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.
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?
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.
I blame society.
“You see, it’s a spectrum. Yes I’m a fascist, but I’m an equal opportunities fascist.”
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.