2024-02-21 20:56:27
“The most effective method to fight against populists is not populist vocabulary at all, it is not replacing the promises given to the people with bigger promises. in order to succeed, you need to talk to the public in an understandable language, to form such a public discourse that will form a political agenda,” Hovhannes Nikoghosyan, candidate of political sciences, told the “Objective” program.
“It is true that in today’s media reality, people’s attention is easily distracted, it is difficult to concentrate in the information chaos, which becomes a tool in the hands of populists, but it is also true to say that today’s technologies provide endless opportunities to “reach” voters. It is much easier and less expensive to “reach” a single voter today than it was 150 years ago, and this gives all political currents access to big politics.
It is also important to understand that talking to the public, addressing the public, giving importance to the public is not necessarily seen as populism. In representative systems, a political leader exists only to the extent that he has followers. if he has no followers, he is unlikely to be a leader. In representative systems, it is the multitude of the people that gives them the ability to participate in political processes, to have a place in them.”
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