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Kimmo Huosionmaa
Why populists get people to the streets, is the question, what is always interested about sociologists and political investigators? Those persons, who are mentioned as "populists" are normally some kind of different than so-called "regular politician". Those people have strong opinions on any problem in the state. They use language, what makes them seem like "real working-class people", who would be met in some bars. They always find something to say about every situation, and of course, the reason, why people would have no job or they have bad salary is coming from outside of the borders. They protect the regular people and they have strong values of the things, what is dear for this person and the followers. Of course, real populists are always people's choice, as you can see from the poster of the presidential campaign of the USA from the year 1904, what is above the text.
Of course, the new political movement would always be mentioned as the "populists" or aggressive right-wing nationalists. The populists have the great eye for talking everything, what people want to hear, and pleasing the biggest group of people is the most important thing, in the life of populist. This person separates from the mass, and they have the simple solution for every problem. That is foreigns out from the country, that every person in the nation, would get jobs. Of course, universities must be made paid, because that would guarantee the studying places for the people of that nation. In this case, there we can find some things, what are forgotten. First, what kind of jobs is that populist promising to the people?
Are they some cleaners or hotel piccolos jobs, and what kind of salary is paid for those works? And the second one is, where normal person, whose parents are not wealthy persons would get money for studies? Of course, the children of bosses are always people, who would have money for paying the studies, but that will isolate those persons from regular people. The populists have always answers to those questions. They would say, that if somebody doesn't have parents in the top place of business life, they would not have the chance to get any position in the business life, and that means that they would not be needed in those universities. And why regular people need to pay those studies? Populists have always the ability to make feel like in rock concert.
Their followers would sway the flags, and burn the torches like in some football match, and those people keep others away from the sight of their idol. And this is the worst weakness, what populists have. They would see only persons, who really like their speeches, and sometimes they would get many votes, but when they would get the seat of the prime minister or president, would the cold realities show their faces.
Many populists promise new jobs in the police or military forces, what are of course the important part of the state and public safety. In the real life, the police- and military forces are very expensive part of the state. Those persons, who work in those organizations must get their payments, and if the line with speeding tickets and another kind of things is very tight, would the state give very large part of the incoming money to those organizations.
Because if the speeding ticket is very expensive, people would start to avoid driving, and other things, where the punishment will be the ticket. This is the very sad thing because police and army are the very important thing in the independent state identity and protection of its own territory. Any nation would not have money for everything, what they would need, and same money would be needed for defense, police work, rescue service and education system.
This makes the economy of the state so complicated thing. And nobody wants speeding ticket. This is also the truth and the persons, who make decisions, how to deliver money must know that. But also traffic police makes very important work, by hunting the persons, who drive after drinking too much. That is another way to see the work of the police. But the police can also be used to hunt the political enemies. And here I must say that violence is the bad way to handle populists. They want that somebody would use the weapon against them because those actions would make them seem more patriotic. And if their followers would die, they will turn as martyrs.
If somebody treats them, they would publish that, and after that, this kind of actions would give them more followers than ever before. The best way to act against them is, to let them go in the power of the nation. There they must make their decisions about freedoms and another kind of things. And then people would see, can they really solve the problems of that nation. if they can they have earned the trust from people, but if they fail, would there be next election abut the ruler of the nation.
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