re: How do you love democracy and hate populism simultaneously?

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Wouldn't know it by your lackluster writing abilities.

Maybe you're brilliant but you suck at communicating

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FWIW, I know he’s smarter than you are.

You’re a simpleton who adds nothing here but insults.

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Look up “the French Revolution.”

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Point taken, but the counterpoint that comes to mind immediately is that there’s just no realistic or accurate comparison to be drawn between 1800 French “mob” and a 2023 American “mob.” We’ve “evolved” as a society, particularly in modern day, first world America, beyond medieval type revolutions. And no I don’t actually mean to say the French Revolution occurred in the Medieval period of history, only that the common tactics and practices were “medieval.”

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We must save our democracy by defeating populism.

That’s the argument in a nutshell from the TDS infected. It makes no sense.

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I agree unless you specify liberal democracy, which I think is usually implied in that sort of argument.

You realize that in a democracy .... a true democracy, all your rights and money can be taken away if it is popular with 50% +1 ?

That's why I go for the republican style of government ......everytime. It protects me (and you) from populist idiots.

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y is that there’s just no realistic or accurate comparison to be drawn between 1800 French “mob” and a 2023 American “mob.”

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BLM is an example, though it was 2020.

Populism is just another identity group that wants to topple the "elites."