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Emeritus Prof Christopher May
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

John Burn-Murdoch (FT) argues that one key political development in the last decade or so is the rise of 'Zero-Sum Politics';

As gains in the standard of living for most voters have stalled, politicians has become focussed on redistribution.

There have always been parties on the Right & Left that have been anti-system & focussed on groups who have been blamed for inequality, but Burn-Murdoch's point about Zero-Sum politics becoming more mainstream seems right!

#inequality #politics #populism

When economic growth is weak, upward mobility becomes limited, meaning gains really are more likely to come at another’s expense. This describes the past two decades almost perfectly. Per capita economic growth across the west has averaged less than 1 per cent a year since the financial crisis, down from more than double that in the previous three decades and triple before that. The conveyor belt of generation-on-generation economic progress has slowed to a crawl and everyone is looking accusingly at the person a few steps ahead or the one joining the line half way along.
When economic growth is weak, upward mobility becomes limited, meaning gains really are more likely to come at another’s expense. This describes the past two decades almost perfectly. Per capita economic growth across the west has averaged less than 1 per cent a year since the financial crisis, down from more than double that in the previous three decades and triple before that. The conveyor belt of generation-on-generation economic progress has slowed to a crawl and everyone is looking accusingly at the person a few steps ahead or the one joining the line half way along.
When economic growth is weak, upward mobility becomes limited, meaning gains really are more likely to come at another’s expense. This describes the past two decades almost perfectly. Per capita economic growth across the west has averaged less than 1 per cent a year since the financial crisis, down from more than double that in the previous three decades and triple before that. The conveyor belt of generation-on-generation economic progress has slowed to a crawl and everyone is looking accusingly at the person a few steps ahead or the one joining the line half way along.
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

John Burn-Murdoch (FT) argues that one key political development in the last decade or so is the rise of 'Zero-Sum Politics';

As gains in the standard of living for most voters have stalled, politicians has become focussed on redistribution.

There have always been parties on the Right & Left that have been anti-system & focussed on groups who have been blamed for inequality, but Burn-Murdoch's point about Zero-Sum politics becoming more mainstream seems right!

#inequality #politics #populism

When economic growth is weak, upward mobility becomes limited, meaning gains really are more likely to come at another’s expense. This describes the past two decades almost perfectly. Per capita economic growth across the west has averaged less than 1 per cent a year since the financial crisis, down from more than double that in the previous three decades and triple before that. The conveyor belt of generation-on-generation economic progress has slowed to a crawl and everyone is looking accusingly at the person a few steps ahead or the one joining the line half way along.
When economic growth is weak, upward mobility becomes limited, meaning gains really are more likely to come at another’s expense. This describes the past two decades almost perfectly. Per capita economic growth across the west has averaged less than 1 per cent a year since the financial crisis, down from more than double that in the previous three decades and triple before that. The conveyor belt of generation-on-generation economic progress has slowed to a crawl and everyone is looking accusingly at the person a few steps ahead or the one joining the line half way along.
When economic growth is weak, upward mobility becomes limited, meaning gains really are more likely to come at another’s expense. This describes the past two decades almost perfectly. Per capita economic growth across the west has averaged less than 1 per cent a year since the financial crisis, down from more than double that in the previous three decades and triple before that. The conveyor belt of generation-on-generation economic progress has slowed to a crawl and everyone is looking accusingly at the person a few steps ahead or the one joining the line half way along.
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Tjeerd Royaards
Tjeerd Royaards
@royaards@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Europe in danger?

#MAGA #Europe #EuropeanUnion #populism

Cartoon showing a house labeled 'EU'. A sign  in front reads: 'Renovating Europe - Populism Inc., with logos of various European populist parties. Inside, on the ground floor, workmen are using jackhammers to break the pillars that hold up the first floor, where EU politicians are having a meeting. They are sitting around a table, while a screen shows the text 'Today's meeting: is Europe in danger? A large crane with a wrecking ball, with Trump behind the controls, is approaching the house.
Cartoon showing a house labeled 'EU'. A sign in front reads: 'Renovating Europe - Populism Inc., with logos of various European populist parties. Inside, on the ground floor, workmen are using jackhammers to break the pillars that hold up the first floor, where EU politicians are having a meeting. They are sitting around a table, while a screen shows the text 'Today's meeting: is Europe in danger? A large crane with a wrecking ball, with Trump behind the controls, is approaching the house.
Cartoon showing a house labeled 'EU'. A sign in front reads: 'Renovating Europe - Populism Inc., with logos of various European populist parties. Inside, on the ground floor, workmen are using jackhammers to break the pillars that hold up the first floor, where EU politicians are having a meeting. They are sitting around a table, while a screen shows the text 'Today's meeting: is Europe in danger? A large crane with a wrecking ball, with Trump behind the controls, is approaching the house.
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Aaron
Aaron
@hosford42@techhub.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

The US is ranked #6 in the world for extreme income inequality. That's right. You can literally count on one hand the countries that do it worse than us.

You want to know why one of the wealthiest countries in the world (when looked at in aggregate) is disintegrating before our very eyes? That's the reason.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/10/where-in-the-world-are-wealth-and-income-most-unequal

#WorldInequalityReport
#IncomeInequality
#WealthInequality
#Inequality
#GINI
#USA
#Populism
#Oligarchy
#Plutocracy

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Aaron
Aaron
@hosford42@techhub.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

The US is ranked #6 in the world for extreme income inequality. That's right. You can literally count on one hand the countries that do it worse than us.

You want to know why one of the wealthiest countries in the world (when looked at in aggregate) is disintegrating before our very eyes? That's the reason.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/10/where-in-the-world-are-wealth-and-income-most-unequal

#WorldInequalityReport
#IncomeInequality
#WealthInequality
#Inequality
#GINI
#USA
#Populism
#Oligarchy
#Plutocracy

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Tjeerd Royaards
Tjeerd Royaards
@royaards@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Europe in danger?

#MAGA #Europe #EuropeanUnion #populism

Cartoon showing a house labeled 'EU'. A sign  in front reads: 'Renovating Europe - Populism Inc., with logos of various European populist parties. Inside, on the ground floor, workmen are using jackhammers to break the pillars that hold up the first floor, where EU politicians are having a meeting. They are sitting around a table, while a screen shows the text 'Today's meeting: is Europe in danger? A large crane with a wrecking ball, with Trump behind the controls, is approaching the house.
Cartoon showing a house labeled 'EU'. A sign in front reads: 'Renovating Europe - Populism Inc., with logos of various European populist parties. Inside, on the ground floor, workmen are using jackhammers to break the pillars that hold up the first floor, where EU politicians are having a meeting. They are sitting around a table, while a screen shows the text 'Today's meeting: is Europe in danger? A large crane with a wrecking ball, with Trump behind the controls, is approaching the house.
Cartoon showing a house labeled 'EU'. A sign in front reads: 'Renovating Europe - Populism Inc., with logos of various European populist parties. Inside, on the ground floor, workmen are using jackhammers to break the pillars that hold up the first floor, where EU politicians are having a meeting. They are sitting around a table, while a screen shows the text 'Today's meeting: is Europe in danger? A large crane with a wrecking ball, with Trump behind the controls, is approaching the house.
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Paul Houle
Paul Houle
@UP8@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

✊ Gen Z anger at ruling elites is erupting across the world

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/05/world/gen-z-anger/

🆓 https://archive.ph/ycNJv

#politics #globalsouth #genz #corruption #populism #youth #protest

The Japan Times

Gen Z anger at ruling elites is erupting across the world

There has been a surge in Gen Z demonstrations in Africa and Asia against aging leaders and corruption.
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Paul Houle
@UP8@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

✊ Gen Z anger at ruling elites is erupting across the world

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/05/world/gen-z-anger/

🆓 https://archive.ph/ycNJv

#politics #globalsouth #genz #corruption #populism #youth #protest

The Japan Times

Gen Z anger at ruling elites is erupting across the world

There has been a surge in Gen Z demonstrations in Africa and Asia against aging leaders and corruption.
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Tjeerd Royaards
Tjeerd Royaards
@royaards@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Elections in the Netherlands next week, and the extreme-right populist party will likely be the biggest (again)... Cartoon from last year.

#populism #hate #lies

Cartoon showing a giant old-fashioned mixing machine, with the brand name ‘Populism’. The actual mixer is in the shape of a swastika, and it is turning a brown substance in a bowl shaped as a giant head. Geert Wilders, Meloni, Le Pen and Bardella are standing around the bowl, adding ingredients from jars and boxes labeled ‘Hate’ and ‘Lies’, while one of them is looking at a recipe for voter manipulation.
Cartoon showing a giant old-fashioned mixing machine, with the brand name ‘Populism’. The actual mixer is in the shape of a swastika, and it is turning a brown substance in a bowl shaped as a giant head. Geert Wilders, Meloni, Le Pen and Bardella are standing around the bowl, adding ingredients from jars and boxes labeled ‘Hate’ and ‘Lies’, while one of them is looking at a recipe for voter manipulation.
Cartoon showing a giant old-fashioned mixing machine, with the brand name ‘Populism’. The actual mixer is in the shape of a swastika, and it is turning a brown substance in a bowl shaped as a giant head. Geert Wilders, Meloni, Le Pen and Bardella are standing around the bowl, adding ingredients from jars and boxes labeled ‘Hate’ and ‘Lies’, while one of them is looking at a recipe for voter manipulation.
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Tjeerd Royaards
Tjeerd Royaards
@royaards@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Elections in the Netherlands next week, and the extreme-right populist party will likely be the biggest (again)... Cartoon from last year.

#populism #hate #lies

Cartoon showing a giant old-fashioned mixing machine, with the brand name ‘Populism’. The actual mixer is in the shape of a swastika, and it is turning a brown substance in a bowl shaped as a giant head. Geert Wilders, Meloni, Le Pen and Bardella are standing around the bowl, adding ingredients from jars and boxes labeled ‘Hate’ and ‘Lies’, while one of them is looking at a recipe for voter manipulation.
Cartoon showing a giant old-fashioned mixing machine, with the brand name ‘Populism’. The actual mixer is in the shape of a swastika, and it is turning a brown substance in a bowl shaped as a giant head. Geert Wilders, Meloni, Le Pen and Bardella are standing around the bowl, adding ingredients from jars and boxes labeled ‘Hate’ and ‘Lies’, while one of them is looking at a recipe for voter manipulation.
Cartoon showing a giant old-fashioned mixing machine, with the brand name ‘Populism’. The actual mixer is in the shape of a swastika, and it is turning a brown substance in a bowl shaped as a giant head. Geert Wilders, Meloni, Le Pen and Bardella are standing around the bowl, adding ingredients from jars and boxes labeled ‘Hate’ and ‘Lies’, while one of them is looking at a recipe for voter manipulation.
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Didier Ruedin
Didier Ruedin
@druedin@sciences.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Call for papers: Immigrant Exclusion and Solidarities in Times of Polarizing
Societies, SSA Conference 2-4 September 2026 in Fribourg, Switzerland; papers by 10 November 2025. https://www.sgs-sss.ch/de/forschungskomitees/migration-minderheiten/ #c4p #call #sociology #migration #Switzerland @sociology #migration #immigration #polarization #Solidarity #exclusion #populism #socialCohesion #belonging #qualitative #quantitative #experimental

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Tjeerd Royaards
Tjeerd Royaards
@royaards@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Populist voting machine. English version of my Friday cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

#populism #migration #xenophobia

Cartoon showing a large machine labeled "Populist Voting Machine." On one side of the device, angry voters are placing their ballots into a glass ballot box. This box hangs from a steel cable, connected by pulleys to a slider that closes off a cage containing two large dogs with sharp, bared teeth. As the ballot box contains more votes and thus becomes heavier, it pulls the slider upwards. A group of anxious-looking Muslims and migrants stands in front of the slider.
Cartoon showing a large machine labeled "Populist Voting Machine." On one side of the device, angry voters are placing their ballots into a glass ballot box. This box hangs from a steel cable, connected by pulleys to a slider that closes off a cage containing two large dogs with sharp, bared teeth. As the ballot box contains more votes and thus becomes heavier, it pulls the slider upwards. A group of anxious-looking Muslims and migrants stands in front of the slider.
Cartoon showing a large machine labeled "Populist Voting Machine." On one side of the device, angry voters are placing their ballots into a glass ballot box. This box hangs from a steel cable, connected by pulleys to a slider that closes off a cage containing two large dogs with sharp, bared teeth. As the ballot box contains more votes and thus becomes heavier, it pulls the slider upwards. A group of anxious-looking Muslims and migrants stands in front of the slider.
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Tjeerd Royaards
Tjeerd Royaards
@royaards@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Populist voting machine. English version of my Friday cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

#populism #migration #xenophobia

Cartoon showing a large machine labeled "Populist Voting Machine." On one side of the device, angry voters are placing their ballots into a glass ballot box. This box hangs from a steel cable, connected by pulleys to a slider that closes off a cage containing two large dogs with sharp, bared teeth. As the ballot box contains more votes and thus becomes heavier, it pulls the slider upwards. A group of anxious-looking Muslims and migrants stands in front of the slider.
Cartoon showing a large machine labeled "Populist Voting Machine." On one side of the device, angry voters are placing their ballots into a glass ballot box. This box hangs from a steel cable, connected by pulleys to a slider that closes off a cage containing two large dogs with sharp, bared teeth. As the ballot box contains more votes and thus becomes heavier, it pulls the slider upwards. A group of anxious-looking Muslims and migrants stands in front of the slider.
Cartoon showing a large machine labeled "Populist Voting Machine." On one side of the device, angry voters are placing their ballots into a glass ballot box. This box hangs from a steel cable, connected by pulleys to a slider that closes off a cage containing two large dogs with sharp, bared teeth. As the ballot box contains more votes and thus becomes heavier, it pulls the slider upwards. A group of anxious-looking Muslims and migrants stands in front of the slider.
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Paul Houle
Paul Houle
@UP8@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

🪧 Opposition to energy transition projects driven by local concerns rather than right-wing populism, finds study

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-opposition-energy-transition-driven-local.html

#politics #germany #environment #energytransition #nimby #populism #climatechange

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Paul Houle
@UP8@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

🪧 Opposition to energy transition projects driven by local concerns rather than right-wing populism, finds study

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-opposition-energy-transition-driven-local.html

#politics #germany #environment #energytransition #nimby #populism #climatechange

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