• kent_eh
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    3 months ago

    How? No way 75% of the states would agree.

    By electing sane politicians and not a bunch of weak populists who bend for the loudest rightwingnuts…

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      3 months ago

      Ok. Start with Mississippi.

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      3 months ago

      Yes but this continues to be true. The top level poster implied that at some point is was true, but it is no longer true. It’s never been reasonably possibly in the us and nothing has changed recently to make it meaningfully less possible.

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      Yeah, that isn’t going to work, because either

      1. !>25% of your population doesn’t believe women have that right

      or

      1. Your countries existing laws give too much voting power to a minority
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        No, they’re not. Populism as a whole is a horrible political strategy which benefits only a few members of the political class.

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          3 months ago

          Populism is literally focusing on the masses. Now elitists use it as a pejorative to refer to fascists when fascists are also elitist with faux populist rhetoric.

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            No, populism is a focus on electorally beneficial short term goals. Has been so since always. Political decisions taken with the intent and plan of benefitting the populous are simply called a “good political administration”.

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              No, populism is a focus on electorally beneficial short term goals.

              I mean I’ve heard people accuse Bernie of being a populist but I don’t think he’s focused on short term goals. Are they using the term wrong?

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                Quite clearly, yes. Bernie may rely on populism more than a hardline socialist, but as a relative metric against his rivals, he’s not even close to a populist.

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              Political decisions taken with the intent and plan of benefitting the populous are simply called a “good political administration”.

              That’s populism.

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        Populists just tell you what you want to hear so they get power. There’s no intention to follow through.

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        Populism is simply a political strategy where you appeal to the ‘common voter.’ It is neither good nor bad.

        Pro-Union efforts are populist. So are most socialist movements.

        The Nazis also ran on a populist campaign. As is Trump right now.

        Stating a movement is populist is an in-the-moment observation. I would argue that trying to sort ‘true populists’ who are actually trying to help their supporter base from ‘faux-populists’ fundamentally misuses the term, which is simply noting who the politician is trying to appeal to.