[CountSessine]

So clearly some people didn't hate them? In fact, maybe the majority?

[Izikiel43]

I mean, if the politician is the one feeding you through food and cash handouts, since there are no private sector jobs, only public ones, and your education is shit, would you vote against them?

Basically, the majority is poor, can't get out of poverty (we are talking 2/3 generations of being poor at least), so they don't bite the hand that feeds them.

Hate has nothing to do with it, just raw pragmatism.

[hutzlibu]

Ah well, in our modern democracies I would say, it is very much possible, that the majority of people hates the elected politicians.

How is that possible?

Well, first of, not everyone has voting rights.

Second, many do not vote because they hate all politicians.

Third, even people who do vote, can hate the person they vote, but they see them as the smaller evil to the OTHER guy they even hate more.

Forth, during the vote the voter believed the promises and was disappointed to have them broken again, after election, which is when the hate returns.

So all in all, plenty of possibilities to have hated leaders voted in.

Having said that - hating is easy.

But transforming a corrupt, but nationalist society is hard.

[s_Hogg]

Possiy not, in a system where voting is non-compulsory! It's compulsory where I live and one of those idiots simply couldn't win as a consequence. Democracy is something you do, not something you have.