Populism is a fake word. Right wingers just know how to harness popular sentiment. They also are really good at manufacturing consent and leeching onto existing sources of collective power (see evangelicals).
There exists, in reactionary politics, a disfigured and evil collective formed in the loins of hierarchical oppression that the liberals refuse to acknowledge and the fascists feast on.
The "far" right is allowed to harness popular sentiment. Their message is allowed to be broadcast because capitalists are the ones spreading it, because it doesn't harm them. The right-wing that is less reactionary isn't allowed and doesn't want to harness popular sentiment, because they'd have to actually act on it and it would show their true face and contradict their whole purpose as 'controlled' opposition.
Exactly, I kinda glossed over that with the "disfigured and evil collective formed in the loins of hierarchical oppression" bit. The right's appeal to the collective is an appeal to the status quo and the mythos of the active superstructure. It's not one that seeks to overturn that superstructure and modify the base relations to the means of production.
Democrats speak meaningless truths in their cherished civil discourse and lie in intent and attitude, conservatives can lie in broad daylight which is the honest reality, the honest attitude of our politics and it lends itself to popular sentiments
It's just a word that doesn't actually have meaning. It's double speak that attempts to equate communists and fascists by demonizing anyone who acknowledges that humans exist outside of television and spreadsheets.
It's a thought terminating cliché that flattens two very important things that everyone should understand as separate.
I think that's too far. it doesn't need to have a positive or negative connotation. 'harnessing popular sentiment' is a thing that happens, as you agree, so let's make a word for it.
when republicans appeal to "real americans" or whatever bullshit, that's populist compared to liberals' appeals to meritorious individuals.
Populism is a fake word. Right wingers just know how to harness popular sentiment. They also are really good at manufacturing consent and leeching onto existing sources of collective power (see evangelicals).
There exists, in reactionary politics, a disfigured and evil collective formed in the loins of hierarchical oppression that the liberals refuse to acknowledge and the fascists feast on.
The "far" right is allowed to harness popular sentiment. Their message is allowed to be broadcast because capitalists are the ones spreading it, because it doesn't harm them. The right-wing that is less reactionary isn't allowed and doesn't want to harness popular sentiment, because they'd have to actually act on it and it would show their true face and contradict their whole purpose as 'controlled' opposition.
Exactly, I kinda glossed over that with the "disfigured and evil collective formed in the loins of hierarchical oppression" bit. The right's appeal to the collective is an appeal to the status quo and the mythos of the active superstructure. It's not one that seeks to overturn that superstructure and modify the base relations to the means of production.
Is there another meaning to 'populist?'
Democrats speak meaningless truths in their cherished civil discourse and lie in intent and attitude, conservatives can lie in broad daylight which is the honest reality, the honest attitude of our politics and it lends itself to popular sentiments
It's just a word that doesn't actually have meaning. It's double speak that attempts to equate communists and fascists by demonizing anyone who acknowledges that humans exist outside of television and spreadsheets.
It's a thought terminating cliché that flattens two very important things that everyone should understand as separate.
I think that's too far. it doesn't need to have a positive or negative connotation. 'harnessing popular sentiment' is a thing that happens, as you agree, so let's make a word for it.
when republicans appeal to "real americans" or whatever bullshit, that's populist compared to liberals' appeals to meritorious individuals.