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From Wikipedia: Populism is a political position which holds that the virtuous citizens are being mistreated by a small circle of elites, who can be overthrown
by mraison 10y ago
From Wikipedia:
Populism is a political position which holds that the virtuous citizens are being mistreated by a small circle of elites, who can be overthrown if the people recognize the danger and work together. The elites are depicted as trampling in illegitimate fashion upon the rights, values, and voice of the legitimate people.
The notion itself is quite subjective of course, but it is definitely very different from "democracy".
- sbmassey 10y agoIt seems to be a pretty common stance taken by democratic political parties across history.
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- mhuffman 10y agoThis seems to objectively be the case in the US, right?[1] [1] http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FPPS%2FPPS12_03%2FS1537592714001595a.pdf http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FPPS%2FPPS...
- ionised 10y agoSounds like populism is just the recognition of oligarchy.