Constants and variables 110, Unheard treefall edition
A few days ago Antichrist Bergoglio sang the Golden Oldie about Hitler.
Hitler was a populist, therefore all populists are Hitler.
NOBODY NOTICED.
To be sure the media are full of This Week's False Flag, but the media are ALWAYS full of This Week's False Flag. That's constant. Normally they find a little time to spray a firm anti-localist statement by a major fashionable leader. Just a year ago every single TRUMPHITLER eruption by Bergoglio was repeated and amplified by the demons.
Now silence.
This Golden Oldie is prima facie bad logic. Replace the names if it's not obvious. Elvis was a man, therefore all men are Elvis. Coffee is a liquid, therefore all liquids are coffee.
Below the simple failed logic, the implied correlation is instantly disprovable. Aggressive globalists sometimes say populist things on their way to full power, but this is rare. Most aggressors sound like aggressors from the start. Even in the narrow context of the 1930s the correlation doesn't work. Look at Hitler, FDR, Stalin, and Mussolini.
Hitler sounded populist at first, then switched to aggressive globalism.
FDR sounded populist and STAYED populist. All of his actions were STRICTLY in line with populist principles. Clamp down on the rich, advance the poor in your own country, don't start wars.
Stalin didn't sound populist but also applied the same principles, with way too much unnecessary violence. Stalin was NOT an imperialist.
Mussolini had been a populist in the 1910s, but by the time he took power he was openly imperialist.
Four entirely different patterns and trends. No correlation. The only CONSISTENT populist was FDR, and he didn't start wars or run pogroms.
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Later: Perhaps Bergoglio is conflating Populism and Nationalism. We need a different type of logic to deconflate these terms.
There are three main categories. Populism, Nationalism, and Imperialism.
Nationalism is simply a focus on the nation or ethnicity, which may be inward-turning (populist) or aggressive (imperialist.)
Populism means that the government is STRICTLY devoted to the welfare of ORDINARY PEOPLE WITHIN THIS NATION. A populist government is tautologically nationalist, thus fully inside the nationalist circle on the Venn... but this doesn't make it aggressive. Exactly the opposite. Serious populists have always
EMPHASIZED that warmaking destroys the warmaker. A nation that focuses its efforts on war will necessarily neglect its own people, leading to internal chaos and crime and poverty.
Imperialism means that the government is STRICTLY devoted to conquering other nations, with no attention to the welfare of its own people.
Imperialists sometimes use the name of a nation, such as Germany or USA, but they are always based on a crazy idea like "Aryan supremacy" or "democracy" or "human rights". This would be the shared area on the Venn diagram.
Bergoglio's cohorts are imperialists WITHOUT A NATION, devoted to conquering and destroying the world PURELY for a THEORY. Rome itself is the most perfect prototype. EU, UN, IMF, WTO, and other modern acronyms are also aggressive conquerors based on an IDEA, not on a NATION or ETHNICITY. These occupy the unshared right side of the Venn.
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