Until fairly recently I didn't realize that "Populism" carried a
negative connotation. I had always heard it as a positive thing...
The tie between populism and the rise of fascism changed that for me.
I suppose *pure* populism is in fact fine, the awareness that the
general population, the overwhelming majority of the citizenry, when
pushed, can stand up to the elite (economic or political or both) who
tend to find ways to run things for their own purposes without regard to
the interests of the masses.
It seems that the current use of the term "populism" implies that the
extant elite de-facto rulers can have THEIR lunch handed to them by
another elite set of wanna-bes through the duping of the populace.
Hitler's rise to power was apparently on the rising tide of a
disaffected populace through the use of "demagoguery, scapegoating, and
conspiracism" according to Fritzsche. This sounds just a bit (lot) too
much like the working style of Herr Donald Drumpf this round.
I don't like being manipulated by "the powers that be", but it isn't a
bit more fun to have "the powers that wanna be" manipulate me into
helping them have their wishes. I *hope* some of Trumps Trumpeteers
come to recognize how they were duped in what to me seems like a fairly
obvious manner.
And meanwhile I hope that the rest of the world can learn something of
this movement from us (and the Brexiteers before us).
<sigh>
On 11/10/16 7:40 PM, Sarbajit Roy wrote:
http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/
It seems that depressed economies imply we are going to have a rash of
fascism everywhere. Here's to World War III. Cheers.
On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Gary Schiltz
<g...@naturesvisualarts.com <mailto:g...@naturesvisualarts.com>> wrote:
Well put. This is not a game.
On Tuesday, November 8, 2016, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com
<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote:
"The fact that world H and world D are such closely adjacent
possibles is what I am savoring (in the sense of morbid
fascination) for roughly the next 24-36 hours. "
To first order, this isn't about the ideological aspirations
of one candidate vs. the other (or the completely irrelevant
others). It's about choosing between a person who can and has
managed in relevant circumstances, and a man-child that
obviously needs to be managed and who obviously draws-from and
amplifies the worst in people, has many indicators of an
authoritarian personality, and is a likely target for
blackmail and manipulation by foreign powers. The potential
upside of this non-contest is that a thinker and policy wonk
may sneak through as the winner by default. Even stranger is
that it would be historic -- and somehow that is almost a
footnote. The whole thing is surreal and even scarier than
Brexit.
Marcus
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