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Originally Posted by White Fox
Yes, exactly. Just like Hitler thought that the Weimar government was controlled by monied interest Jews and that he had to mobilize the German people to over throw them and put him, the voice of the people, into power.
This is exactly the kind of thing conservatives want to prevent, and that is exactly why that kind of "majority rules" only is dangerous.
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Conservatives do not try to prevent populist movements from emerging. They ignore the warning signs both real and imagined, then do whatever is in their power to quell them.
Unfortunately this is the political equivalent to the government attempting to prevent all recessions.
Dismissing the people's fears that elite interests are holding too much of the power is counterproductive and only leads to the festering of the wound. Especially when there is a fragment of truth in the populists' fears... as their usually is.
Conservative governance seems to be about ignoring these fears and attempting to gloss them over.
Unfortunately much of modern liberal governance seems to be about capitalizing off of those fears. I can't say that's any more noble.
The fact of the matter is that these things must be addressed, the truth seperated from the fiction and action taking place that helps to restore legitimacy- preferably through fixing the real part of the fear... not through propaganda and oppression.
The right-wing has only been pretending that all populist fears are delusional, countering it with propaganda, and allowing business to go as usual. That is not preventing anything.