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   @baileygregory9192

   December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

   Corr democratic principle are still ingored in democratic societies. Look at freedom of speech in the uk were you can uave the police break into your house to steel popular yet controversial laws. Or how fridge beliefs that fall out the overton windows are treated by the state and society , ie tyrany of the masses

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   @IronpenWorldbuilding

   December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

   Right wing populism is very disingenuous. It claims to be acting in the will of the people before stripping away their ability to challenge that notion.

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   @H.H.NotAnExpert

   December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

   I think of popular democracy as just "democracy" and liberal democracy as a balance between "liberty", "democracy", and other considerations.

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   @glenipolus9731

   December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

   depends on the country

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   @kpowers74

   December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

   Ummm, how exactly do you define democracy? Ben Franklin defined it as two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. As for America, we are told that it is supposes to be a republic. No, not like People's Republic of China or People's Republic of North Korea, but it IS getting close. Real close. Love.

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   @njsoapdish

   December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

   This is absolutely nonsense. Read "The People, No" by Thomas Frank for the true history and meaning of Populism. It is about working class rights, not tyrannical power.

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   @MacTheSeraph

   December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

   I’m pretty sure Conservativism isn’t a real word.

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   @spiloFTW

   December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

   you dont pick a side?? wtf you clearly support unlimited mass migration

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   @kurteibell2885

   December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

   I love your programs, but I think you got Populism and Liberalism backward. Populists are fighting to protect speech, the rule of law, and the separation of powers, while liberal elites are eroding those powers. The whole point of populism is to ensure the elite majority do not tyrannize the minority.

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    @ronaldderooij1774

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    Populism is the will of the people? What is the will of the people? And is that a good thing? All questions with ideological answers. There is no truth, just ideologies. Which one wins, is dependent on the times and the personalities pursuing power in those times. It is all very coïncidental. I predict that populism and liberal democracy will fight it out for a long time to come.

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    @justinthyme184

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    Populism – mind candy for the masses (with insuficent education)
    Populism – tool for grabbing power
    Populism – danger to democracy
    Populism – a thing that humanity should ban

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    @user-xx8km3ky3v

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    Although you touch on it briefly with turkey, I do think you forget something that I see in all populist parties in the west: an authoritative leader, with a cult of personality built up around him/her, who speaks to the most base feelings of disgruntled (mostly uneducated) voters. What they do is point at things and say they are bad, but their solutions are widely and rightly debunked by the actual experts/opponents who they then demonize (without actually debunking): "the [expert on subject/political opponent] is wrong(with no proof)/ is working for the establishment/ is a traitor/ should be deported/ should be imprisoned/ should be hung/ etc".
    Besides that: a populist will say anything and do anything just to get attention and power, including but not limited to lying, backtracking, changing opinions on a whim, spinning anything and everything to suit their agenda, changing their agenda, attacking anyone/anything they don't agree with, threatening anyone/anything they don't agree with… all while never actually coming with any evidence.
    Anyone who says "that's all politicians", has been let down by their own system and media, hasn't been alive long enough… or is just stuck in their own echo chamber. There are still good politicians out there. You just need to vote for them.

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    @CesarHILL

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    The problem I see with populism beyond the fact that by rejecting elite it lacks the ambition of keeping a society diverse, is their false promises.

    Populist are precisely the kinda people that would promess everyone a new tv instead of making sure everyone is educated and healthy.

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    @sbiebaut7289

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    While it is a very interesting overview of populism, and the book you mentioned is certainly worth your time, it might be worthwhile to divide the multiple characteristics you mentioned.
    at the end, you described popular democracy as favouring against freedom of the press, rule of law, and majority dictatorship, however, I question whether these are truly characteristics of 'popular democracy'. As I understood it, popular democracy is for a completely free and uncensored press (like Denmark has). These characteristics seem more in line with an authoritarian ruler.
    no doubt that Erdogan is a populist, but also a nationalist and an authoritarian ruler.
    Syriza in Greece is/was a populist party where part of their discourse was against the ruling elite and solutions sometimes felt opportunistic and aimed at pleasing the people. However, these were everything but authoritarian and very much in favour of the rule of law, freedom of the press and otherwise the Tennants of liberal democracy.

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    @HenryLoenwind

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    Sure, let's make it so complicated nobody understands it again. (Yes, that's populist on purpose.) But still, I think populism can be reduced to a single core idea:

    Tell people something that's popular, not something that's realistic.

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    @michelguevara151

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    populism has changed meaning in the last year, it used to mean : political pandering to fool people into voting the government's way, telling what voters want to hear, so that the heat gets turned down, essentially a cynical way of making people think that what ever government is 'on our side'.
    then americans eroneously started using it to describe popular grass roots politics, this is not what the word means, but , hey, if the americans redefine words, then britons are generally too stupid to realize how illiterate even the best educated american is. not for nothing does the phraise, "the most educated ignorant people in the world" exist.
    and since it's mostly americanese on the internet, I now hear britons routinely mispronounce english, as british schools are such a joke that young britons learn from the net and americanese is the result, deefence, instead of defence, eye-rak instead of iraq, carnivoran instead of carnivore. carnivorans instead of carnivorous. I blame lazy american distain for grammar. and idiot politicos that starting with Blair, gradually turned education into qualification for having been present in a given class.
    the proof? tesco having to spend three to four weeks teaching basic reading skills and arithmatic to school leavers that have paper qualifications in subjects they have no idea about, allowing 'alternative spellings', or excusing illiteracy, because we can't hurt some mother's pride in telling her that her child is a functional illiterate that is unemployable, which is what tesco actually adressed the government as the carriers of the blame in dumbing down education. being present in a class earns 40% of final exam marks, that's without writing a word, real excellence that..well worth a GCSE, oh, and knowledge eroded in the name of making sure every one is 'qualified' then there's the GCSE, a lumping together of the old CSE, a piece of paper that essentially states "this child is not very bright and doesn't apply themselves', and the GCE, mainly because employers weren't dunces back then, so they chose to employ only GCE grades 1-4, the fact that a grade 1 CSE is the equivalent of grade 4 GCE meant nothing, so the two were amalgamated to fool employers into hiring morons, which didn't work, it just meant anything under grade 3 was considered a waste of a position. so the next step was to mark coursework, if you had participated in the class, this would add upto 60% of marks in the final exams, (a shame they were allready dumbing people down in the early 80s, afterall, you aren't supposed to compete with those that paid for their education). meaning that being in the class and actually doing some of the course work would earn a grade 3. the aim was to get everyone into university. despite the fact that throughout history, only 20% of people were considered for university. the result? british universities establishing 'remedial english classes to teach litteracy. I remember asking 'how the hell does an illiterate get accepted into university?, but I think I've answered this for you.

    so now we have populism meaning the exact opposite because americans are so politically blind that they don't understand concepts like, 'being taken for a ride by your government'.
    populism is a milksop for naive children.
    popular, on the other hand, means what americans call 'populist', popular politics, not populist politics, can you see the nuance?
    popular, as in what the population wants, and populism, what the government tells you, to shut you up.
    I didn't watch this video, because I know you're not educated to the standards of excellence that british education used to be famous for, and probably babbled about populism being the politics of the masses, as opposed to the opiate of the masses, monotheist religion is the same political subterfuge, especially christianity, be a good slave and pay your taxes to rome and we'll tell a made up god that you are good and you'll go to heaven.
    what does the religion state? 'the meek will inherit the earth". that's populism right there, the meek do not inherit anything, they get trodden into the earth and just take the abuse on an unsubstanciated premis, and the government gets to look like a nice one that cares for people that will not cause trouble, like demanding equality, demanding to be heard, you know, thinking for themselves and asking' what's in it for me?'
    it's one of the reasons governments started to dumb down education originally, if you can't enunciate your political demands, then you you won't be a nuisance and demand your rights.
    and before anyone comments on british educational 'excellence', no state school pupil with top marks can pass GCE exams from the 50's, apparently they're 'too hard', funny, because more poeple got grade 1-3 at the time, CSEs were reserved for idiots and lazy children, at least your woodworking CSE meant you'd get a job. now renamed with the grand title 'design and technology', or, making simple wooden toys, cams, gears, levers, if you get a high score you can be a mechanic ! ooh! we have people with mechanical engineering qualifications that can't diagnose faults, and essentially, nothing gets repaired, things are systematically replaced until the problem goes away.
    here in France it's no better, I earn a little money to augment my retirement by fixing vehicles that have sat in workshops for months only to be returned in the same state as it was delivered, with a bill and excuses, 'I don't have the time' really means , 'I don't have the competence to work out how to fix it.'
    3000 rpm idle? leak in inlet manifold after the butterfly clappet. engine won't turn with a fully charged battery? 'you need to replace your starter motor', actually, just needs stripping and cleaning, carbon brushes wear and fine carbon contamination causes false earths.
    malfunctioning switchgear?, replace, no, strip and clean..
    the legacy of following the american lead, illiteracy and loss of techniques taken as excellence in a world that has language highjacked by political maniacs like feminists and their politically correct newspeak, 'progressives', social justice fascists, making up new dfinitions to grind a political axe that damages societies, no wonder the sexism that is femenism is defined as 'equality', we allready have a definition, the movement for women's rights, note the lack of men's rights, because apparently there's this evil 'patriarchy ' actively hamstringing women and deliberately denying women rights, despite western women being the most privileged demographic on the planet, no man can marry to divorce a woman and take her home, and half her wealth for at least 20 years, no man gets automatic custody of children, no man can get hired on men only shortlists, no man can enter women only clubs, no man can claim child benefits, no man can false claim abuse, no man can get a job in a nursury or creche, or even primary school, stranger danger don't you know, despite 78% of child murders the world over being committed by their own mothers.
    don't fall into the trap of accepting americanese definitions for words, they change them every five minutes and don't even agree with each other's definitions half the time.
    rant over. carry on.

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    @juanvasquez6535

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    the media in the USA tends to use the term derisively (Sanders, Trump) but oft times there are wings of the two parties that use populist rhetoric.

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    @juanvasquez6535

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    I chuckle every time she says "knife crime". I live in the USA.

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    @jesusachmed8645

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    Political Science 101
    Nice video mate

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    @davidcwitkin6729

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    What about the differences between Left-wing populism and Democratic Socialism?

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    @alanrobertson9790

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    In democracies how can populism be used as a negative? Surely the whole point of democracies is that the most popular party gets elected.

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    @iddomargalit-friedman3897

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    Well, that's pretty disappointing.

    You failed to present the counter-arguement:
    Popular democracy only contredicts liberal democracy if the people does not want it. And in that case, nothing can save it.

    So trying to "save liberal democracy from the people" – is either useless, harmfull, or stright up decietfull.

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23. 

    @CountDadLord

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    I'm not sure the heavy emphasis on populist nationalists is fair. Most of the recently politically successful populist movements in Europe, i.e. ones that have actually got elected into power, have been populist-socialist ones like Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain. In the UK we have a populist socialist leader in Corbyn. The populist nationalists have been relatively unsuccessful.

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    @SuperTroloman

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    dat outro tho

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    @charlottejames7908

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    That made my head hurt! Still don’t quite understand what, populism is, and you guys have tried to make it very simple. 🤔🤔

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    @chriswhitenack5446

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    Overlooking the fact that Turkey is a non-secular government rather derails the real why behind the lack of democracy, my friend. ANY non-secular government is going to do away with the common rights of free speech, sexual discrimination and fair voting practices. By their very nature they are stifling democratically- and no, that's not racist, that's factual. Think it through, you two are smart guys.

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    @hoodiewomanlouisiana9816

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    Good presentation. As I expected, I don’t “fit in” anywhere. I’m “Progressive,” US version of “Democratic Socialist,” Pacifist, Constitutionalist, and totally opposed to mainline Democrats and Republicans. Left of “Liberals.” What’s my problem? I believe the FBI/CIA assassinated JFK, Bush/Cheney & etc (PNAC) arranged the 911 assaults, and the US is a rogue Empire that cannot be defeated, & is created to continue profit making world conflicts and wars. Obviously, I’m not an optimist. I try to be a realist.

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    @philip7468

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    All populism does is create a new elite.

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    @lesmup2159

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    Populism = Anything of which the BBC and C4 disapprove.

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    @raghar88

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    What's with the weirdly long pauses?

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    @originaluddite

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    A problem with populists is that they say that 'everyone' agrees with them (for a given definition of 'everyone'). They talk of a 'silent majority' that only they speak for. But how do they know and how can we trust that they know? I've had an argument with a self-declared populist who claimed that populism was nothing more than what is popular (and therefore right). Never mind that many populist parties are minor and rarely win power by themselves. Best to be as skeptical as them as of any other politician.

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    @parisn1fan

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    Can’t believe you bypassed Venezuela and talked about Podemos. Very skewed video.

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33. 

    @SigridKroon

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    Hey, I just want to say you're doing a great job and help me understand what's going on. Only problem is Im from Australia. I saw you were starting doing a US channel, and I wanted to suggest something. Australia is in dire need of a news presence on Youtube and good news and political coverage. I know most of us are UK's ex-con descendants but it would be great to have your style of information on what goes on here

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    @colonelvector

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    Welcome to 2019, where politicians doing what they said they'd do and carrying out the will of the electorate, is somehow now a bad thing.

    If you want to make biased videos that's fine, but you should give up the facade of being neutral

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    @airstrip1836

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    Populism = political movement with support from the common man whose opinions YOU don't like

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    @DTWTheWanderingMuzungu

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    Like the new outro at the end.

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    @kairon156

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    I want to hear about Canadian news.

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    @danielzsombor4698

    December 24, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    Sad to see hungary used now as a benchmark for how undemocratic a country is. Cant argue with it tho

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