Demagoguery

Now, true, Madison was concerned about what -- what he called demagoguery, democratic politics that was violating the rights of property in his state of Virginia and elsewhere. ❋ Unknown (2002)

She said sometimes listens to talk radio on her way home from work and is appalled by what she describes as demagoguery that seems designed only to make people angry and fearful. ❋ Weldon B. Johnson (2010)

Now that the office has degenerated into a plebiscitary presidency, this sort of demagoguery is taken for granted. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Advances in demagoguery technology make actually buying off the middle obsolete. ❋ Unknown (2010)

April 9th, 2010 at 10: 18 am wwew says: more brainless demagoguery from the immoral toad that is too dumb to know how dumb he is. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"At a time when anti-immigrant demagoguery is again on the rise, Romántico's close and unsentimental encounter with the life of an undocumented migrant and his family - skillfully rendered in an intimate verité style - locates the real engine of social upheaval in the underlying poverty and insecurity of a transnational economy," writes Robert Avila at SF360. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Political demagoguery is wrong, but half-hearted political demagoguery is just sad. ❋ Unknown (2006)

However, you lost me when you followed the excerpts from Aristotle, Homer and Cicero with, "As such, unfortunately, classic demagoguery is a Democratic/liberal/Marxist trait, not generally a Republican one." ❋ Unknown (2006)

As such, unfortunately, classic demagoguery is a Democratic/liberal/Marxist trait, not generally a Republican one. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The goal of demagoguery is power: “Dionysis established a claim to become tyrant when he accused … the rich, since his hostility to them caused him to be trusted as a true man of the people.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Oh so * that* is where RadicalRacistRoland picked up the word demagoguery and tried to use it in a different posting. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And if this - and, again, I'm going to use the word demagoguery - but if it succeeds in driving Latinos into the arms of the Democratic Party for a generation or more, it's hard to see how the Republican Party is going to win national elections, statewide elections. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Perhaps it's just that I've been more exposed to this election than previous ones so don't know this is just "how it's done", but as someone with a great deal of affection and respect for the US, the Manichaean terms in which both sides express themselves - in a way that goes far beyond "demagoguery" - alarms me. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This kind of passive-aggressive, double-talking demagoguery is exactly what we Arkansans got to know and, well, not love, but at least it’s what we got used to. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Some asshole] shot somebody at a park today and anti-gun demagoguery is already [pouring] in from liberal [politicians]. ❋ LaundryDay (2013)