Comments by "Holger P." (@holger_p) on "Populism, Explained" video.

  1. It's telling people what they already know and what they want to hear. You don't need much words, you don't need to convince anybody, people don't need to learn anything, you just need to confirm people, give them a secure feeling. It works cause its so effortless.
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  2. It's rhetoric or Psychologie, in no way politics. Politics is just an application.
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  3.  @mrD66M  you talk like it's for everybody. No it's not, it's for a certain amount of uneducated people. You cannot blame the governement if not the entire population is highly intelligent. The biggest populism is Religion. You tell people simple things they like, but have nothing to do with the truth. Moth governements are little populistic, cause they have to attract stupid people. It would be better for all to pay more taxes, but this is an unpopular opinion, so nobody dears to tell the truth. Ask for smart people is ok, but blaming the governement for people beeing stupid is going too far. This would only work in dictatorships, cause in democracy you have the freedom to be stupid.
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  4. ​ @fredneecher1746 no, if you say the truth, like 2+2=4, you are popular but not populistic. Populism always needs a hidden lie, mostly in form of oversimplification.
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