What is Populism?

That’s all you got Fixed? Weak. :sunglasses:

Go back to taking hits off your bong man, it’s what you’re good at. Toke it up buddy. :sunglasses:

Damn. I so hoped you were going to accept my challenge.

Its frustrating for an audience wanting to see a good gorefest that it occurs to none of the disenfranchised revolutionaries to place themselves in the equation.

It will apparently just happen, like a miracle.

I bet. :sunglasses:

Except I’ve had twenty long miserable years to think through my plans. :sunglasses:

So you’re only 20 years old?

No that cant be.
What was the origin of this lengthy depression, if you don’t mind my asking?

So your leader, the dictator, he is preparing in hiding somewhere now, or is he riling up beer-halls as we speak?

Okay okay you won’t tell. You’re strategic.
You’re not telling me the whole truth.

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I never suggested that everything that benefits or doesn’t detriment the elite detriments or doesn’t benefit the poor.
That’s why I’m a social democrat and social corporatist, not a democratic socialist.
I believe in balancing the needs of capital with the need for the state or the mob to empower labor and consumers.

Trump was in favor of the Wall Street bailout.
Trump does nothing to challenge the private Federal Reserve.
Trump didn’t pay his taxes and hired illegals.
Trump leaves the border wide open.
Trump does nothing to end the unnecessary and costly war for Greater Israel, the military industrial complex, big oil and opium in West Asia.

All he’s done is slash taxes for the rich and cut spending on the poor.
But he’s not even a capitalist, he’s a crony capitalist.
Ron Paul and his son Rand are real capitalists, real republicans.
Trump is a neocon, a Zio-con, almost if not all of them are.

I thought right, you believe all social democracy is synonymous with elitism, and all capitalism and republicanism is synonymous with populism.
That’s how you define populism, but that’s not how I define it.

For me populism is that, what you said (intersubjective), but it’s also what’s actually good for the people, somewhat irrespective of what they think is good for them (objective).
It’s also a concrete ideology (democratic republicanism, economically center-left, culturally and socially center-right).
For me it’s multiple things.

Agreed, Athens and Rome were partly founded on populist principles, but every government has to at least feign to care about the general will from time to time, if they want to keep their head for very long.

Right

I’d say culturally and socially there’s a strong anti-conservative white male bias but economically there’s a strong crony capitalist bias.

For me, what’s popular is partly inherently good, but what’s inherently good is partly unnecessarily popular.
I’m an ethical pluralist, there’re multiple intrinsic goods.
Liberty is a good, but so is life, the ego, fraternity, equality, equity, health and happiness In the real world, intrinsic goods sometimes come into conflict with each other.
We define what’s good individually, popularly and expertly.
In order to maximize the overall good, sometimes particular goods must be sacrificed.

Did I say that? :sunglasses: :laughing: I’m almost 33.

Since a young adolescent I’ve always knew this nation was doomed where it was destroying itself. Over the past two decades it took me awhile to figure out why.

Would take way too long to explain and I don’t think you would listen anyways.

A strong charismatic leader always rises to the occasion in chaotic portions of history where whole societies are on the brink of ruin or collapse, who will rise to the occasion this time around we don’t know yet…

We’re at the point of being way past or beyond negotiations and reasonable dialogue where we’re at the point of eliminating opposition instead. At the very least neutralizing opposition. :sunglasses:

Violent revolution is the only thing left on the table as all other non-violent means of negotiations or diplomacy has failed.

I understand different conflict of interests all too easily Promethean and yes, people moralize as a way of justifying their self interests, I understand this also. :wink:

Also, I think you underestimate human nature where people knowingly conspire against, undermine, and go out of their way intentionally to hurt others for their own benefit. I have a different understanding of human nature than most and I do not view it with rose colored glasses. I’ve spent decades studying the more darker aspects of human nature which I view makes up the majority bulk of it, with that is also the reason human nature must be contained because if its not human beings will destroy each other or the entire planet. Human nature needs an iron rod placed over it to smash and mold it into something better towards a general aspiring guiding principle, I’m a firm believer in this.

Even if this seems unfair, its going to be a gigantic anarchic mix breed mayhem, a synthesis under the eye of the will to power. Under this prospect there will be endless more and less successful attempts to preserve racial purity and of course nations like China will be quite successful but I contend that this will bring them in trouble, and that as they begin to experiment with allowing good Han stock or whatever to breed with different races, they will quickly realize the immense potential their gene pool has when different patterns activate it. Then Chinese will really come to rule the world, but as a slow synthesis over thousands of years. It is inevitable, especially if the decline of the West is as drastic as predicted here, but in general its not really thinkable that China will not have to make use of its full potential to fulfill its destiny. As organizer of the world - here will be a legit “green” regime, let me coin it then, Chinamen, please make your government into a green dragon. You had the Yellow Emperor of the Dragon which is China, and Yellow is Earth, foundation, whereas Green is the colour of anger. But anyway the west, America, what comes of it - military loyalties must always decide. You have basically always hardline nationalists and geostrategists, as directions of thought, always in the history of war. Im not talking about tactics but as mindsets. So your military personnel is always going to fall in either of these two command chains no matter what grunts will feel in their hearts.

You’ve just ousted yourself with this terrible disgusting post.

“After white western civilization dies the Asians civilizations are next and getting rid of their own racial or ethnic purity through dilution is a good thing too.”

That’s all I need to know where your philosophy or thinking stands.

This is but a temporary solution to a permanent problem

There have been violent revolutions for as long as civilisation has existed because of the hierarchical structure of society and this has never changed
That is because there will always be those at the bottom or in the middle who are very unhappy with the way those at the top are ruling over them
So when there is a change at the top it is only a matter of time before the masses become unhappy with that regime and so want another revolution

In the old days it was more violent but nowadays we do not have to kill them as we can just vote them out every four or five years
But the principle remains the same - the ones at the bottom or in the middle do not like those at the top so want to remove them
So this is the reason why here in the West and indeed in any non Western democracy we have to have elections on a regular basis

False promises and the corruption of power are the two main reasons why no one can or should rule over their people for all of time
You cannot please all of the people all of the time either which is an impossible ideal any way so it should never even be considered

No system can guarantee Utopia and everyone that has been tried has been less than perfect so we choose democracy as that is the least imperfect one

And so when you do eventually get your violent revolution you will have that exact same hierarchical structure that has always existed
As I have already said the entire history of civilisation has been hierarchical and there is absolutely nothing that can be done about this
For it is a fundamental law of Nature - the entire animal kingdom functions according to it - and we are but a tiny part of that kingdom

To eliminate this within human society would require nothing less than we all become hard wired to the concept of universal altruism
This is just not possible because of individual free will and the natural instinct of human beings to want to belong to their own tribes

So when you do eventually get your violent revolution you will be happy because you will be at the top
You may not be ruling over others as such but you will have achieved the desired result that you wanted

But at some point in the future those at the bottom or in the middle will want regime change and so they will then have their violent revolution
And this continual change at the top - whether by violent or non violent means - will carry on ad infinitum till the human race is finally no more

The greatest empires that have ever existed are now no more because of this continual change so when your revolution comes remember it will have a sell by date

And often then makes things worse, gets beheaded, or both.

Then this coming breakdown functions like a lottery ticket for you. Poor people by lottery tickets because it means, maybe in the next couple of days all the misery will end. They are paying to feel less what today feels like, in the end.

Imagine it is 15 years from now and the coming apocalypse is still just around the corner.

You want them to suffer. But this ends up being you need them to suffer or you can’t feel right. Which means you aren’t here now.

You might as well be waiting for Jesus to come and lift up the righteous. It is the exact same psychological pattern, except you are honest about what for them is undercurrent desire for revenge.

None of this means that the collapse isn’t coming.

But the psychological pattern means you won’t be able to enjoy it when it comes.

It’s like applying for a job that will make other people feel bad if you get it.

You are living for others.

He was the first famous one for moderns, but for Romans, the first populists were the populares party (akin to the democrats or liberals) of the Roman republic, in part, and the optimates party (akin to the republicans or conservatives), in part.
Julius Caesar was a populares, while his chief rival, Pompey, was an optimates.

What is it you want to know Fixed?