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Diamond Boy's avatar

May I add: if you are starting to realize that the old left right divide no longer seems to make sense maybe you should watch Fox and listen to a Trump rally and see what your erstwhile enemy has in common with you and your new sensibility.

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Kathryn W's avatar

Definitely! Populist unity above all else, party politics is irrelevant at this point as im sure u realized

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Feral Finster's avatar

The "Establishment" vs "Everyone Else".

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Diamond Boy's avatar

Populist is a difficult word, it is a pejorative foisted on us as a disparagement by them that chatter, our betters, them that accrue to themselves the right to arbitrate truth.

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Fraoch's avatar

Well aa dinae consider masel as yin o yer "betters" and aa understand the term "populist". Hitler ws a prime example o' a populist, promisin the people whit they wanted tae hear. Jobs food and an a better economy etc etc etc. Make Deutschland great again blah blah.

Soonds familiar tae me.

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Diamond Boy's avatar

Trump as Hitler

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Fraoch's avatar

Aa never daid that. As used his tactics as an example. If ye had ubderstood the chaos o Veimar Germany nd the effect o Hitlers populist messages.

Boris Johnson is anither example.

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Kathryn W's avatar

But i personally think being for the people means being anti racist which obviously hitler is not

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Fraoch's avatar

Trump isnae "for" oanybody but himself.

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