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Description: Too much democracy is a bad thing, according to the state-run BBC, which claims people should respect the authority of elites.
Date: 2018-02-27T17:11:18+00:00

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# State-Run BBC Claims Too Much Democracy Is A Bad Thing

February 27, 2018 Baxter Dmitry News, UK 0

Too much democracy is a dangerous thing, according to a video produced by the state-run BBC, that claims people should respect the authority of elites because “the fervor of populist politics can be truly terrifying.”

The video cites the glorious Brexit vote as the kind of populist movement that must be suppressed in the future. The video also disparages the triumphant election of President Donald Trump and the magnificent French Revolution, in which the people gained rights as citizens and ended the reign of the corrupt aristocracy.

The video also explains that “populist is almost always a pejorative term and no one really wants the label,” claiming that “most populist leaders would rather see themselves as inspiring grassroots movements.”

“Political debate involves reason, science, evidence, challenge, and argument. Free speech and a free press on vital to this,” the narrator says.

“Populists, in contrast, love stirring hearts with rhetoric, aren’t renowned for using reason and evidence and argument, and are keen in dividing the world into ‘us’ and ‘them’.”

> Think populism is a new thing? It definitely isn't! Here's a brief history from @philosophybites
> (More of our A-Z of ISMs 👉 https://t.co/7sjlpCHGKl) pic.twitter.com/Cb4ytEKmHg

> — BBC Ideas💡 (@bbcideas) February 15, 2018

Breitbart reports: The video identifies the English Civil War, the French Revolution, the Brexit referendum, and Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency as populist insurgencies.

“[Populists] are prone to scapegoating journalists, elites, and foreigners, and to conspiracy theories about why the world isn’t as they want it to be,” he says.

“The fervour of populist politics can be truly terrifying,” the narrators continues, citing the French Revolution and the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s idea of forcing citizens to be free as a “chilling warning of where unfettered populism can end up.”

A recent report by the left-wing Tony Blair Institute claimed that the “populist surge” in Europe has far from peaked and is the most significant change to the European order since the end of the Cold War.

Despite being a state-funded, nominally impartial broadcaster, the video provides another insight into the BBC’s general political outlook, with numerous reports confirming that the BBC were heavily biased on the topic of the European Union and Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy.

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