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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Sure, that is every election everywhere since the beginning of time. Do people want change or not. But that's not really getting to why populism has become so rampant. The question is, why have so many people clung angrily to facile solutions to complex issues. The kind of language and ideas that would've been completely disqualifying 10 years ago gets barely a mention now. Why?
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Probably some combination of the following: A) no solution is even being seriously worked on or addressed by status quo governments because of inconvenient political tradoffs (See: Cost of Housing in Canada - only solution to high prices are policies aimed at lowering prices but since 70% of the public own real estate and many plan to use their unrealized real estate gains as their primary means or significant means of funding their retirements, no serious efforts are being made to de-financialize residential housing stock) B) the complex solutions aren't actually achieving tangible results that people can observe in their day to day lives or C) People's expectations that problems or challenges are actually 'solvable' or within the scope of control of the governments they elect