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posted by on Wednesday March 29 2017, @10:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-one's-leaving-until-we-have-unanimous-agreement dept.

The rise of populism has rattled the global political establishment. Brexit came as a shock, as did the victory of Donald Trump. Much head-scratching has resulted as leaders seek to work out why large chunks of their electorates are so cross.
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The answer seems pretty simple. Populism is the result of economic failure. The 10 years since the financial crisis have shown that the system of economic governance which has held sway for the past four decades is broken. Some call this approach neoliberalism. Perhaps a better description would be unpopulism.

Unpopulism meant tilting the balance of power in the workplace in favour of management and treating people like wage slaves. Unpopulism was rigged to ensure that the fruits of growth went to the few not to the many. Unpopulism decreed that those responsible for the global financial crisis got away with it while those who were innocent bore the brunt of austerity.

2017 Davos says: The 99% should just try harder.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @11:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @11:06PM (#486235)

    There was no hypocrisy or cognitive dissonance. The gist was "we should all get along, but I don't know how to get there because I would like other people to not do x y and z."

    No, I wrote what I did because it was self-contradictory, the assertion was pure projection and meustrus (with no sense of self-awareness) had identified himself as the problem. You do not build a dialogue or hope to arrive at consensus by engaging in ad-hominem, the cult of leftism* has forgotten this.

    * Disclaimer: I'm a social liberal and will no longer even debate IRL with people who behave like this.