If you speak calmly in this country, you will not be noticed.
If you weigh your words, don't raise your voice, restrain your anger...
They don't call you strong. They call you soft.
But if you shout
If you wave your finger, if you put your fist on the podium...
Then they will see you.
“One of us,” they say.
Because it is not a matter of reason.
It's a matter of feeling.
Our politics is largely based on emotions.
Anger, resentment, a sense of injustice.
There is an impulsive electorate that is driven by instant reactions.
Don't look for logic; shouting, even swearing at your interlocutor, soothes.
That's why a politician who shouts on behalf of the masses gets a response.
Just like the fans who relax by cursing and shouting at the game; it is good to accompany and applaud their leaders.
But it is not just politics.
We are the children of a culture that does not calm down when their parents get angry; a culture that frightens by shouting, not by silence; a culture that establishes authority by raising its voice.
We learned at home to think that those who shout are strong and those who remain silent are weak.
Then we grew up, went to the polls and chose the familiar.
We have adopted it.
A shouting politician first touches anger.
Anger is fast; it does not like to think.
When a person gets tired, he wants someone to shout for him.
“With the feeling that ”he says what I cannot say", he leaves everything that has accumulated to that voice.
The responsibility goes with it.
The shouting politician also sells a sense of power.
Real power? Debatable.
But it feels that way.
A loud voice is mistaken for stability.
Crowds are not a silent force,
“He hears the tone that says ”I am in control".
In this picture, compromise is weakness.
Calmness is seen as a step back.
Shouting is clear. It shows a side, an enemy, a target for a fight.
Fear and anger create an unquestioning but loyal audience.
Shouting politicians often do not produce solutions.
But it produces emotion.
And anger spreads much faster than resolution.
Social media has accelerated this.
A calm text disappears.
A moment of shouting, a harsh outburst, an insult reaches everywhere in seconds.
Even algorithms love to shout.
Because we love.
But is this love lasting?
It's not.
Shouting politics makes people tired.
Because anger always wants more.
At some point shouting is not enough.
There is sound but no words.
Why do we love the shouter but have no patience to listen to the thinker?
Perhaps the answer is simple.
Listening is difficult.
Thinking disturbs.
Shouting is familiar.
It is a language we have known since childhood.
But let's go on knowing this;
Shouting passes.
That momentary sense of power fades.
And what remains is the price of never having learned to think.