They love forms of populism that encourage all the turkeys to vote for Christmas, as we can all witness in the way corporate media are desperately promoting a fauxpatriotic neofascist party in Britain, the party that gave us the Brexit-powered impoverishment of millions of British families.

Markets love certain kinds of populism. If it's far right, like Farage or Trump, they seem to enjoy it.

They are afraid of these things you might do because they know they would work, ad perhaps people would then support further changes. It could get inconvenient.

I'll think about them but I will levy the same level of care they levy towards me, towards the small and medium businesses, the environment and the economy they constantly steam roller over all the time to convert a sickengly high level of wealth in to a sickengly higher level of wealth

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I think what he's describing here (40 seconds in) is what he means by populism.
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Useful context, for those who don't watch The Simpsons where this un-named female crowd character regularly turns up to plead "Won't somebody please think of the children?"

We're thinking of little else as we struggle desperately for our and other species' survival

Fascism is capitalism’s safety valve

This archive link should be readable

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The problem is not at all having wealthy people but having a superwealthy class of people, millionaires, billionaires, who skew our societies wealth and priorities in their own often antisocial, environmentally destructive interests.

Go raibh míle mhaith agat...GRMMA...that's Irish for thanks very much! I'll pass it on...and bring her to the next meeting!