All empires have their problems, and they all choose their road

Kimmo Huosionmaa

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About the future of the Europe is a road, what every culture and empire have done. That is the road of the Roman empire and all other empires on the earth. All empires have risen because people needed protection against other people, but after that, the empires have fallen by internal disorders. That is the road for the European Union, if something will not be done soon. The reason why all empires have fallen is very clear. There have been the forces, who thought that all nations must be independent. But those people have another reason for drive independence in their areas, and that is not very altruistic. The reason for those independence movements is actually that those people can be great leaders in the small countries. And those populist movement leaders might only want good work in the parliament. And that kind of people caused the collapse of the empire. Every empire has met their fate in the situation, where people have bored about the government of their homelands. In the authoritarian state,  people lost their trust in authorities.


And that stated the rebel against the central government like in the Russian in 1917. The people were bored for the tsar, and after that, they started to fear the leader of the Russian empire, and that’s why they started the open rebellion against that man, who was the absolute dictator. The authoritarian and strong leadership of the state seem very good way to restore law and order to the state. But there is one little risk in that philosophy. Those leaders will sometimes become very brutal against their people. When we are talking about the restoring the law and the order, normally people think that means riots and violence.


Modern police forces have created the situation where violence is concrete but the violent person wants to save his life. And of course, the weapon what is used in that action is effective only in the short range. Nobody ever thought that somebody will open the fire in the middle of the street with the assault rifle and after that explodes himself. This kind of violence is the new element for police. But when we are talking about strong leadership we must understand that those strong leaders might be first very democratic. Those laws what allows the authoritarian way to use power are made to protecting the state. They were necessary for young states, what was not able to stabilize their governmental power and position for their governmental institutions.



 But if those laws will stay, they can give power to undemocratic advantage for that state. And we must realize that no leader lives forever. When the person in the head of the state changes the next owner of that position is not so democratic than his predictor. That is what we have seen in the history. The democracy based need for the strong leadership has changed for the nightmare like in many young states have done. The leaders who were very charismatic leaders for the people were changed as populistic and authoritative leaders, who crush the opposition without mercy.  That kind of advantage will cause fear against the government, and the result could be devastating for the empire. That happened in the Roman Empire and the last empire what faced that truth is the Soviet Union what collapsed because people feared to go home after protests.



That caused the snowball effect, where more and more people came to the streets, and then the Soviet government was unable to handle that situation. And the thing what grown that effect was fear, because the history of the Soviet and Russian government showed to the people, that they will go in very big trouble if they have taken part of the riots, what we're all demonstrations, what were focused against the central government of the Soviet Union. And they remember the promises what the Soviet authorities had made, and what they had broken.  And that is the problem with strong leaders. They afraid the people, and sometimes the fear is too strong, and people will start to rebel. This is the danger for an authoritative government.

What is the reason for crises of European Union?

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

The European Union is in crises, and the reason for this is populist movement what has been grown in the political field. The reason for the success of those movements has caused because of the freshness of those movements. They all have been quite new parties, and those movements have given new choice for people when they must elect their candidate to the parliament. And why those new movements have got this success. Why old fashion political leaders talked to religious people. Those people were easy to account, and they were homogenize group. That's why the promises were easy to focus to those people who visited in the church.


Religion is not so big thing to younger people, and that's why young voters are separated from old fashion politics. New political movements offer a new choice for the people, and those movements promise some concrete things to the people of nations. Offer what they give is security. Those movements promise that if the European Union builds a wall between it and another world, the people of the union will be safe from terrorists. They forget that if EU builds a wall around it, the cause of that action will be same, what happened to the Roman Empire when it built the wall of Hadrian. Enemies of Rome just escaped another side of the wall, and they could continue their actions against Rome, and that caused as it part of the collapse of the empire.


Why those populistic movements are so popular? They can speak to people, and tell them, what they want to hear. When Greece went to the crisis, the politicians told people, that if there is not the Union, they won't have to pay that money to Greece, and of course, the question was always a big money. Those politicians said, that if that Union will be broke, the people would get something new, like growing social security and more jobs in frontier guards. But when we are talking about medias relationship to politics, we must realize that those new movements are of course something strange in the political field.


New political parties are always defamed by media because actors of the media have already contacts with old political parties. And new actors are a good target for trolling. But why new political movements have risen so fast, even they have not had so-called "official" medias support. The reason is that they use Internet-marketing to collect votes, and basic social media and homepages are very effective tool for marketing platform. That environment can give very much volume to low price marketing. The argument against the new party is sometimes, that they have the only couple of percent supporters, and if someone will give his or her vote to that movement, will the vote get lost.


And new parties have very low marketing budgets if they compile with old political parties. But Internet marketing gives those new parties new channel to their thoughts to mind of the people. And this is the new way to make politics. Today politics must be very careful, what they write on Facebook and other social media. And the social media causes a situation, where the political actor must always be in interplay with people. And that will be a new challenge to democracy. It's not enough that politic leader meets people in some market square. In the Internet politician have a change to meet masses of the people.


This is a question of political culture. Politician must meet masses to get votes in the election day, and the only need is to put people mind that they give that particular number in the ballot. But social media is a very dangerous place for political actors, because there politicians must be very scarp. If they will give answers in drunk that might destroy their career in political field immediately. And if they have something to hide, those things might rise up in Facebook and other social media.

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