Quote Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars View Post


It isn't a conspiracy theory. It's politics. Political parties adopt and push policies they think people want. That's just how the system works, which is why I see populist parties as an important pressure bloc to force major parties to adopt policies that they need to adopt, but not as parties that will realistically gain power, for better or for worse.

EDIT: You contradict yourself. If a party was populist then it wouldn't represent the views of only a small portion of the voters.
Populists claims they represent the "common man". In reality, they only represent a small portion, as every single election result has shown. The majority in this country, for example, vastly favour social democracy. Lower taxes, less government and no immigration simply isn't what the majority of this country wants, only some 20% of us want that.