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Popular, or "common", rather than populist.
by deaux 4mo ago
Popular, or "common", rather than populist.
- nostrademons 4mo agoI actually meant populist, meaning affiliated with populist ("of the ordinary people") political parties on both right and left.
- beepbooptheory 4mo agoDo all the non politically affiliated people who hate billionaires not count? Or why is the granularity here important? Your point is stronger the other way!
- nostrademons 4mo agoPopulism is a "thin" political ideology that often gets layered on top of other political ideologies, both left- and right-wing. It simply means "policies that appeal to ordinary people" (vs. a rich and perceived corrupt elite). By definition, someone who hates billionaires simply because they are billionaires is a populist. They might hate other populists that have attached themselves to other political ideologies (and have different scapegoats or preferred policy prescriptions to rectify the inequality), but they are still a populist.
- deaux 4mo ago> By definition, someone who hates billionaires simply because they are billionaires is a populist. You've ascribed to them an ideology they don't hold. They don't hold that view "simply because they are billionaires".
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- deaux 4mo agoMeaning is derived from real usage, not from dictionaries. Descriptivism has won. And in the real world, it's simply used as a cheap shot to claim that certain policies or thoughts are only for the winning of votes rather than well thought out or other "ideology" based.