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An interpretation is classic grade school class President runs on "no homework" or "free lunch", things people will vote for because they sound good for them no
by smileysteve 1y ago
An interpretation is classic grade school class President runs on "no homework" or "free lunch", things people will vote for because they sound good for them now, not because they have merit.
Lower income taxes sounds great today, but greater wealth inequality and no social safety net making wealth meaningless (population level poverty and poor social mobility make life for even the wealthy worse)
- paulsutter 1y agoRight, people can make bad choices, but still how is that different from democracy? Maybe you're saying it means democracy-when-it-doesnt-select-"elites"?
- owisd 1y ago- people made bad choices despite a good faith, deliberative, representative process to make good choices - democracy - people made bad choices through deception or carelessness - populism.
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- exceptione 1y ago> "no homework" or "free lunch", things people will vote for because they sound good for them now, not because they have merit. The working class doesn't think that way, on the contrary! They have to live careful as small missteps have long term consequences. There are plenty of cases where people will happily vote for austere measures, and they rather think the government should spend less. For the ultra wealthy, everything is free lunch for them, even if that would mean you will be 10% poorer. If the 0.01% get 10% richer, and the rest 10% poorer, than that is still a win for them. Hence why right wing populists are a great business case to invest in.