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> politicians can win by being emotionally satisfying That is called populism and comes with a huge stigma for a reason. > The common denominator on the left
by 1718627440 9mo ago
> politicians can win by being emotionally satisfying
That is called populism and comes with a huge stigma for a reason.
> The common denominator on the left and the right is a completely garbled and fragmentary concept of the Constitution.
Sure, a disagreement with what people think and what the constitution says is going to cause problems. Ultimately society is based on trust, once you loose that you have already lost some important part. The existence and growth of para-country organizations (e.g. FAANG) has certainly affected if not effected your current issue (and continues to do so for other countries in the world).
- gsf_emergency_6 9mo agoPedantry: the general term is emotivism, not populism. "intellectuals" (shorthand for the average HNer) are vulnerable to that, we just won't admit it. It's hard for trust to work beyond the Dunbar limit-- representative democracy is a jerry-rig-- but Swiss sidestep that with (a version of) direct democracy Update: since there's a false etymology that "jerry" comes from "German", may I suggest we stay below the line https://magdamiu.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/13.png https://magdamiu.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/13.png https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/16npbs4/the_term_is_gerryrigged_not_juryrigged_right/ https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/16npbs4/...