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Originally Posted by GGG
I think you miss the second component of populism. A key point in populism is anti-elitism. It isn’t just look at how good these policies will be for the people. It’s look at the current group serving only the elites our policies will be for you the people.
Creating the enemy of “the elite” is the key component in any populist movement.
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Agreed... to a point. I don't think you really have to make an enemy of the elite to be a populist, but you definitely need to ensure that two points are front and center of your policy:
1) Anyone lucky enough to be born into the elite, or to luck into becoming super rich, are paying a significant amount of taxes. These people likely only got to become rich because of the opportunities that our society provided them and most of their money likely comes from the people and/or resources of our society.
2) Ensure that the super rich people are not able to apply pressure or influence on government through their wealth to gain unfair advantages over regular people. (Essentially the opposite of what the UCP is doing as they are actively enabling gifts to politicians and donations / bribes from corporations)
If said rich people fight against these guardrails of democracy and try to push for oligarchy then, ya, treat them like enemies and hire teams of people to ensure that audits are performed and everything stays above board.