Populism is the result of global economic failure
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Populism is the result of global economic failure
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#2Basically: neoliberalism is shit and everyone hates it.
People who are deeply invested in this ghastly status-quo quake at the prospect of the proles finally demanding a less insane mode of economy, hence all the blithering about populism.
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#3Populism is the failure of compulsory education and the beginnings of the fall of the 20th century western nation-state. The system favours the more-popular over the objectively-superior, and the biased, ancient mass schooling makes that the rule instead of the exception. We'll have to abolish nations and any sort of tribalism---how sophisticated might it be---or it'll decay by itself hurting everybody until it disappears.
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#5Populism is the failure of compulsory education and the beginnings of the fall of the 20th century western nation-state. The system favours the more-popular over the objectively-superior, and the biased, ancient mass schooling makes that the rule instead of the exception. We'll have to abolish nations and any sort of tribalism---how sophisticated might it be---or it'll decay by itself hurting everybody until it disap…
So you're suggesting more indoctrination and the abolition of states aka. conquest and colonialism?
Because the way we're going, there's going to be another world war long before people willingly succumb to a global state...
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#6Basically: neoliberalism is shit and everyone hates it. People who are deeply invested in this ghastly status-quo quake at the prospect of the proles finally demanding a less insane mode of economy, hence all the blithering about populism.
USA "proles" fell for populism and elected the worst neocapitalist team possible, against their own interests, that's what we're talking about when we talk about "populism".
By and large people (demographically) who voted for the democrats won't be much affected by the GOP gov, but the people who voted for the GOP will be badly affected.
If a mod comes here, I vote for closing this post, I feel it is very very prone to political flame wars.
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#7Populism is the failure of compulsory education and the beginnings of the fall of the 20th century western nation-state. The system favours the more-popular over the objectively-superior, and the biased, ancient mass schooling makes that the rule instead of the exception. We'll have to abolish nations and any sort of tribalism---how sophisticated might it be---or it'll decay by itself hurting everybody until it disap…
There's no lack of education that makes people accept other people that don't share your values (like secularism) and are against what you stand for.
Unless by "education" you mean brainwashing, which is something totalitarian states excel at (horseshoe theory and all)
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#8This is the same argument left academics have been using to excuse the repeated failure of electorates to vote for socialism for a century.
It's not a new argument. And it nicely avoids left wing thought ever having to take responsibility for its own electoral failures.
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#9Honestly this is a terrible article. I don't know why these "journalists" have such a hard time stepping out of their bubble. Ask a trump supporter it's great for me but it blows my mind how ignorant these cosmopolitans are. I just hope they keep their head in the sand so we can get another 4 years
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#10Populism is the failure of compulsory education and the beginnings of the fall of the 20th century western nation-state. The system favours the more-popular over the objectively-superior, and the biased, ancient mass schooling makes that the rule instead of the exception. We'll have to abolish nations and any sort of tribalism---how sophisticated might it be---or it'll decay by itself hurting everybody until it disap…
There's no lack of education that makes people accept other people that don't share your values (like secularism) and are against what you stand for. Unless by "education" you mean brainwashing, which is something totalitarian states excel at (horseshoe theory and all)
Nobody gives a damn about values. Otherwise the British nationalists wouldn't care about the Polish immigrant workers, but they do get a certain amount of hate.