ravi wrote:
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> But I am not aligning myself with populist beliefs -- I am (to use
> the supplied word) just plain populist. My dictionary says of
> 'populist':
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> a member or adherent of a political party seeking to
> represent the interests of ordinary people.
*As soon as you use the nonsensical phrase "ordinary people" you are a bigot of some sort, & "pseudo-populist" is as good a label as any for the variety of bigotry. The label implicitly denies full humanity to a huge proportion of the human species who don't fit someone's private belief of what it means to be "ordinary."
And it pisses me off royally. Otherwise I could mostly sympathize with the arguments you have been offering.
Carrol