This is why my dad left Bangladesh in 1989. Over the years he developed hope that maybe things had turned around. For awhile, the government wasn’t quite so corrupt and GDP was growing at a fast clip. Then the people overthrew the government and now who knows. I could see that he was upset about having believed for the moment in the country getting better.

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churchill 3 days ago | parent [-]

I've been through your comment history and I can relate. If you're highly placed enough as an elite, you can form a counter-elite and stage a change of government.

But, in most cases, if you have portable, in-demand skills, it's more reasonable to decamp to a better team than try to fix a failing one. The ones with enough proximity to make any change are usually co-opted, driven into exile, threatened into compliance, or straight-up murdered.

Based on what I read about her and the Awami League, I think removing Hasina will be a net-positive for Bangladesh. Yunus is a dyed-in-the-wool capitalist and widely-respected, and if they can keep AL out of power, and pacify any extremists, I think Bangladesh will quickly continue growing.

	▲	rayiner 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Awami League started as a socialist party, but had become pretty neo-liberal by the 2010s. The uprising ended up with Yunus in power, but the students had no real ideology. And Yunus id a smart guy who has no skill as a leader. That’s created a power vacuum that will be filled by Islamists, who Hasina had banned. The opposition party, BNP, definitely doesn’t have a majority, and they can’t win a fair election without the Islamists.