Message from @notaglobe

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2019-10-01 12:00:45 UTC  

The populists come

2019-10-01 12:00:56 UTC  

And when the populists fail to deliver concrete chnage

2019-10-01 12:00:59 UTC  

The elites come

2019-10-01 12:01:06 UTC  

And thus it cycles

2019-10-01 12:01:16 UTC  

I think the term populist is an oxymoron - wouldn't anyone who wins by popular vote by definition be populist?

2019-10-01 12:01:45 UTC  

Populists are very defined though

2019-10-01 12:01:50 UTC  

You can identify them

2019-10-01 12:01:54 UTC  

Yes it's a shitty label

2019-10-01 12:02:04 UTC  

But yeah

2019-10-01 12:02:21 UTC  

The elitists have failed in the USA and the UK

2019-10-01 12:02:27 UTC  

And now the populists are rocking up

2019-10-01 12:02:34 UTC  

And they are kicking and screaming

2019-10-01 12:02:55 UTC  

Eventually it will turn back

2019-10-01 12:03:03 UTC  

I trust populists more, at least they're brazen in lying

2019-10-01 12:03:22 UTC  

If we mean populist politicians

2019-10-01 12:03:43 UTC  

There is a place for both

2019-10-01 12:03:59 UTC  

But at the end of the day there's little difference because all politicians lie for votes

2019-10-01 12:04:02 UTC  

what's the populists we're talking about then?

2019-10-01 12:04:04 UTC  

When the populists start to not institute and real changes or policies to maintain popularity

2019-10-01 12:04:19 UTC  

can you give me a good definition to work with?

2019-10-01 12:04:30 UTC  

^ asking in good faith, not a trap

2019-10-01 12:04:31 UTC  

So it could be said all politicians are populists

2019-10-01 12:04:36 UTC  

Someone who were to listen to people

2019-10-01 12:04:37 UTC  

that's what I said

2019-10-01 12:04:39 UTC  

Over advisors

2019-10-01 12:04:43 UTC  

Or other countries etc

2019-10-01 12:04:43 UTC  

oh

2019-10-01 12:04:49 UTC  

Populists are usually more nationalist

2019-10-01 12:05:01 UTC  

More dedicated to their home country, their peoples

2019-10-01 12:05:06 UTC  

isn't that just non milk toast non-centrists?

2019-10-01 12:05:22 UTC  

You can take it to the extremes of course

2019-10-01 12:05:31 UTC  

I just described a general populist

2019-10-01 12:05:45 UTC  

There's an insinuation that populists tell the people what they want to hear, but they all do that anyway

2019-10-01 12:05:47 UTC  

You can have a populist that never does anything, gives the people everything for free

2019-10-01 12:05:51 UTC  

Crippling the country

2019-10-01 12:05:54 UTC  

Just for votes

2019-10-01 12:06:01 UTC  

That's extreme

2019-10-01 12:06:04 UTC  

Corbyn

2019-10-01 12:06:16 UTC  

nah, corbyn is ideaolical

2019-10-01 12:06:26 UTC  

Sometimes you need an elite to do what is nessisary

2019-10-01 12:06:28 UTC  

everything for free is part of that