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5 Website Secrets Your Political Opponent Doesn't Know - 9 views

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    5 Website Secrets Your Political Opponent Doesn't Know
john desh

Obama to appeal to public on fiscal cliff - 0 views

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    The White House said Tuesday that the president intends to hold a series of events to build support.
D. Wayne Moore

Should Prayer Be Allowed Back In Our Public Schools? - 0 views

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    Many people believe that the decline of our public school system is due to the Government's decision to remove prayer from the classroom.
D. Wayne Moore

does Life Begin At Conception? - 0 views

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    This is the single most important question in the abortion debate as far as the right-to-lifers are concerned. For them, it is a no-brainer.
D. Wayne Moore

Should Obama Appoint an African-American Woman to the Supreme Court? - 0 views

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    One of the last racial barriers existing in America is an African-American woman on the Supreme Court. Many people think that it's time to shatter it.
Arabica Robusta

Populism and the enchanted world of 'moderate politics' | openDemocracy - 1 views

  • I essentially question the epistemological flaws surrounding the uses of the notion: when is it safe to call a politician, a political party or movement ‘populist’?
  • The stakes are high because to label someone as ‘populist’ is to imply that s/he is somehow a potential or real enemy of representative democracy. My critic refers to the ‘pernicious effects’ of populism which underlines the notion’s very negative connotation. Let me here reply to Catherine Fieschi’s major criticisms.
  • Cas Mudde, one of the major specialists on the subject, concedes that populism is a ‘thin-centred ideology’.
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  • According to Michael Freeden’s ‘morphological analysis’, an ideology has its own ‘ineliminable’ core of values exercising control, with logically and culturally adjacent concepts that are further connected to peripheral concepts.
  • To point out that populism does not have the depth and sophistication of a political ideology is in no way an attempt to suggest that this is a ‘wishy-washy’ notion, even less to ‘to discourage analysts’, let alone ‘to bamboozle democrats’ as Catherine Fieschi alleges. No, it simply means testing the epistemological merits of the notion in order to reveal its heuristic limits.
  • In the 1930s, millions marched behind the banners of Fascism and Communism. Today, no one would die for a populist cause. Populism is no ideology simply because it offers no positive worldview. It is just a means to an end, a device to appeal to the masses.
  • Think for a moment: aren’t those amorphous policies of ‘mainstream’ parties responsible for their rising unpopularity and their decreasing credibility? Why should political scientists uncritically use the media clichés about ‘reasonable moderates’ opposing ‘undemocratic radicals/populists’?
  • It is a fact that populists thrive on ‘wounded’ democracies. But ‘wounded’ democracies are imperfectly run polities, where economic inequalities are dire, and where the elites have often broken their promises. Thus let’s not forget who provoked the ‘democratic fracture’ in the first place. Why do some political scientists seem oblivious to the fact that the ‘moderates’ who let down their electorates are mainly responsible for their own demise?
  • Again, the task of the political scientist should not be to condone or condemn this state of affairs, but to try to understand why people feel so disenfranchised. Consequently, the researcher should tackle and discuss the policies which make those populations suffer. Unfortunately, this is not something which most political scientists seem in the least concerned about. ‘Not to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand’ said Spinoza. Before looking down on the disoriented and angry voters who fall for the demagogues or dismissing all ‘radicals’ as undisputed ‘populists’, it would indeed be worth pausing for a moment to understand how those agents feel and to ask what they want. Political scientists should also wonder why more and more ‘moderate’ voters no longer believe in the enchanted world of ‘moderate politics’.
Joe La Fleur

Department of Justice Assigns 5 Prosecutors to Retrial of Roger Clemens but None for Bl... - 0 views

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    RACIAL FAVORITISM FROM A CLEARLY RACIST ADMINISTRAITION
Joe La Fleur

Merkel ally says - 0 views

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    Muslims do not recognise the sovereignty of the countries that they live in. A muslims only loyalty lies in ISLAM, American Muslims do not recognise the USA.
Joe La Fleur

Flattering Obama | MRCTV - 0 views

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    How much does the liberal media love Obama?
Joe La Fleur

ALFC Appeal Taxpayer Funded Sharia Finance Ruling - Atlas Shrugs - 0 views

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    AMERICAN TAX PAYERS FUNDING ISLAM Hey Democrats...what happened to that seperation of state stuff?
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