2016 has been billed as many things…one of which was the election of the rise of populism…..Americans are just pissed they would not know a populist from a vegan…….
Many of the issues that the campaigns have used to excite the people are pure populism….the Brookings Institute has issued a paper about populism….
The Brexit vote has unleashed a huge amount of commentary on anti-establishment politics, the failure of experts, the abdication of the left, and much else. Juxtaposed to the presidential campaign in the United States, Brexit is regarded by many as a wake-up call.
In response, former US Treasury Secretary and former president of Harvard Larry Summers is calling for “responsible nationalism” to counter the often chauvinistic, anti-immigrant, and protectionist language of the populist right. It would be “understood that countries are expected to pursue their citizens’ economic welfare as a primary objective but where their ability to harm the interests of citizens elsewhere is circumscribed.” We would judge international agreements “not by how much is harmonized or by how many barriers are torn down but whether citizens are empowered.”
Source: The case for constructive populism
The American people are pissed….but will they actually do anything to change their pissitude?
After watching the political process for 50 years I can safely say….NOPE!
This silly process will continue along the lines that it has traveled for over 240 years…..a worthless waste of time and energy.
Good morning chuq..
I have just read the article and failed to much sense of it at all…
Since I am opposed to globalization and anyone telling me to live ‘in harmony’ for the betterment of mankind…..
.I wonder how much these people, namely academics, are paid $$$£££ for this ‘type’ of article which is a load of gobbly gook ..and more to the point…What is their agenda? Brookings?
My feelings this morning state that I am suspect of anything that states united this or united that..
The case for constructive populism…. lasting alliances and friendships will be built around shared democratic (hahaha..wots that mean?) values and support for human rights………yeh right…
Much like this ….
Developing countries embrace green finance policies as part of wider effort to finance the real economy and meet social, economic and environmental needs
Green finance policies inspired by new models such as developments in fintech
US$5-7 trillion a year needed to implement the Sustainable Development Goals
As for Sustainable Development Goals…..highly suspicious.,,trigger word for me which means …I do not buy it.
Love and peace….
*wink*
Morn my friend…populism is trend these days…just wanted to let others know about the beliefs and the ideas…..
bugger trends…;)
Pokemon sez huh?
Bro, the entire conversation is merely another distraction. The pundits spend time trying to “make things clearer” by minutely discussing the appropriate labels, in excruciatingly tedious detail, all just to decide what to call everyone;s justifiable anger at being manipulated. Lady P is correct to dismiss the whole thing as unpalatable, for it is nothing more than more cotton candy for the obese non-thinking TV addicts who are paying all the bills for the elite….
Populism, nationalism, ism, shmism… it’s all just talk, meaning nothing…. If people are convinced they are confused.so much the better for the ones pulling the strings…
gigoid, the dubious
Tell that to the voter….they have to have a tag for everything they do…sad is it not? chuq
Pathetically so…. all that wasted potential, which will never be utilized…
Oh, well…. All you can do is all you can do…
gigoid
I type therefore I mumble….chuq
*grin*
Hi Chuq,
I saw this article on project syndicate. In a way it’s positive, since the think-tank crowd are now openly recognizing that their overall program (or vision or whatever) isn’t going as planned. May be 10-20 years too late, and I can’t help but wonder how sincere the intentions are behind this rebranding or whatever it’s supposed to be, but at least there is that recognition that the neoliberal program is not working.
Larry Summers’ “responsible nationalism” bothers me a bit. Coming from Summers, I take “responsible” to mean conservative, meaning pro-status-quo, not necessarily conservative on social issues, and corporate-friendly. So a conservative, corporate friendly nationalism sounds … vaguely fascist? In a slippery slope kind of way.
So “constructive populism” from Brookings is better in that at least. If I take what he said at face value, he is describing the Sanders campaign. Basically he is saying, I think, that if Hillary doesn’t adopt some of Sanders’ positions, she has a good chance of losing to Trump. I take “constructive”, again, to mean pro-status-quo, meaning that proposals which are massively popular but “politically impossible”, such as limiting the influence of the TBTF financials, would be watered down.
Everything about Summers bothers me…..I keep reading more and more about the Bernie people NOT voting for Hillary…..I think Dr. Stein will get a boost but it is early for much accuracy….chuq
Americans, as a whole, do not really engage in any true form of Activism or Civil Rights engagement. The last time the Nation was forced into action … well that was set off when Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on the bus. Now that sparked a movement of EPIC proportions. Since then … maybe KENT STATE but that’s about it.
I am hoping the loss by Sanders will spur on some protests and such….we will see…I gues
Nah, Dr. Jill Stein maybe but the BERNOUT not likely.