> Our era of soundbite politicians vulnerable to populist measures which superficially sound reasonable I’m deeply skeptical that this is a real problem. I mea

> Our era of soundbite politicians vulnerable to populist measures which superficially sound reasonable I’m deeply skeptical that this is a real problem. I mean, there’s defined a list of extremely popular issues which have no support from politicians (like a healthcare reform in US), and also a long list of unpopular policies enacted a lot of times with bipartisan support.