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In reply to the discussion: Could America's Socialists Become the Tea Party of the Left? [View all]Spy Car
(38 posts)15. In the history of human civilization when populist movements have come to power...
violence, repression, and often political mass-murders have followed.
Populism leads to authoritarianism or totaltalitarianism every time.
There is no ideology more violently opposed to liberalism than populism.
The Democratic Party is a modern liberal party that has stood against populism from the time of the great anti-populist Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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very true. People keep wanting to pretend otherwise. Fox also had a huge role in astro-turfing it
JCanete
Oct 2017
#20
Populism need not be "irrational political extremism", it can instead be proposing substantive
Voltaire2
Oct 2017
#11
In the history of human civilization when populist movements have come to power...
Spy Car
Oct 2017
#15
well perhaps, but it was also a genuine right wing populist political movement.
Voltaire2
Oct 2017
#13
Wanting more social programs to help people is a radical idea! It's just like wanting more
jalan48
Oct 2017
#23
...and you believe that a basic standard of living can be derived in a capitalist economy?
brooklynite
Oct 2017
#34