Timeline for Why is populism seen as being negative or bad?
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| Jan 10, 2020 at 3:55 | history | edited | Rain Willow | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 12, 2017 at 18:08 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @benshepherd: "I never realised that was the purpose of a saucer!" Because it isn't. | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 21:30 | comment | added | Paŭlo Ebermann | Hmm, the figure says "upper" for the Senate and "lower" for the House – wouldn't this mean that the Senate is the cup? | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 9:44 | comment | added | user2338816 | Of course, the fundamental purpose of the Senate was significantly weakened by the 17th Amendment, bringing Senators about as 'close' to the People as Representatives are (closer in seven states perhaps). Since then, "popular" (not necessarily 'populist') Senators have been much more common. | |
| Feb 10, 2017 at 13:48 | comment | added | Genli Ai | @DCShannon it's not about cooling the tea inside the cup (you want our tea to stay hot); it's about handling your hot cup of tea, standing, while mingling with other people during your five o'clock. you place it on a saucer, and you handle the cool saucer to support the full cup's weight only using the cup's handle for additional balancing. | |
| Feb 9, 2017 at 15:40 | comment | added | TripeHound | Populism suggests emotion over reason to many To me, it more suggests fickleness ... Unless the populous votes on every issue themselves (as partially happens in Switzerland), you elect a representative whose views (you hope) are reasonably closely aligned to yours. To me, a populist representative (when used negatively) is someone who too freely changes their views -- more to stay in power than to be a more accurate "mirror" of the populous. Of course, rigid adherence to views that don't reflect the populous can be equally as bad. | |
| Feb 9, 2017 at 2:28 | comment | added | muru | @Dai there are places where people pour the tea from the cup to the saucer to cool it. Hot tea might be nice, scalding hot, OTOH, not so nice.. | |
| Feb 9, 2017 at 2:03 | comment | added | DCShannon | @Dai If the cup is hot, and the saucer is not, then the saucer will cool the cup and therefore the tea. I agree that that's normally the main reason I'm using one. | |
| Feb 9, 2017 at 1:03 | comment | added | Dai | @benshepherd The saucer serves the same role as a coaster: to catch tea dribbles - it does not serve to cool a cuppa - that would defeat the point of a hot cup of tea! I think this is a bad analogy. | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 16:17 | history | edited | Rain Willow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 8, 2017 at 14:59 | comment | added | CptEric | really good answer. another good example, @rougon , would be Alexander Lerroux, one of the worst prime ministers of Spain back in the early XX century, that ended sacked by his own party due to the repeatedly demagogue campains he organized (and his inhability or lack of will to do anything about them). | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 14:51 | comment | added | benshepherd | I never realised that was the purpose of a saucer! (And I'm from the UK, where we're traditionally good on tea-related stuff.) | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 13:54 | comment | added | rougon | Historically, demogogues/populists like Cleon (ancient Athens) and, more recently, Andrew Jackson, caused a lot of social and political chaos. | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 13:20 | comment | added | user9790 | Good, traditional answer | |
| Feb 8, 2017 at 8:58 | vote | accept | ryan G | ||
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| Feb 8, 2017 at 7:18 | history | answered | Rain Willow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |