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Populism: Flirting with Disaster

Post author By G
Post date Feb 10, 2026
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Populism gains traction by pointing at real pressures: housing stress, cost-of-living anxiety, cultural dislocation, institutional distance, a sense that no one is steering. These are not imagined problems. They are the very real conditions that make people receptive to blunt answers and strong voices. The tragedy is that the tools populism offers to address these […]

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Disability is not an edge case that happens to someone else. It is a statistical certainty built into biology and time. Unless a life ends early, bodies age, systems degrade, injuries accumulate, genetics express themselves, and cognition changes. This is not moral failure or personal deficiency. It is physics. Entropy at the level of lived […]

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