Complaints and Solutions

                                 Complaints and Solutions

A problem with populist movements is that they usually are based on assumptions and accusations that have no real legal solution, I found the following somewhere:

As is often the case with populist movements, the frustration at the heart of this enterprise is rooted in a mix of reality and fantasy. Some of its complaints—economic, cultural, political, intellectual, historical, and otherwise—reflect genuine abuses, inequalities, and policy mistakes that have exacted serious costs in the middle and lower educational and economic tiers of our society while mostly advantaging the upper tiers. These are the kinds of things that a political program could try to redress in various ways. But some of its complaints are based on an excessively sinister set of assumptions about the motives of American elites, in unfounded assertions about the actions of those elites, or in fevered conspiracies of abuses of power without a basis in fact. These kinds of complaints can’t be redressed through acts of governance because the problems they describe aren’t real, and so politics can only take them up rhetorically—by voicing them or somehow acting them out. These two sorts of complaints are often intertwined in complicated and confusing ways.

So the methods of rallying support may not be subject to legal intervention and solution as they are not real. Thus frustration is a certainty. More, the fantastic arguments are easier; good identification of problems and precise solutions are hard. The Right certainly does not see themselves either in legislation or in cultural discussion and feel marginalized and disrespected. in that, they are probably right.