• Infynis@midwest.social
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    9 months ago

    Except, here in the US, the neo-nazis aren’t even concerned with making their constituents’ lives better. They make them as bad as they possibly can, and their cult still doesn’t believe it

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      9 months ago

      That’s the beauty of sado-populism

      • Enact policy that hurts your constituents

      • Blame out-group du jour for the problem

      • Run on “stopping” said out-group

      • Rinse and repeat, change out-group as necessary.

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        9 months ago

        Populism is always bad. Be it left or right, conservative or liberal, socialist or capitalist. It is always reactionary and never leads anywhere sane or sober.

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          9 months ago

          Can you please define what you view as “populism”? For whatever reason every time someone says it they either mean a definition so vague and broad that it means almost any mass movement or definition different from any other I’ve heard.

          I have spent the past few weeks constantly getting more and more confused.