Well if you're poor, you have no free speech in any case. Populism is just a desperate way for the poor working class to acquire free speech by leveling the pla

Well if you're poor, you have no free speech in any case. Populism is just a desperate way for the poor working class to acquire free speech by leveling the playing field... Sometimes that means taking the whole economy down but poor people don't care at all about the economy; especially when they already don't have jobs. What do they have to lose? Populism is rational and rooted entirely in capitalist self-interest. What the rich don't understand about populism is that these people are not misguided or manipulated. They know exactly what's going on, they know that populism will destroy the economy, but this is exactly what they want.