<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489476912402_32390">Dear Empyreans,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489476912402_32631"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489476912402_32632"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</div><div style="text-align:justify;line-height:17.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;tab-stops:270.0pt" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489476912402_32639"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489476912402_32640" lang="EN-GB">Simon
writes “What I wonder about Populism is what the Left can do with it. It really
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wants to do without it.” I wonder with you, Simon, and also hear much of what
you’re saying in this thread and on your blog. I think populism is a question
of convincing and of deeper aspects of *pure* one person one vote democracy vs
other systems. Voting blocs, complex social systems such as the US. Electronic voting
machines. Who ets to vote, etc. All the political discourse that comes out in
the course of a day, tied to other texts and the mythic element in what’s being
said. Thinking popular – population – civilization – education. The internet
has changed the way elections are carried out, wone, lost. It seems to me that
populism today or talking about populism today you have to consider what an
electorate, a big group of people, is, their preparation, education. Not that
those following this listserv don’t already know but a basic idea can be gathered from this
link </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489476912402_32521"><<a href="http://www.russellsage.org/research/chartbook/percentage-population-select-countries-bachelors-degrees-or-higher-age" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489476912402_32451">http://www.russellsage.org/research/chartbook/percentage-population-select-countries-bachelors-degrees-or-higher-age</a>><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489476912402_32511" dir="ltr">Looking for more information like this and new ways to analyze. Best wishes to all, William<br></div><div id="yiv3589224528"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489476912402_32372"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489476912402_32371"><div id="yiv3589224528yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489476912402_28257"><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>