#populism — Public Fediverse posts

She's now talking about #InformationWarfare and #Disinformation attacks. What to do when foreign influence operation try to distort democratic debate?
What to do about the rise of #populist and anti-European powers?

Last year the #EU opened the "Centre for Democratic Resilience."

Speaking of democratic resilience, you can have your say in the online policy debate about that here: https://citizens.ec.europa.eu/online-debate-democratic-resilience_en

#Democracy #FckAfD #populism

#Gena and #FakeNews on toxic social media platforms attempting (and pehaps succeding) in driving the narrative to suit her inflated ego and misguided social conscience. Is the electorate gullible enough? Naive enough? Scary questions if you ask me.

https://theklaxon.com.au/sham-hanson-news-sites-push-rinehart-propaganda/

#AusPol #PHON #FarRightPolitics #Populism #PoliticalPropaganda

We need schools to teach children to actively seek out complexity. When anyone ever offers simple solutions (even left leaning populists), our instinct should be to add complexity to it. We live in an incredibly complicated and intertwined world and few things are purely bad, but many things have downsides which need to be discussed and regulated. Let's cultivate complexity!
#politics #democracy #culture #populism

»Democracy needs its champions. Here’s a proposal on how to fund them« https://theconversation.com/democracy-needs-its-champions-heres-a-proposal-on-how-to-fund-them-289760?Populist.in #FactsCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

»Democracy needs its champions. Here’s a proposal on how to fund them« https://theconversation.com/democracy-needs-its-champions-heres-a-proposal-on-how-to-fund-them-289760?Populist.in #FactsCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

»Democracy needs its champions. Here’s a proposal on how to fund them« https://theconversation.com/democracy-needs-its-champions-heres-a-proposal-on-how-to-fund-them-289760?Populist.in #FactsCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

Fukuyama Says Hungary a Model for How Americans Can ‘Rebuke Trumpism’ in Midterms https://www.byteseu.com/2363351/ #DonaldTrump #election #FrancisFukuyama #Hungary #HungaryNews #Liberalism #midterm #Orbánism #PeterMagyar #populism #Trumpism #ViktorOrban

Fukuyama Says Hungary a Model for How Americans Can ‘Rebuke Trumpism’ in Midterms

Francis Fukuyama has held up Péter Magyar’s landslide defeat of Viktor Orbán as a model for Americans seeking…
#Hungary #HU #Europe #Europa #EU #DonaldTrump #election #FrancisFukuyama #hír #hungary #Hungarynews #liberalism #Magyarország #Midterm #Orbánism #PeterMagyar #populism #Trumpism #ViktorOrbán
https://www.europesays.com/3249434/

https://www.europesays.com/people/226377/ Fukuyama Says Hungary a Model for How Americans Can ‘Rebuke Trumpism’ in Midterms #DonaldTrump #election #FrancisFukuyama #Hungary #HungaryNews #liberalism #Midterm #Orbánism #PeterMagyar #Populism #trumpism #ViktorOrbán

A history and response to economoic oligarchs -

Ivanka Trump—and Everyone Else—Sees One European Country as the Next Mediterranean Tourist Mecca. I Went to See Why People Are So Mad. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/09/ivanka-trump-albania-tourism-development-jared-kushner-protests.html

#Albania #economicdevelopment #corruption #economicdisparity #environment #populism

To understand how the political monster is born and the process of eroding of democracy is to witness the subsequent skill of masquerade performed by any political party which vehemently, to ride free on the last three seats of a train which is heading to a destructive world, for vanity or for folly.

#Politics #Democracy #Populism #Opportunism #Humanity #Germany #RadicalFoolishness #FarRight #Fascism #Drama

#MissKittyPolitics If the #EU doesn't want #Russia to roll, they need to help #Ukraine slam the door. Hey #Merz, go all in and get your #Populism on by decrying #AfD's intrusion into protecting the #Homeland while you start sending money, bombs, and lawyers to #Kyiv. It will save your ass!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vovinwhtulbsx4mwfw26r5ni/post/3muyizarf372a

'worldview, including beliefs and opinions, starts to form during childhood as you’re socialized within a particular cultural context. It gets reinforced over time by the social groups you keep, the media you consume, even how your brain functions...For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity and can cause them to harden their position. Here’s some of the research that explains why it’s natural to resist changing your mind – and how you can get better at making these shifts'

#democracy #psychology #politics #populism

https://theconversation.com/cognitive-biases-and-brain-biology-help-explain-why-facts-dont-change-minds-186530

AfD’s historic win splits European opinion.

Alternative for Germany won 43.8% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, more than double its showing five years ago in the region of 2.1 million people west of Berlin.

AfD’s landslide victory has drawn celebration from Europe’s populist right and a sharp condemnation from Poland’s prime minister.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260907-afds-historic-win-splits-european-opinion?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Germany #Elections #AfD #Politics #Poland #FarRight #Populism

Americans are having to hide receiving basic healthcare like vaccines (not to mention abortions.) This sounds like the underground railroad that used to run when slavery was legal to help people escape. Unbelievable. #giftArticle #populism
https://wapo.st/4ha2Ccj

"The far right does not emerge outside mainstream political culture. Its nationalism, authoritarianism and populism draw on ideas with deep roots in Australian life."

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2026/09/03/australia-shift-right

#auspol #nationalism #authoritarism #populism #onenation

Kaikille tiededenialismia episteemisen populismin muotona miettiville iloinen uutinen, että Christobal Bellolion tuore SERRC-artikkeli tarjoaa Alexandre Billonin SE-artikkelia ruotiessaan ravitsevaa ajankulua useammaksikin toviksi,

https://social-epistemology.com/2026/08/18/assessing-scientific-denialism-as-epistemic-populism-cristobal-bellolio/

Kirjoittaja johtaa Chilessä tutkimusprojektia ilmastokriisin poliittisista haasteista.

#serrc #tiede #science #denialism #populism #society #epistemology #criticalThinking #standpoint #tieto #knowledge #conspiracy #valistus #enlightenment #understanding #wisdom #climate #research #tutkimus

Disrupting the flow of knowledge: A newspaper article with a summary of excess deaths from a heatwave is an excellent example of how we gain important knowledge beyond our immediate experience. Information, perhaps with some errors, flows from a multitude of observations (hospitals) over institutions collecting and processing information to an easily accessible form (a newspaper article), read by many individuals. These informed individuals have then a better basis for decisions, including for whom to vote or not to vote.

For populists, the latter is the scary part. Before they are in power, they therefore try to undermine trust in key elements of the flow of information (e.g. science, institutions, and the media) and to inject their own narratives. When in power, the attacks on the flow of information become more consequential from defunding science, over manipulating education to controlling media. So, in a country ruled by populists who deny essential aspects of reality you will at some point no longer read such newspaper articles because information is not collected, not summarized, or not published. Such a reality-denying system is unstable and will lead to more suffering, as history has shown over and over.
https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2026/08/19/canicule-1-243-morts-en-exces-ont-ete-recenses-entre-le-3-et-le-22-juillet-par-sante-publique-france_6749871_3224.html
#education #populism #climatecrisis

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

Hypocrisy is a virtue

(almost all western leaders)
#politics #populism #teamSpain

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

"...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?

#politics #democracy #populism #economy

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jonathanfreedland

Making & #BreakingPoints: #Populism, New #Media & More | The #WeeklyShow with #JonStewart #yt

https://youtu.be/XmYD4udHP6k

The Bizarre Debate Over Europe’s Air Conditioning (/Prof Gio | Giordano Scarciotti)

https://piefed.social/c/europe@feddit.org/p/2274960/the-bizarre-debate-over-europes-air-conditioning-prof-gio-giordano-scarciotti

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.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260810-a-new-rival-is-forcing-italys-meloni-back-to-her-far-right-roots?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#GiorgiaMeloni #FarRight #Italy #Politics #Populism #Migration #Elections #RobertoVannacci #Meloni #Vannacci

Britain: The Many Faces of Andy Burnham—How Long Until the Mask Slips?

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://communistusa.org/britain-the-many-faces-of-andy-burnham-how-long-until-the-mask-slips/

Notes from underground: The Many Faces of Christianism -- Part 4: Populism & Religion
https://methodius.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-many-faces-of-christianism-part-4.html

#Christianity #religion #Christianism #populism

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.

#Democracy #Populism #CriticalThinking

Canadians not confident public service is prepared for the future
#Canada #Politics #PublicService #Government #Economy #PublicPolicy #MarkCarney #StateCapacity #PublicTrust #CivilService #Governance #Taxpayers #Trade #Leadership #Federal #Populism
https://the-14.com/canadians-not-confident-public-service-is-prepared-for-the-future/

Loss - the belief in progress and the reality of experiences of loss.

* Grievance-fuelled violence at home and psychological harm reduction

"The family violence workforce is stretched in Western societies... 20 out of 38 reviewed cases of fatal family violence were "grievance-fuelled"...The Fixated Grievance Perpetrator Intervention Pilot brings together experts in forensic psychology and psychiatry, criminology, policing, perpetrator intervention and victim support."

World-first trial testing whether counterterrorism strategies can prevent domestic homicide >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/dv-new-trial-terrorism-domestic-violence-grievance-homicide/106658162
#violence #FamilyViolence #grievance #loss #ressentiment #precarity #masculinity #entitlement #resentment #anger #GenderBasedViolence #homicide #DV #terror #CrisisOfReproduction #crimes #HarmReduction #therapists #psychologisation

* The role of loss within society
Andreas Reckwitz 's book 'Loss, A Modern Predicament, The first comprehensive study of the role of loss within society", 2025 explains loss not only from a psychological perspective, but also from a sociological one.

"Loss has come to occupy a central position in late modernity – whether in the consequences of climate change or the entrenchment of negative expectations about the future, the ‘losers’ of post-industrial modernisation or the collective processing of ‘historical wounds’ and of who is acknowledged as the victims and perpetrators of these crimes, in a heightened psychological awareness of vulnerability, in political populism, a nostalgia for things past, or programmes of resilience."

"Loss is the bread and butter of populism." >>
https://res.cloudinary.com/suhrkamp/images/q_auto/v1742134247/151338/loss_9783518588222_sample_translation.pdf
#loss #progress #ProgressNarrative #improvement #credibility #modernity #stagnation #precariousness #experience #inequality #StatusAnxiety #SocialHierarchy #CollectiveExperiencesOfLoss #populism #nostalgia #socioanalysis #ClimateDisasters #PolyCrisis #WesternModernity #future #book

🤦🏻‍♀️ In Denmark, the Center Did Not Hold

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/denmark-social-democrats-centrism-elections/

#politics #europe #denmark #populism #centrism

The new face of the Republican Party. Forget RINOs. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the "Depublicans".

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-01-22/real-rinos-arent-who-you-think-they-are

#bigGovernment #conservatism #creditCard #Depublicans #GOP #horseshoeTheory #housingPolicy #industrialPolicy #MAGA #nationalism #populism #priceControls #protectionism #RINO #socialism #USPolitics

Sunday, January 18, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/01/sunday-january-18-2026/

‘The Most Radical Thing About Master of None’s Islam Episode Is That It Isn’t About Religion’: https://slate.com/culture/2017/05/master-of-nones-religion-episode-isnt-about-islam.html. https://slate.com/culture/2017/05/master-of-nones-religion-episode-isnt-about-islam.html ‘What’s the Monarchy for?’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002n21h/whats-the-monarchy-for Religions? Can monarchs and or governments protect the people from the stupidity and projected popularity of celebrity death cults? Not if their rights depend on driving the finance of ecocide. Defenders of Empire’s faith, masters of none! Popular monarchs by consent, the great absurdity: psychopathic narcissists with nuclear codes! #Populism ? #SemiticPeople #MuslimFear #JewishFear #ChristianFear #ReligiousHateAndFear #religious ?#ReligiousDeathCults #HateAndFear #NewKindsOfMonarchy #EarthFirst #ApocalypticBlackmail #HydraUnbound #CelebrityDeathCults #StupidMobs #EmpireOfMonarchs #PhilosopherKings #Oligarchs #Plutocrats #FreedomFrom #TheGreatAbsurdity #TheFederation #RepublicsSovereignty

There's something that's so sad, yet so unsurprising about Trump's response to the '#NoKings' protest... To him and his cronies, he is more than King 👑, to himself especially, he is the centre of the universe and the 'most powerful man in the world '.. But after all he's represented and done, even considering #Project2025 , isn't this a tragedy where the people have only themselves to blame?
#Populism or not, the Trump effect is a symptom of a larger problem, a dissonance of the populace.. a clouding of the collective judgment of what's right and wrong.. A sort of extreme example of political division that descends into vitriol and hate, the kind that'd make movies like #CivilWar seem likely to happen irl..
Since #Trump was duly elected, and by none else but American citizens, maybe then the issues at hand are self-inflicted?? It's not like #racism and #immigration are new topics that Trump hasn't talked about or acted on before.. He's been president before and he's been opposed to hosting immigrants before, even building his infamous wall 🧱..
Therefore, if we elected Trump knowing all this.. essentially giving him the tools of power to effect his (and by extension, our) beliefs, maybe then it's we that are doing this ourselves,, raiding people's homes and workplaces and 'deporting them to camps'.. maybe it's us doing this through Trump.. maybe we are, subconsciously, throwing out those we feel do not belong??.. and blaming Trump because it's the easier thing to do rather than blaming ourselves... 🤷🤷
Maybe #NoKingsProtest is a realization that we messed up big time, and would much rather have chosen better; as we think we shall next time? Question is, though, if we didn't learn on Trump's first presidency 🥇, shall we ever??
#Trump #Elections #AmericanDemocracy #Politics #Opinion #Democracy #NoKings #TrumpJet #USPolitics #ManiaNews #ManiaAfrica

I'm sharing a new history post on my blog. Hope anyone who came to read enjoyed it.
https://feministpassion.blogspot.com/2025/10/from-global-power-to-existential.html

#history #UK #Britain #Britishhistory #colonialism #migration #gender #nationalism #nationalidentity #populism #population #writing #WritingCommunity #nonfiction #blogpost

Pierre Poilievre already limits journalists to one question with no follow up so as to control rhe narrative and record clickbait for his fascist “X” followers.

His vitriol for left wing “radical woke” media now has him banning all press but his loyalist partisan groups.

Make no mistake, this is straight out of Trump’s playbook. Pierre will defund the #CBC while boosting right wing #RebelNews and other partisan media as our only “acceptable” Canadian news sources.

#PierrePoilievre has fully embraced the populist division of Canadians as his key winning strategy.

Those of us who continue to question his motives or intentions are soon to be ignored and banished from his palace if he is given power.

Under Poilievre’s Canada, those deemed “woke” will be targeted and discriminated against as part of Conservative policy, with no questions allowed.

This is not my Canada. This is not my Prime Minister.

#JustLikeTrump #JustLikeADictator #NeverVoteConservative #JustLikeFascists #HateCampaign #discrimination #populism #waronwoke #waronpublicmedia #NoQuestions #NoTransparency #NoSecurityClearance #cdnpoli #canpoli

@Byrnejmf

Trump Vows to End Birthright Citizenship and Pardon Jan. 6 Rioters in NBC Interview - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/us/politics/trump-interview-meet-the-press.html

Guess the narcissistic megalomaniac needs impeachment before he even is inaugurated...

#trump #populism #hatemonger

from #TheGuardian
#KamalaHarris needs to mobilise voters around class – not race
by #DustinGuastella and #BhaskarSunkara

If #liberals insist #workers should focus more on race than shared class interests, they give right wing ammo for their culture war

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/01/kamala-harris-working-class-voters?CMP=share_btn_url

#IdentityPolitics #ClassPolitics
#Populism #DemocraticParty
#politics #USA #USPolitics #USElection
#media #news #press

Trump: Neither unique nor irreplaceable - #GwynneDyer
"what if Saturday’s bullet had hit #Trump abt 2 fingers’ width to the right & blown his brains out? Half the #US #population wld be enraged & the other half wld be #secretly relieved, but how much wld really be changed?🫨 The #Republican Party wld still be much farther to the right than it was 10 years ago, & it’s sheer #nonsense to believe tt Trump was the sole cause for that slide into #crude #nationalism & #populism"
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/trump-neither-unique-nor-irreplaceable-gwynne-dyer/ar-BB1pYwe4

@podcasts

#proximamente on this channel in this toot string!

Don't miss #jesuiSatires's destruction of #Drumpf's appearance on the #ALLInpodcast

#podcast #politics #USpol #democracy #populism

@podcasts

#proximamente on this channel in this toot string!

Don't miss #jesuiSatires's destruction of #Drumpf's appearance on the #ALLInpodcast

#podcast #politics #USpol #democracy #populism

@podcasts

#proximamente on this channel in this toot string!

Don't miss #jesuiSatires's destruction of #Drumpf's appearance on the #ALLInpodcast

#podcast #politics #USpol #democracy #populism

@podcasts

#proximamente on this channel in this toot string!

Don't miss #jesuiSatires's destruction of #Drumpf's appearance on the #ALLInpodcast

#podcast #politics #USpol #democracy #populism

Most analysts expected #Modi to brush aside #India’s enervated & poorly funded opposition parties, some of which had their #bank accounts frozen & their leaders #jailed by the govt in the run-up to the #election.

Yet the mood shifted dramatically as early vote counts trickled in Tues morning & indicated that the #BJP might not single-handedly secure the 272 seats needed in the 543-member #LokSabha lower house, as it comfortably did in 2014 & 2019.

#geopolitics #democracy #strongman #populism

#DeputyMayor of #Stockholm Dons #Lipstick, #Wig for #ChildrensStory Hour in #Drag #solidarity

'#Stories are not #dangerous for #kids. And #dragqueens aren't either,' says #JanJonsson in #video clip. 'But #populism and #intolerance are.'

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Sweden #Allies #Entertainment #Drag #DragQueens #Representation #Culture

https://themessenger.com/news/stockholm-deputy-mayor-dons-lipstick-wig-for-childrens-story-hour-in-drag-solidarity