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I don't see how, given their answers to simple questions as described in the "2026 run up to the elections" section, this party could ever be considered a leftist party.

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Maybe the issue is that mapping political ideologies onto a 1-D line doesn't work if you have more than two distinct ideologies.

Nah, it works, it's just a higher level of political abstraction, but we still tend to use left and right because those words seem to be accurate enough to be worthwhile.

We could use something like the political compass, but on that model we still tend to ignore the authoritarianism axis and just say everything to the left is the left and everything to the right is the right. Left is progressive, right is conservative.

I'm not sure you understand what abstraction means.

They are very pro education. But that's basically the only thing, all the other answers are enthusiastic right wing answers

How populist party can root for education? Educated people wouldn't go in populist direction. Of course, it the education stays unbent to their views

They are far too small to have any chance of influencing education. The simpler explanation would be that there is a strong nationalist current. Think "our people are the best, let's make them even better and throw out the others"

Why wouldn't educated people be swept up by populism? They're human like the rest of us. Maybe you should stop thinking that having an education makes you a moral person, it just means you have an education.

I just assume that once people start seeing how the dots connect in some areas, they will be able to quickly see that the populists' dots are all over the place. I believe the educated populist are only the ones that try to drive move, not participate in one.

Because populists can say they are "For" something and just not do it. Their supporters largely won't check the results.

Same reason why US republicans say they are the party of fiscal responsibility despite being directly responsible for most of the debt of the US

> Educated people wouldn't go in populist direction.

Depends on "education".

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