Re:Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy
by rayiner on Sunday May 04, 2025 @05:49PM
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So by that logic both democrats and republicans are populist parties, because neither is willing to propose the hefty middle class tax increases, or entitlement cuts, that are mathematically necessary to balance the budget (much less to fund additional programs). Do I have that correct?
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Potentially - it's not like a strictly defined term. With mainstream political parties you'd more often think about specific policy areas than the whole business.
I’d respectfully submit that the reason it’s not well defined is that it’s a pejorative deployed by the establishment in both the left and the right to disparage substantive policies they don’t like, rather than a principled label for a particular political approach versus another.