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Actually they are much better! Trump ran on an explicitly populist platform ("I listen to you, the elites don't") and Johnson is currently staring down the thre
by repolfx 7y ago
Actually they are much better! Trump ran on an explicitly populist platform ("I listen to you, the elites don't") and Johnson is currently staring down the threat of a jail sentence because he's trying to actually leave the EU, as voters requested. They are much more guided by what's popular with voters than EU leaders are.
And yes I know lots of people living in the EU think it's great. Lots of people living in the USSR thought it was great too, as can be seen from the opinion polls showing how many Russian think Stalin was their greatest leader. That doesn't change the nature of what these systems are.
- unionpivo 7y agoWhat Trump ran on and what Trump does are two different things. And Boris (among many others), more or less engineered the whole brexit so he could gain power, if that fails he is done. He is doing it because he bet his whole career on it, and has nothing to loose. And as someone who lived (although only for about 12 years of my life) behind iron curtain. I can assure you most people didn't think it was ok, and we are paying attention so we don't end up in the same situation again.
- seebs 7y agoSo Trump ran on basically the same platform as Hitler ("I listen to you! I will fix things and make us great! Other people are bad and a threat to us!") and you think this is better? Part of what we usually want from our politicians is to filter what people want a little bit and remove some of the evil and stupid. I know, then we don't get exactly what we want. But if you ask exactly what people want, about 90% of it ends up being "people not like me to suffer more", and if you run everything based on that, all you get is everyone suffering more.