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In Spain the word populism has turned into an insult that traditional political parties use freely against new political parties even if the statements are perf
by santialbo 10y ago
In Spain the word populism has turned into an insult that traditional political parties use freely against new political parties even if the statements are perfectly legit (e.g. universal basic income). Is this happening in other countries too?
- monkmartinez 10y agoNot in the US... because we really only have 2 parties, which is extremely unfortunate. We are polarized by design.
- tomp 10y agoYes. Everywhere "populism" is used as an insult for political parties that actually listen to people and intent to do as the population wants, as opposed to established parties that mainly keep their power because of intertia and are getting more and more disconnected from their voters. Populism is how democracy is supposed to work.
- AstralStorm 10y agoTo a point. Good leaders are supposed to explain what is good, useful and especially why in case someone does not understand. That is called propaganda though.