journalists mostly sympathize with Progressive Slovakia. They, of course, expressed a huge amount of frustration and were not satisfied with the election results because they expected PS to win. In fact, the elections turned out the best they could, and even better than the polls. The government can be formed without Smer, SNS and OLANO, which is a positive surprise. It is also positive that the PS party did not win the elections. This far-left party certainly belongs in politics, but it would not be good if it had too strong a negotiating position, as there are extremist tendencies in this political party as well.The chief ecologist for the PS party is Michal Wiezik, whom I know very well. He is the same extremist as the Letzte Generation movement, which consists of people who block traffic, throw themselves under car wheels, and glue themselves to the asphalt. It's not that this person directly belongs to this movement, nor is it true that he has directly expressed sympathy for it, but his extremist views and degree of extremism are the same as those of Letzte Generation. It's sad that such a person has even become an associate professor. And he is not the only associate professor who has lost his mind; he also has competition in Eduard Chmelár, who, in turn, belongs to the extreme right.
It is also extremely naive to think that the "good" and "moderate" people in the PS party will curb and restrain the ecological extremists in the party from their extremist tendencies. We already have very rich experience with the OĽANO and SAS parties, that this was not the case at all. In the SAS parliamentary club, the crazy ecological extremist Anna Zemanová was a passionate collaborator of the EU fund oligarch Šíbl, she was in charge of ecology in the party and no one restrained her in her extremism. She dictated to the entire parliamentary club how to vote on the topic of ecology and everyone in SAS, including Sulík, obeyed her without discussion. Anna Zemanová has an opinion, the extreme fighter for animal rights is convinced that animals should be protected more than humans.
In the OĽANO parliamentary club, left-wing ecological extremism was represented by MP Jaromír Šíbl. And the OĽANO parliamentary club obeyed him to the letter, and no one opposed him. The OĽANO parliamentary club, which we anti-corruption activists informed in detail, did not even mind that MP Šíbl was a long-time vice-chairman of the fake environmental association BROZ, which is in fact a very well-developed organized corruption group. This association received 80 million euros in EU fund subsidies co-financed by the state at 38%. Furthermore, it should be noted that 90 to 95% of these subsidies are simply stolen, and only 5 to 10 percent actually goes to nature protection, and as an anti-corruption activist, I also have evidence of this. If the media released it, people would protest in the streets of Bratislava as they did when the Gorila case was uncovered. The parliamentary club, without discussion, obeyed MP Šíbl to the letter on ecological issues, even though we informed the entire OĽANO parliamentary club about this conflict of interest.
So friends, don't be naive and don't think it will be different in the PS party. You can be sure that the PS party's parliamentary club will obey the madman Wiezik's every word on how to vote on environmental issues.
Unlike left-wing journalists, I don't cry that the PS party didn't win the elections, because I am well aware of how dangerous a political party it is, even though I have liberal views.
Unlike other people, I can look at things with perspective and objectivity. So I don't see a big difference in the danger between left-wing ecological extremism and right-wing extremism. For me, extremists Michal Wiezik and Milan Mazurek are equally dangerous.
And besides, Wiezik may not be the only environmental extremist in the party. There are more of them there.
Igor Matovič and Eduard Heger were also informed in detail about this insane corruption of former MP Šíbl, and yet they did not act. I also informed the media about this insane corruption, but they decided to remain silent. Later I understood why. The BROZ association is one of the most sophisticated organized criminal groups in Slovakia, which also bribes the media. One employee of an unnamed left-wing liberal investigative daily even admitted to me how the BROZ association goes to bribe the editorial office to keep silent about their corruption and to deliberately spread disinformation in favor of corrupt groups in the field of ecology. However, I promised to keep her name a secret, but I am willing to reveal her name in a private message or via email.
The media manipulates public opinion in an incredible way and they don't mind at all that hundreds of millions are just being stolen.
But the scoundrel journalists are getting their karma back. Let them eat what they have cooked. I saw several journalists crying over the fact that Matovič got into parliament. Well, Matovič would not have gotten into parliament if the media had published information about Šíbl, because then Matovič would have lost his reputation as an anti-corruption politician, because he could not deal with Šíbl.
The PS party is overdoing it with extremism: an extreme feminist program
The proposal to amend the Criminal Code on active consent in sexual intercourse has been approved in only five Western countries. However, the PS party has this topic in its program. The PS party would probably like to recycle Kolíková's proposal, which, thank God, did not pass in parliament. The term "active consent" was not further defined, which in practice would mean that Slovakia would have the strictest law of its kind in the world and prosecutors could interpret it in bizarre ways. Christian conservatives would exceptionally find common ground with the PS on this issue – Catholics welcome any law that restricts sex, because many people with looser relationships will be afraid to engage in sexual intercourse due to fears of false accusation.Former Minister Kolíková submitted her bill only after a discussion with feminist organizations, but she forgot to ask serious experts what they thought about her crazy proposal. I do not expect greater expertise from the PS.
Many MPs don't even know what they are voting on. Kolíková's proposal completely escaped major media attention. I drew the MPs' attention to it at the last minute and luckily they listened.
So this is another reason why we should not be sad that the PS party did not win the elections.
But beware. This is by no means the only bold, provocative feminist proposal of the PS party. There are other proposals in the party's program that make me very concerned whether we would find at least 3 Western countries where there is a similar legislative regulation, but I do not want to discuss other complex topics here.
It must be objectively admitted that the PS party is really overdoing it with extremism and thus unnecessarily contributes to the division and polarization of society.
Why wasn't the PS party first?
The chairman of PS, Šimečka, may have naively believed that ecological extremists in the party would bring him election results. He was wrong. He was very wrong. If he had thrown the eco-fascists out of the PS party, the results of the PS party would have been better.The campaign of rival political parties seems to have had its effect.
A side note: By the way, just as a matter of interest, the PS party gained the highest percentage of voters from abroad. However, votes from abroad are the easiest to fake .
There are also disinformation hoaxes that scare people with liberal topics. Among the most successful hoaxes is the claim that the Istanbul Convention is not about helping abused women, but rather some mysterious back door for gender ideology. I have read the entire Istanbul Convention and found no elements of hidden gender ideology there.
Another popular hoax is the existence of a political movement that wants to impose 72 genders, that you can choose one of 72 genders on your ID card, and so on. If you google something on this topic, it is indeed possible to find something on this topic, although it is more about transgender terminology than genders. However, there is not a single political or lobbying movement that would in any way try to promote 72 genders, and I do not expect that from the PS party either.
Just as a matter of interest, I read somewhere that several Western countries are abolishing gender transitions for children, for example in Norway, which is also in line with the expert consensus. It is therefore a myth that in liberal Western countries, children are taught in schools to choose their gender, which is also clearly successful disinformation.
Nature conservation has proven to be an extremely important topic. The SNS party is proof of this.
For half of the SNS MPs, nature conservation and the countryside are the highest priority.Many Bratislava journalists and analysts cannot understand that Slovakia is not just Bratislava and that the countryside lives in a different world of thought than Bratislava, with different worries and needs.
The elections really showed that nature protection is a priority for people from the countryside, and this is mainly seen in who they voted for as MPs in the SNS party. Some extremely left-wing journalists mocked the issue of bears, saying that desperate politicians had no other topics for their election campaign, so they invented an artificial, non-existent problem with overpopulated bears. However, such journalists were very wrong, and after these elections, they themselves certainly changed their minds.
If bears were running around the Bratislava forests, their laughter would quickly fade.
The head of the bear intervention team says that the danger of bears concerns about 10% of municipalities, and that is already a significant voter base.
People have made it clear that they do not agree with the crazy and extreme policies of Ján Budaj. Such insane experiments as Ján Budaj did with national parks have not been done in any other country.
Given that Ján Budaj was directly managed by the organized criminal group BROZ, which bribes the media, public opinion was drastically manipulated by the media, which wrote only positively about Budaj, claiming that all regions were satisfied with him and that he "protects" nature. However, the reality is that tension in the countryside is enormous.
On the one hand, left-wing Bratislava journalists want us to be very similar to the West, but on the other hand, they don't know how things work in the West, how much money, for example, Switzerland or Austria pours into regions and the countryside, and how high a priority the countryside is for the politicians of these countries.
Also, we should not condemn people who voted for the SNS party. By far, not all of them are desolates or anti-vaxxers. For people for whom the countryside and nature protection are the highest priority, unfortunately, there was nothing else left but to vote for the SNS. Many people perceive the SNS as a lesser evil, as the situation with national parks is extremely serious and tense, although the media image is far from reality. After Budaj's and Chrenko's experiments, national parks are literally fighting for survival, and we cannot blame people who have a love for nature as their highest priority for voting for the SNS.
We cannot blame people for voting for the SNS, because Ján Budaj had state secretaries who were as radical extremists as the Last Generation. Of course, such extremism will cause enormous tension in the regions affected by the national parks. Do not expect people from the regions to be satisfied.
The SNS party also includes the Patriot party, or rather Miroslav Radačovský, who, for example, represents the moderate wing, is not an admirer of Putin, and has expressed a positive opinion on the COVID vaccine.
The SNS party has shown that ecology is not as marginal a topic as Bratislava journalists have portrayed it. The SNS is a huge warning finger for democratic parties to do politics more regionally and listen to the problems of regions and the countryside. For the PS party, the SNS is a clear warning finger that if they kick ecological extremists out of the party, it will increase the party's preferences.
The success of the Smer and Hlas parties in the elections was also due to good regional policy. The Smer and Hlas parties have shown not only in words but also in deeds by voting on laws that they reject left-wing extremist experiments with national parks, which people from the regions do not agree with.
Eduard Heger also supported Budaj as much as he could. Heger naively believed that if he tested the patience of people in the regions, people would vote for him and admire him for it. He was very wrong. He did not get into parliament. He did not even get 3 percent, so his party will not get a cent from the state. Heger paid the price for ignoring these problems.
The Sme rodina party did not get into parliament.
Journalists have never hidden the fact that they declared war on this political party, and this was also reflected in the election results. We also see double standards in the media. The media did not consider it cronyism when Andrej Kiska misused the state air force for private purposes between Bratislava and Poprad. On the other hand, the media considered hospitalization in Kollár's hospital after a car accident to be cronyism.On the one hand, I sent the media direct evidence of how hundreds of millions of euros are being stolen for the supposed protection of nature, and they remained silent on this matter. On the other hand, the media very promptly published compromising materials on Kollár from the untrustworthy mobster Rajecký.
The aim of the media is not to inform but to propagate and manipulate public opinion. If Denník N or Aktuality found out that the PS party had stolen even a billion EUR, I am sure they would keep silent about it. Censorship is imposed on the corruption scandals of the PS party in selected media.
The media inappropriately engaged in the pre-election campaign and paid too much attention to women funded by Zoroslav Kollár.
The pre-election campaign belongs to politicians, not the media.
The media behave more like PR marketing agencies for political parties than they do to inform objectively.
However, it should be noted that such media campaigns are not always successful.
What would happen if Fico came to power?
At the international level, Slovakia would be considered a black hole in Europe. Aid to Ukraine could be weakened by vetoing various European Union proposals.I don't have to repeat the information already known to the media, such as Fico's vendetta.
Perhaps the situation at the Ministry of the Environment and the State Nature Conservation will improve, at least partially. However, it is one thing to promise something before the elections, and another to manage difficult reforms. Perhaps for the first time in history, the Minister of the Environment will be an educated expert in forest ecosystems.
The decimated State Nature Protection needs major personnel changes to cleanse itself of left-wing extremism.
Fico would certainly face unpleasant and unpopular reforms and cuts, as Slovakia is up to its ears in debt.
This will certainly reduce his preferences.
The PS party will at least learn a little about the political craft, gain experience when it comes to how things work in parliament.
I do not expect to leave NATO and the EU.
If Fico is in power, he will not have as much time for political marketing and therefore his preferences will fall.
Let's not forget that Robert Fico is evil and a person with extremely damaged karma. His hateful attitude towards Ukraine, his pandering to Putin, during the COVID pandemic he was the only opposition politician in the whole of Europe to campaign on COVID conspiracies, he ran an anti-vax campaign, and maliciously profited from the unpopular measures that all countries around the world, including Hungary and Russia, the mafia state, were introducing.
Being in power in these difficult times is a punishment, not a reward, so to be honest, there is not much to envy Fico for.
The cultural wars and various populist anti-LGBT laws are quite questionable. It is questionable how the Hlas party or KDH will behave in the government and in parliament.