Thought the sub might **love** this one since aside from saying the obvious in “down with slopulism”, it also says the following:
>The report concludes that “the system is rigged mindset is among the strongest and most pervasive we’ve seen in American culture.” It stimulates a public appetite for dramatic if obscure change; 61 percent say “our society needs to be radically restructured.”
>There’s no consensus behind what that means in practice. Populists chant the “system is rigged” mantra to portray themselves as truth-telling rebels fighting nefarious elites. But rather than inspiring Americans to demand concrete and achievable reforms, these political Bravehearts keep voters in a perpetual state of rage against whoever is in power.
Which is just a fancy way of saying, *populism doesn’t actually want power, it just wants to critique power*
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Thought the sub might **love** this one since aside from saying the obvious in “down with slopulism”, it also says the following:
>The report concludes that “the system is rigged mindset is among the strongest and most pervasive we’ve seen in American culture.” It stimulates a public appetite for dramatic if obscure change; 61 percent say “our society needs to be radically restructured.”
>There’s no consensus behind what that means in practice. Populists chant the “system is rigged” mantra to portray themselves as truth-telling rebels fighting nefarious elites. But rather than inspiring Americans to demand concrete and achievable reforms, these political Bravehearts keep voters in a perpetual state of rage against whoever is in power.
Which is just a fancy way of saying, *populism doesn’t actually want power, it just wants to critique power*