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It seems pretty odd you have such a disdain for populism, but I'm guessing you believe in democracy. If most people prefer to participate that way and vote as
by Judgmentality 6y ago
It seems pretty odd you have such a disdain for populism, but I'm guessing you believe in democracy. If most people prefer to participate that way and vote as such, are you saying that the people are wrong? Because the whole point of democracy is letting the people decide for themselves what they want.
If you think democracy is fundamentally flawed though, then I guess your point makes more sense.
- everdrive 6y agoI genuinely don't want to take this to a negative place. So, please understand, I'm answering your question as best I can, and with positive intent. I believe populism can be quite bad, which is part of why the founding fathers designed a representative democracy, rather than a direct democracy. They were all well schooled in Greek and Roman history, and were afraid of the demagogues of Athens, and of other Greek city states. They believed that the will of the masses could be ignorant and capricious, and should be moderated by wiser more responsible representatives. Of course, they believed that the masses must have some say, (as do I) but that listening to every popular whim may not be the best thing for our country.
- Judgmentality 6y agoFair enough. Let's just agree to disagree. Cheers.
- redis_mlc 6y ago> and were afraid of the demagogues of Athens Yet here we are with Nancy Pelosi, who is nothing but a demagogue.
- 8note 6y agoDemocracy allows for people to be wrong. Its mechanism for fixing wrong votes is to convince people that they should vote a different way, rather than forcing a new direction on them. Having disdain for populism is well aligned with democracy. Shooting or torturing populists is not