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Yeah, it’s called the Democrats and Republicans

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I’m pretty certain he wasn’t just talking about the U.S.

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Especially since the EP elections just happened, and he was speaking in Italy.

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What would a king chosen by his advisory council know about democracy?

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It’s a church, not a nation. What about your boss not being chosen democratically?

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The Holy See isn’t a nation? Are you sure about that? It has sovereignty. What else would it be?

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So many out of touch old powerful white men

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Pope’s Latino bro. Any other reductive comments?

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Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is of Italian descent. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 17, 1936, to Italian immigrant parents.

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Populism is a feature of democracy. It’s just like in life, easy answers, like fast food for example, are always easy to suggest, but in the long term might not be the best. But if you can show your voter base, eating these disgusting vegetables in the long term is going to do everyone good, slight inconvenience, major benefit. So there will always be the power hungry populist that will give easy and popular answers to hard questions, it is the voters duty to determine who has their long term interests at heart and who is able to bribe you with your shortsighted desires to get into power.

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On the other hand, you do need to fuck up education big time, and suck hope out of the people with policies that only benefit the rich for decades for it to be appealing.

In your analogy, people today have no vegetables on the menu, just subsistence amounts of bread and water versus hamberders and cheap beer. And we get less and less bread every year.

People would like veggies, a lot of them, especially kids, but the veggie peddlers are beaten up and driven away by the bread and water people, since literal poison is easier to compete with.

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Is the cancer called ‘any and all religions’?

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We could abolish religion and still have harmful populism.

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It would go a long way to fixing the problem.

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Religion is a human idea.

Human ideas are the problem. You can have ignorant hatred without religion.

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Worth a shot!

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Religion is a human idea.

Human ideas are the problem. You can have ignorant hatred without religion.

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