Eric Blair: "popularism [defining politics down to poll-watching] trains leaders to check with polls before governing..." pretty much!

Eric Blair protecttruth.bsky.social · Feb 4
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Eric Blair protecttruth.bsky.social
"popularism [defining politics down to poll-watching] trains leaders to check with polls before governing..." pretty much!
- Jake Grumbach jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Feb 3
  This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
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Eric Blair protecttruth.bsky.social · Feb 4
"reject any efforts to lead" I went further: popularism means assuming public opinion is fixed, and that it in large part arises from wanting to keep the status quo intact
- Eric Blair protecttruth.bsky.social · May 25, 2025
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  they reject any efforts to do actual politics, to lead, to shape public opinion. On many issues the polls are misleading because people are poorly informed. Popularism (“status quo-ism”) rejects efforts to educate.
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