"Populism" Is DEAD....

I'm here to declare "populism" is dead. While it was an attractive thing for an uneducated me and a very desirable thing, it has definitely run it's course for me personally. The main subjects seen in this video are Saagar Enjeti and Kyle Kulinski because they are the main representatives of so called "populism", with Kyle Kulinski representing "left populism" and Saagar Enjeti representing "right populism".

The issues with populism:

1) Relies on an Argumentum Ad Populum Fallacy. That is, whatever is popular is the best policy. This is of course not true. There are many other reasons why a policy may be popular. This is a common fallacy, typically used by those who are advocates of popular things, such as Drake's music or Avengers movies or the like, much due to the lack of ability to make quality based arguments and instead go the fallacious quantitative route.

2) The average man does not have the required education/knowledge to make policy on what will cure their ailments. Certainly their expression of what their ailments are is valuable. But is the average man the one to cure those ailments? When one goes to the doctor with their symptoms, do they then cure themself? Or is it the doctor that prescribes the cure to their ailment? Unfortunately, due to the nature of having to work nonstop weeks barely making ends meet and putting food on the table, the average man is unable to garner the knowledge and training required to learn what policies would best fix their issues. In fact, the only reason democracy really works is because of "information shortcuts" or "heuristics", in which those who are not highly informed or educated copy those who are and in doing so emulate a highly aware voter the same way a super nintendo emulator emulates the super nintendo.

3) Education is completely devalued. This means that all the people who spent all the time to learn about political science, economics, etc are completely useless. This is hugely problematic, as education is actually so important it's even a virtue in and of itself. In fact, that's the biggest thing the working class is deprived of. That's what we should be striving to get the working class, not to devalue, demonize, or minimize the impact of education. Yes, having an education, a degree, a graduate degree gives someone more weight and certainly must be respected because they have actually learned a lot of information that pertains to the actual issue.

The rest is also covered in this video. But from here on out, I am definitely not a "populist". I don't blindly agree with whatever is popular. I analyze the issue, come to my own opinion based on my knowledge/working faculties and then take an opinion. In other words, I don't support medicare for all because it's popular, but rather because it's the policy that best implements the 3 first principles of goals of 1) ensure everyone, 2) bring costs down, 3) maintain the best healthcare quality possible. And medicare for all delivers on all three. I don't support it because it's the most popular policy position. That's ridiculous.

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