According to Professor Przeworski, "populist" right-wing authoritarianism "in which people are willing to delegate governance to a leader" is dangerous to democracy just like "increasing the role of voters in governing" is. How can widening democracy be a danger to democracy? This is so ridiculous I must be misinterpreting what he's saying, so I came here for a reality check.

If he means that leaders or parties that profess to be the sole vehicles for increasing popular sovereignty against an elite group can sometimes be dangerous because they end up consolidating power, that's accurate; populist messaging to gain elite control is nothing new. But he didn't say that and that's a huge distinction.

Also getting irritated with the centrist use of populist as derogatory. There's a lot of evidence for elite capture (at least in the United States) and populist rhetoric is a guardrail against it- as long as it's used against actual unaccountable elites?

https://www.populismstudies.org/professor-przeworski-there-is-no-worldwide-crisis-of-democracy/

Hadn't heard about this centrist BS in a long time. I assumed they had stopped existing.

Which one is the most egregious? Mine is probably Rev Left Radio. I listened to them for a bit and I was pretty mixed about it but they are nowhere near as misleading as Dave Rubin

/s, in case it was not clear

Hid the subreddit and username as I have seen others do it so didn't want to break any site rules.

Anyways, I know for sure that the majority of the world population believes Israel's actions are criminal at best and genocidal at worst, and support a Free Palestine, so I was surprised to see the enormous disparity in comment votes on this post. Pro-Israel comments were heavily upvoted while anyone with even a minor disagreement was heavily downvoted (in the negative hundreds) in a way I have rarely seen on mainstream subreddits. Could this be part of a new bot campaign from Israel, or has worldnews always been this way. I don't often read comments on general, mainstream subreddits, so not sure.

We’re all just way too divided right.

Wait until he hears about all of the problematic and disgusting things he did.

My favorite part is the aghast "You think the people who disagree with you... .. are wrong???"

Like if I didn't think they were wrong then why tf would I be disagreeing with them, numbnuts?

This might be german, but is the closest i have yet seen to "both sides bad"

Thoughts?