| ▲ | deaux 5 hours ago |
| Popular, or "common", rather than populist. |
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| ▲ | nostrademons 5 hours ago | parent [-] |
| I actually meant populist, meaning affiliated with populist ("of the ordinary people") political parties on both right and left. |
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| ▲ | beepbooptheory 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Do 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! | | |
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| ▲ | nostrademons 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Populism 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. |
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