The trend of populism in politics

I know it's of no use to submit something political in such a blog as this one mostly doing with hobbies. But the present situation in politics, mainly of the Prime Minister Abe's behavior, is too terrible.

He controls all the three powers of the nation by himself even though he is only the head of the administration as well known. It has been done through abuse of his power over personnel affairs. To establish rule by his own power, he is going to assign a person who obeys anything for him to the position of the attorney general. In Abe's administration, a lot of politicians, mainly of the ruling party, have committed political crimes like giving illegal treatments to the electorates or receiving bribery from various companies etc. Most of them have not been accused since the prosecutor's office is on the side of the administration. When the great yes-man to the Prime Minister takes the position of the attorney general, P.M.'s ruling would be completed.

In the other countries, we could see the same kind of politicians as our P.M. are ruling their countries. They are invariably products of political populism. Their policy is closely related with ultra right extremism with hatred toward minorities or misogyny. They bring discrimination in the society, either domestic or international. They seem to energize themselves with such negative enthusiasm of supporters.

How could such a politician get power in politics? Why would the voters support such a politician? It should be investigated from various aspects of society and/or politics. It seems like a trend in the history and may take sometime to understand what is going on right now. At least, what I could say on this issue at present is that negative or destructive energy comes from deteriorated emotion and intellectuality of people. Such populists are only reflecting such change in the society even if not mentioning of the ill effects of the mass media and the internet on stereotypical idea formation of populism.

I am much concerned about this problem. It may be involved with the life of the next generation.