This may seem a strange thing to say: Democracy isn't actually about finding out what the people want and just trying to do it. Democracy is about setting out a vision and a plan for the country and persuading people to follow it.
This may seem a strange thing to say: Democracy isn't actually about finding out what the people want and just trying to do it. Democracy is about setting out a vision and a plan for the country and persuading people to follow it.
I really hate how the word populist is used.
Simple fact, if an opinion is popular. Completely ignoring it is anti-democratic.
If as a leader, you think it is a bad opinion. Convince the voters of that. That is after all your job as a leader of a representative democracy.
When "populist opinion" is used to encourage an idea to be ignored entirely. It clearly paints your political opinion as non-democratic.
Far too many of our politicians seemed to have forgone the importance of convincing the public to follow there lead.