• timestatic@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    I’m not speaking about the U.S. with its screwed electoral college and first-past the post system. I’m speaking out of the perspective of a German where we have a strong representative democracy with rampant populist parties having major influence in politics due to the amount of people that vote for them.

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      2 months ago

      rampant populism is a symptom of capitalists controlling the process through money. my country is exactly the same through us influence.

      of course different countries different circunstances, but changing around the players of the game barely changes anything if we don’t strive to change the game.

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        2 months ago

        Populism is existent in every democracy. It does not solely stem from capitalism. People like hearing simple answers to complex problems which doesn’t work.

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          2 months ago

          far right populism, which is the one we are contending with in the world right now, is a capitalism thing.

          who else would finance an agenda that almost exclusively benefits big capital?

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            2 months ago

            Not only do capitalists promote right wing populism (because as you say, it doesn’t challenge capital), they similarly squash left wing populism.

            Look how many progressives were primaried out recently in the US because of their anti-genocide stance and other leftist values.

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            2 months ago

            Far right nationalism doesn’t benefit capitalism the way you think it does. Do you have any evidence to go off of that big corpos are actually pushing far right agenda. In germany in Saxony for example the medium sized companies are running ad campaigns against far right extremism since we rely on immigration and skilled labor from abroad since we don’t have enough people to fill all the jobs ourselves. No immigration would literally hurt the economy. I don’t know what you’re on about.