In Nepal this week, democracy collapsed in a haze of fire and humiliation. The finance minister was stripped and chased into a river. The prime minister resigned. A former first lady died in her burning home. Parliament itself went up in flames.
At first it looks like faraway chaos. But look again. It is tomorrow’s headline in any country where democracy has rotted into a racket.
Nepal’s rulers thought they could silence dissent by banning social media. Instead they gave young people the last straw. Generation Z, already living without jobs or trust in politics, turned a ban on TikTok into a revolt against theft and betrayal.
This is not a Nepali story alone. Europe should take notice.
In Italy, Greece, Hungary, Romania, France, Bulgaria , and beyond, the same pattern festers. Corrupted politicians enrich themselves while young people scrape by. Corruption is explained away as tradition. Nepotism is disguised as competence. Year after year, leaders promise renewal while quietly looting the future.
But young people are not fooled. They see it all. And they are asking out loud, every night on TikTok across European countries: When are we going to wake up?
The lesson from Kathmandu is simple. When faith in democracy finally snaps, it snaps violently. It does not whisper. It roars. It burns palaces. It strips ministers naked. It turns symbols of power into ash.
Europe still has time. But not much. Either its leaders choose reform—real accountability, fairness, opportunity—or its youth will choose rebellion.
Democracy is not dying in Nepal alone. It is dying anywhere leaders treat it like a license to steal and apparently is everywhere in the world.
