yes, take for example taxing the rich. majority of people want it, most politicians wont even touch the subject. at best they will lie about it and then not even try.
there are many many other issues like this, just took the low hanging example.
Because I think the majority of people are easy to corrupt, it takes exceptional people to resist the temptation of an easy life for you and your relatives.
The original meaning is opposing the people with the elite, but it has slid to include the demagogy (telling people what they want to hear rather than the truth) to please the targeted people.
The definition from the comment above includes left wing and right wing populist main demagogy subjects. Although there may be a difference between European and American political culture on this, I am not certain.
It is not specific to right wing, left leaning newspapers use it this way too, it has become normal politics vocabulary. I think that’s left leaning: https://jacobin.com/2024/03/left-populists-working-class-voters.
Populism is basically about simple solutions for complicated problems, and blaming every problem on a certain group of people.
From the right, the most prominent example is immigrants, while from the left, it’s mostly rich people.
well not all but most of our societal problems comes from their decisions, so i get it.
yeah, immigrants really are destroying our planet.
i think your joke went over their heads
Seems like it
Or those problems come from us and they just represent our own flaws, like a good representative democracy should do.
except its not really us being represented up there. we just choose the lesser evil they put up to us dont we?
what i mean is that its not a good representative democracy
Is the majority of your country really better than its representation?
yes, take for example taxing the rich. majority of people want it, most politicians wont even touch the subject. at best they will lie about it and then not even try.
there are many many other issues like this, just took the low hanging example.
I am not sure the majority of the country, if they were put in the same position of power, would not do the same.
why
Because I think the majority of people are easy to corrupt, it takes exceptional people to resist the temptation of an easy life for you and your relatives.
Centrists just blame wealthy immigrants!
Centrists blame everyone for not understanding all the complicated problems.
“You see, it’s a spectrum. Yes I’m a fascist, but I’m an equal opportunities fascist.”
I blame society.
That’s not what I read in the dictionary. Is that one of those things that the right twisted to mean something else, or…?
No it’s just something the above idiot made up.
Good to know.
The original meaning is opposing the people with the elite, but it has slid to include the demagogy (telling people what they want to hear rather than the truth) to please the targeted people.
The definition from the comment above includes left wing and right wing populist main demagogy subjects. Although there may be a difference between European and American political culture on this, I am not certain.
It is not specific to right wing, left leaning newspapers use it this way too, it has become normal politics vocabulary. I think that’s left leaning: https://jacobin.com/2024/03/left-populists-working-class-voters.