“Prosperous” is when your citizens leave in droves to do menial work in England and Germany but magic line goes up. “Democratic” is when your government cares more about hosting NATO (and placing fines on critics) and oppressing gay people than getting your needs met.
The hilarious thing is that this isn’t a Cold War map but one of gay marriage approval (if the United Germany and split Czechoslovakia didn’t tip you off).
Critical support to French Rose Twitter Guy who lives rent-free in the heads of shitlibs and NAFO-heads
https://twitter.com/szabadsag1956/status/1689339164221698050?s=46
Poland and Hungary are in the EU and they’re pretty openly authoritarian. It’s not even something new. Fidesz had over 40% of the vote share since 2002 and won a supermajority in 2010. PiS first got in power in 2005 with the failure of the Socdems to deliver anything but neoliberalism.
All endorsed by the EU and International community, yet these countries elected rabidly reactionary governments who promised to protect them from the EU