Random ramble bubble

RRB #1 : The global rise of populism around the world

Hi!  I hope all of you are doing well,  and I hope that you had a great week!
I'm starting a new thing,  the Random Ramble Bubble (RRB for short) ,  and this is the first issue. 

TODAY'S TOPIC : GLOBAL POPULISM RISE

So,  populism seems to be on the rise lately with some manifestation on different countries around the world.

Ever since the brexit,  it seems that the new cool things to do was,  to politely put it,  find a scapegoat and just mash a metaphorical brick,  made of deliberately biased and biggoted arguments,  straight into it's forehead.

Let's take some examples :

-The brexit : it's the first big example of widespread populism and scapegoating (is that even a word?)on this list,  and one of the most important.  The UK started to think that the EU was not really helpful to them,  and they had to pay a shit ton of money to the EU, without any direct benefits from it.  So they had a vote where the option to leave the EU won. 

First things first : how does leaving the biggest economic alliance in the world can benefit you, from an economic point of view?  It's seems a little counter intuitive to quit the EU because it's expensive and it doesn't benefit you directly, when leaving the EU basically cost you a lot more than the price of staying in the EU! 

Second point : Is there a problem with the EU?  Yes,  and a lot more than just one problem!  It's a flawed system,  but it's the best thing we have at the moment.  The way the EU function is sometimes very weird and complicated, yet the EU made peace in Europe possible and helped a lot of countries to grow .  To summarize,  yes,  there are flaws in the system,  and yes,  you can criticize it and not agree with some of the things the other members voted for. But in the end,  the balance seems quite heavy on the EU side.

It seems that the UK didn't really wanted to exit the EU,  since they might do another vote to invalid the first one!  So my guess is that there where issues in the UK that where deliberately linked to the EU,  in order to make the system look bad,  creating a scapegoat. Racial discrimination, immigration issues are one of the few issue that might have been used a a pretexte for the vote.  "Since we've been in the EU there have been a lot more of *insert racial discrimination here*,  so let's blame theses wankers! " (I know my impression of the Brits is quite good isn't it?) 
Well,  it's more complex than that.  Although it's clear that the open borders inside of Europe allow much easier traveling ,  there are more immigrants because of other reasons,  most likely war,  starvation ,  disease, and ISIS.  Who wouldn't flee thoses things?

My point is,  you picked the right issues,  I don't want to sound like I deny the existence of thoses issues.  But you picked the wrong way to deal with thoses issues,  by scapegoating.  This create an ecosystem were you can only do something by outdoing the guy before you.  So it escalates and the goes out of control,  we will see that in the second example

-Donald Trump election :

I just couldn't leave him out of this,  could I? His election and he himself is just a dream come true to any analysist. 

Donald Trump was elected after a campaign of massive thrash talking , which demonstrate how populism works,  and why it's so devious. 
Donald trump announced out right that he didn't care about political correctness,  and how what he wanted was result. He took in consideration the ones that felt left behind by more traditional politicians, those that were worried about a lot of different,  and valid,  issues.  And he fed them a miracle pill : "it's because of *the Mexicans,  China, illegal immigrants, drug dealers... *! "  The reality,  however, is much different than what he said. 

Populism needs a large amount of people before it starts to damage humanity.  At a local level it's pretty harmless.  But when it starts to impact an entire country,  there's an issue!
As a result,  some of Trumps ideas might bring terrible consequences to the world we inhabit (Paris climate change agreements,  for example)...

So what have we learned about populism ?  Well three main points are to remember :

-it feeds of the fear of people,  it needs an issue that wasnt cleared by any other method (illegal immigration, violence...) .  it then need to find a scapegoat to spread  ( an ethnic group,  a rival country...)

- it's harmless and almost invisible locally, but devastating at a larger scale

-it doesn't work long term,  this has been proven by every fascist state that existed (hi mussolini! )

It might be just beginning,  I suggest to pay attention to the Brazilian election,  something interesting might happen. 

Now : what do I think of this? 

To me,  regardless of your political stance,  it seems like playing with fire : in the end,  your gonna get burned! 
It's the easy way to satisfy the people about very complex problems that shouldn't be resolved in a rush.  As such it can't really fix the issue,  hence why populism delay  the realization that it didn't do anything by constantly scapegoating. 
"This group was the problem.  The problem is still there?  Then it's this guy's fault.  Still there?  It must be China then! "

This can't work longterm, and ruins the world we live in.  I think we should always think about what goes where before jumping straight into the thick of the problem. 

Hey!  I hope you enjoyed this RRB!  If you did and want to suggest anything,  feel free to comment!  The more comments I get,  the more feedback I have,  the better thoses RRB should be! 
Also,  I apologize for my terrible English,  i'm working on improving it!