populism

Indeed, until the Southern Strategy in the mid-60s, the Democratic Party was the one with the pronounced right-wing populism.

Democracy is fundamentally broken; for example populism and voter ignorance can totally ruin the process.

But they don't like populism, they'd rather governments impose austerity via diktat.

Simple populism and lobbying from local businesses or something else?

I think this is possible without devolving into soundbites or pure populism.

If populism is the focus, why not just do what the US always does and declare War on Space so you can send troops to look for space terrorists?

There is lots of populism going on and it is so easy to get nostalgic about an era you can barely remember but the beer & bread was cheaper than now.

Democracy is a system of government, populism is a strategy for maximizing popularity by appealing to emotions with rhetoric and unrealistic proposals, and pitting a group of people against another group.

Since I can see where you are going with this, yes, the notion of populism does require the politically incorrect idea that not everyone is perfectly rational, intelligent and well informed.

Edit: And maybe another law about how frequently they tend toward populism that ends up alienating the silent-majority of their audience setting up a feedback loop as they strive to even greater monetization despite a decreasing audience.

Anti-intellectual neo-populism has set its sights on those changes for almost 200 years, and today the enemies of the Enlightenment can be found across the political spectrum, from the post-modern Left to the populist (and equally post-modern) Right.

The main takeaways were that (1) Argentine was rich, but lagged behind its money-peers in human development indexes such as literacy rates and (2) The elite from Argentina benefited from high food prices, so the rest of the country resented them, a brewing pot for populism.

The whole meme that "Democrats are moderates and Republicans are extremists" is just an attempt at pushing populism into the mainstream.

I think it's hacking organizations like Anonymous that steer away people from "justice" hacking into populism hacking.

So you know that people want jobs and a growing economy, and when they actually vote for something else, it is "crafty populism." Demagogues and uneducated voters are real but separate problems.

Tsipras turning this into a "fundamental democratic issue" (his words) is the most shameful populist trick in the book." This ("shameful populism!") is kind of just another way of saying "I don't like this democracy thing.

Populism, emotions and who can make most noise wins over any rational nuanced debate.

Populism in utterly corrupt Greece is not an example of functioning democracy.

Populism that leans in favor of your political views is a form of power, because there is power in numbers, and while it's not absolute power, it's still corrupts, just not absolutely.