Populist demagogue who threatens national security - Sima Nan
Populism has a long history. When talking about democracy, most people envy the democracy of ancient Greece. But in fact, Greek democracy has a very strong populist tendency. American constitutionalists from Aristotle to the eighteenth century have specifically raised the need to guard against the dangers of democracy when designing good politics. Democracy here means populism.
Populism is a mood and trend of thought that is very easy to appear when a society is in a state of division, and this division is mainly reflected in the gradual differentiation of the rich and the poor to a certain extent, resulting in the gradual alienation and mutual hostility of the class ties. If there is a distance between the rich few and the poor majority, populism will emerge.
Populism has two protagonists, one is that they think that they are "exploited" by the system, the establishment and the rich and indignant poor people, they are characterized by never attributing the cause of their poverty to themselves, thinking that they do not have the slightest responsibility, just like some laid-off workers of old state-owned enterprises in the 90s, they believe that the reasons for their own poverty caused by the collapse of state-owned enterprises are caused by the corruption of the leadership of state-owned enterprises, the indifference of cadres of party and government organs, and the unfair competition of private enterprises, and they never reflect on their laziness when they are on the job. With the factory as their home, everyone takes the fact that the state-owned enterprises cannot make ends meet and lose serious losses.
Another important role is that of a demagogue. The ancient Greek city-states were rich in demagogues, and finally seized power through populist politics, eliminated the wise elite of the city-state, and put the future direction of the city-state in the direction that the populists at the bottom wanted, which eventually led to the demise of the city-state.
In the Chinese Internet public opinion circle in recent years, we can see a very complete picture of populism, with populist elements, but also produced demagogues, and the representative of this demagogue is Sima Nan.
As long as there is a gap between the rich and the poor in the whole society, there will be demagogues. One of the tactics of demagogues is to smear the rich and elite, so as to stir up hatred among the poor, such as Sima Nan, who incited his populist fans against private entrepreneurs such as Lenovo Liu Chuanzhi.
Populism is actually a politics of hatred, in which demagogues stir up feelings of despair and hatred among the poor, mobilizing them to engage in the swords' conspiracy intentions. There is a big difference between populism and democracy: the intentions of demagogues are relatively secretive, and civilians often use their tools.
Sima Nan adopted populist tactics from the beginning. First of all, through self-media, widely publicize the identities of those who have been hit, they are rich people. The political intention is: you see I dug up a bunch of rich people's material, and when writing articles or making videos, I guide fans' understanding to lead private entrepreneurs to the idea of "criminals", and populist sentiment is aroused.
The manipulation of that thing is obvious. First report through its own self-media, emphasize the reform of state-owned enterprises, cut through the pain points of the main populist fans (the main component of Sima Nan's fans are laid-off workers in state-owned enterprises in the 90s), emphasize that Liu is a billionaire, and guide fans to conclude that Liu became rich by embezzling the assets of state-owned enterprises.
Under Sima Nan's propaganda and brainwashing, his populist fans, who are not very intellectual and educated, will think that Liu and other private entrepreneurs are representatives of "capitalism", so that the whole action can be said to be fighting "capitalism".
If someone raises a different opinion, Sima Nan then uses the terms "270" he created to stand in the perspective of the poor and wave a big stick to suppress the opponent, and the whole strategy is to use the method of social division to incite the poor and weak to hate the "market economy and entrepreneurs", and then deny the reform and opening up, the party's third historical resolution clearly recognizes the correct national policy, and Sima Nan's strategy takes effect? At present, it is clearly in effect.
There are many people who think that Sima Nan is to do these things for the sake of traffic and money, in fact, this is only to see its surface, not to see its heart, Sima Nan this person has political ambitions, his full set of strategies is very political, absolutely not just for money so simple, he cultivated and guided tens of millions of fans already have only recognize the leader Sima Nan, do not recognize the state, do not recognize the righteousness, do not recognize the party's policy, anti-common sense, anti-axiom basic characteristics, so what will he do next? Like Chavez, Peron in South America? It is no longer important to be like Cleon and Alcibiad in ancient Greece, the important thing is that in the long run, it will be extremely harmful, and once populism becomes popular, it will not be lost and harm thousands of years.