[zooq_ai]

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[game_the0ry]

No, good policy that benefits a wide group of constitutes instead of a few key donors is how you counter populism.

Lobbying makes it worse bc the response (populism) will have credible grievances, which is why you will see populist candidates all over the west.

[whimsicalism]

so-called “deliverism” as a cure to populism has empirically not worked very well.

actual material changes do very little to defuse populist cultural moments in modern wealthy societies

[kjkjadksj]

The people handing money to lobbyists in washington are the same people funding these misinformation campaigns that brainwash the populace.