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Populism is basically about simple solutions for complicated problems, and blaming every problem on a certain group of people.
From the right, the most prominent example is immigrants, while from the left, it's mostly rich people.
Or those problems come from us and they just represent our own flaws, like a good representative democracy should do.
Is the majority of your country really better than its representation?
I am not sure the majority of the country, if they were put in the same position of power, would not do the same.
Because I think the majority of people are easy to corrupt, it takes exceptional people to resist the temptation of an easy life for you and your relatives.
But you agreed most people would do the same in their place, didn't you? So it's a general human issue rather than only rich people's fault, isn't it? Agreed that most democracies are flawed, but I still think social democracy is the best we have for now.
Better track record to avoid rich people, but not to allow general population quality of life and prevention of an authoritarian government. I'll take European social democracy and its rich people over it.
Not all left ideas come from the Soviet or communist China although they participated to the experiments. Most socialist parties in EU split from USSR and communist China from the revolutions or when the economical catastrophes (Chinese famines) or atrocities (military repression of opposition and gulags) they committed were revealed. From then, it split between social democrats and communists, social democrats are simply called socialists in those countries (at least France and Spain).
Apart from Sanders, I think American democrats are very far from European social democrats, they rather correspond to our traditional right, which indeed doesn't care much about rising inequalities. I think the median people live better in European social democrat countries than they ever did in communist countries.
yeah, immigrants really are destroying our planet.