No, I think he’s actually genuine. He’s one of our more progressive politicians and barely made the bar to enter the EP as an independent during last year’s EP elections. I’m honestly glad he made it, he seems like a good egg.
I do vaguely remember reading about some dubious stuff in his family’s history, but can’t find the articles anymore and frankly, other than that his activity was pretty spotless so far.
Notice that my comment was meant as a compliment to him. And a dig to myself for not allowing the belief that this might just be a decent person. That was the joke. That we are almost all conditioned to have a pavlovian level of reaction towards politicians, in which they speak and we doubt them immediately.
I know two people that are members of political parties and they are genuinely two of the most decent people I know. But at the same time, they are not raising ranks within their respective parties. Which are also not the biggest parties to begin with. I don’t doubt that there are decent people that are trying to be decent politicians. I just think that the capital influence and its respective interests don’t usually allow these decent ones to reach actual positions of power and they even get actively placated as a result of their integrity hindering the consolidation of that very same capital influence.
No, I think he’s actually genuine. He’s one of our more progressive politicians and barely made the bar to enter the EP as an independent during last year’s EP elections. I’m honestly glad he made it, he seems like a good egg.
I do vaguely remember reading about some dubious stuff in his family’s history, but can’t find the articles anymore and frankly, other than that his activity was pretty spotless so far.
Notice that my comment was meant as a compliment to him. And a dig to myself for not allowing the belief that this might just be a decent person. That was the joke. That we are almost all conditioned to have a pavlovian level of reaction towards politicians, in which they speak and we doubt them immediately.
I know two people that are members of political parties and they are genuinely two of the most decent people I know. But at the same time, they are not raising ranks within their respective parties. Which are also not the biggest parties to begin with. I don’t doubt that there are decent people that are trying to be decent politicians. I just think that the capital influence and its respective interests don’t usually allow these decent ones to reach actual positions of power and they even get actively placated as a result of their integrity hindering the consolidation of that very same capital influence.