#populism — Public Fediverse posts
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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
-- H. L. Mencken⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HLMencken #Politics #Populism #Stupidity
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico
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Hypocrisy is a virtue
(almost all western leaders)
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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
-- H. L. Mencken⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HLMencken #Politics #Populism #Stupidity
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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"...nationalist populists...are good at raging at how things are, but incapable of making them better."
Agreed, but this is not the question. The question is why people vote for them anyway?
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Making & #BreakingPoints: #Populism, New #Media & More | The #WeeklyShow with #JonStewart #yt
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The Bizarre Debate Over Europe’s Air Conditioning (/Prof Gio | Giordano Scarciotti)
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A new rival is forcing Italy’s Meloni back to her far-right roots.
The prime minister has toughened her rhetoric on migration as Roberto Vannacci gains ground in the polls.
#GiorgiaMeloni #FarRight #Italy #Politics #Populism #Migration #Elections #RobertoVannacci #Meloni #Vannacci
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Revolutionary Communists of America - Revolutionary Communists of America [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Britain: The Many Faces of Andy Burnham—How Long Until the Mask Slips?
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Notes from underground: The Many Faces of Christianism -- Part 4: Populism & Religion
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The far right have adopted the term "far left populism" in another fine example of conservative projection. They refer to versions of democratic socialism being practised by the likes of NY Mayor Zohran Mamdani and possibly UK Prime minister Andy Burnham. Greg Sheridan in The Australian laments that young people, in being attracted to such politics, have forgotten the lessons of Stalin and Mao and the millions of people they killed. He casually conflates communist dictators from a century ago with today's democratic socialists, ignoring the word "democratic" in the descriptor. He presents no evidence that Mamdani is sneaking around at night committing mass murder in NY alleys.
My dictionary defines 'populism' as appealing to the prejudices or interests of ordinary citizens. But in my understanding the word refers to policies that seem appealing on the surface but in practice don't work, from Julius Caesar gifting land to all the plebs, to Brexit, to the immigration, nuclear and coal policies of the LNP and One Nation. They are usually right-wing offerings because the right just want to make the rich richer and the poor poorer so they try to fool enough of the people enough of the time to gain power.
In a similar vein LNP shadow treasurer Tim Wilson today blamed the unaffordable price of first homes on "CFMEU corruption". I'm not sure how Victoria's Big Build problems jack up prices in my local Bunnings or timber yard. I blame Bunnings' price gouging on their successful strategy of becoming a near monopoly by pricing most competition out of the market (my suburb used to have three hardware stores but they have all folded). It seems "lowest prices WERE just the beginning'! But I guess that just makes me a far-left populist. #auspol #Mamdani #populism -
https://open.substack.com/pub/aldogrech/p/born-free-bred-to-kneel
Submission to authority isn't human nature, it's manufactured. 2008 proved it: same crash, same playbook, different flags — Brexit, Trump, Sanders, Orban. Medium and LinkedIn versions coming.
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When someone inherits a giant swathe of land and says, “my family paid for this land, we weren’t the ones who stole it”, it sounds reasonable. When the people it was stolen from reply, “your family might have paid for the land, but they didn’t pay *us*”, that sounds pretty reasonable too.
Back then, some passing bonk of my friend was a former Israeli soldier. I only met him briefly but he left a lasting impression when he described his period of national service with a single gesture — pointing a finger gun casually at some vague spot in the distance, closing one eye, then pulling the trigger.
The dehumanisation is so easy.I don’t know what the solution is, but I’m pretty sure we won’t have to dig far to find money.
“The Western subject already has the facts; what they require is a disruption that prevents [a] sense of closure”
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“The reality of Palestine induces a special form of disavowal, because its implications threaten too much of what the West believes about itself…”There is Europe, and then there are the former colonies of Europe.
The current global order assumes time is linear, and the genocides and theft of the colonial era are complete.
The cognitive dissonance required to acknowledge what is happening — has been happening, and continues to happen in Palestine, is too great for delicate minds.This, I suspect, is at the core of populism, and grievance politics.
“The mere assertion of Palestinian existence – not rights or justice, just bare historical fact – registered in the Western ear as an act of aggression against someone else.”
and so people here must be happy to hear Pauline say
“Don’t expect a divisive Welcome to Country from me - this beautiful country belongs to all Australians born here and those who have joined us”truth is aggression.
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back in the 70s, a friend of mine who, I believed, had good values and was not just well educated but intelligent enough to make the education worthwhile, said something in passing one day about Palestine waging war against “her people”you could have knocked me down with a feather. I had always thought she was a lapsed anglican, or something, but it was during this conversation she told me she had a Jewish grandmother.
That stuff runs deep, I guess. And fair enough, cos them’s the rules the Nazis played by… their own version of the one drop rule.I think another part of the enormous sympathy the west had for Jewish people generally, was guilt. Forget that today other countries have grown to admire Australia’s policy of “F*** off, we’re full”… there was a time when we grew up wallowing in reliving what our parents and grandparents had gone through.
We learned about the fate in 1939 of the St Louis, a ship full of Jewish refugees turned away by Cuba, the USA and Canada. It spoke for all the many other instances of our own failure to help, and to prevent the holocaust.We convinced ourselves we knew better now, and would do better.
When my friend, that day, defended the establishment of Israel by referring to the Holocaust, I reminded her that Palestinians hadn’t been the ones at Auschwitz, feeding the ovens.
I’m reminded, in parallel, about Hanson complaining “nobody gave my land to me, I had to pay for my land”
That’s the narrative.
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https://carrickryan.substack.com/p/the-truth-is-behind-the-headlines
'#Populism, by its nature, rests upon the notion that all of the complex problems that #society is compelled to address actually have very simple #solutions.
'To hold this world view, it necessitates a deep mistrust of #expertise, of #institutions, and of #science, and anyone else that dares explain why the "simple solution" has already been dismissed from calculations.
'These are the natural adversaries of anyone intoxicated by overconfidence as a result of the Dunning Kruger Effect; a phenomenon by which those with the least amount of knowledge on a complex topic are so deficient in knowledge that they do not understand how much they don't know.
'Within that context, the visible impatience from those who spent decades studying the minute nuances of a topic can be indiscernible from arrogance, or potentially even intentional obfuscation.
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'Polling data has consistently shown that One Nation's support is strongest among people without a #university degree, particularly when combined with older age and living in regional or #rural Australia. These are, in many ways, those that have benefited the least from #globalisation and those that suffered the most from growing #economic #inequality.'#Conspiracy theories offer an explanation for their loss of #status and #wealth that appeals to our natural instinct to blame misfortune on the malicious acts of others. It is cathartic to attribute grievance to the immorality of a nefarious "elite" rather than our own failure to adapt to a rapidly changing world....'
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This kind of politics makes it nearly impossible to work across party lines. How do you find a shared purpose with people that just call you trash or who are busy in their spare time breaking the country apart?
If Findlay’s party forms government with this no sense at the hilt we’re in for a rough time.
Imagine them governing in a crisis? Culture wars are boring.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/07/17/BC-Conservatives-Hire-Alberta-Separatist/
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Nigel Farage was never a man of the people.
'Why Nigel Farage is no longer a man of the people'
#Populism usually ends in the erosion of democracy, and this nonsensical by-election couldn’t sum that up better.
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Ich schaue gerade Die Simpsons Staffel 9, Episode 22.
In der Folge legt sich Homer mit den Müllwerkern an und tritt als ziemlich populistischer Kandidat für den Posten des Müllbeseitigungsreferenten an.
Er bewirft seinen sachlich-nüchternen Gegenkandidaten rhetorisch mit Müll und Lügen und macht irre Versprechungen, die er nicht halten kann.
Die Methoden erinnern an Trump und MAGA.
#dieSimpsons #theSimpsons #maga #trump #populism #populismus
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More generous unemployment benefits and labour market support were linked to lower support for populist parties across 134 national elections in 16 countries, while cuts to unemployment protection were associated with higher populist vote shares
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#LaborMarkets #Populism #ElectionResearch https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/could-better-welfare-support-curb-rise-of-populism
Reenviado desde Science News
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Views on migration. Cartoon from 2024.
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@Twiteryeanot I wonder if there's a small, uninhabited island where we can send people — OK, let's be honest, men — like Farage, Johnson, Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, and Orbán. They could take turns overthrowing each-other as President/Dictator.
We could also relocate Rupert Murdoch with Fox News and The Sun to the island, to give them the media adulation they all crave.
GoFundMe?
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Marine Le Pen is campaigning. She thrives in campaigning. Judicial problems are likely to come again in early 2027 but there is only 22% of Yes in a poll (by Cevipof) to the question: "Do you think politicians are honest?". French citizens routinely favour sentenced politicians if popular. So we may expect populism to grow and prosper in France up to the presidential election in May 2027.
Meanwhile the government supports brutalisation and shows that check and balance are a problem: the minister champions a law project to change the current law whereby a police officer who uses his weapon must prove that his or her shooting was necessary and proportionate.
Meanwhile the government makes military ceremonies enter schools: (fr) https://blogs.mediapart.fr/b-girard/blog/070726/patriotisme-obligatoire-l-education-nationale-ouvre-ses-portes-l-extreme-droite
#populism #patriotism #nationalism #Lepenisation #Marine #LePen #brutalisation #police #stateViolence #education #Macron #France #FrPol #FrPolitics #FrenchPol #FrenchPolitics #justice #values #Rightward
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This piece linked to below lists five good reasons for reading #Dickens. I’d add another: as demonstrated in #BarnabyRudge, he had an acute understanding of the dangers of #nativist #populism: doncurren.blogspot.com/2024/02/on-c...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mq3cb6ubwc2h
On Charles Dickens, Barnaby Ru...
