Carbajo-Núñez Martín ,
Popular Politics vs Populism» (13.04.2023) (15),
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Blog Accademia Alfonsiana, 15 (2023) p. 2
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The encyclical Fratelli tutti devotes the fifth chapter to “a better kind of politics, one truly at the service of the common good”. In line with Guardini’s polar opposition, Bergoglio had already stated, in 1989, that good politics “helps to recover the horizon of synthesis and unity of a community: horizon of a harmonization of interests.”
Politics must properly manage tensions between the particular and the common good, between personal and collective identity. It is based on social friendship, “combines love with hope and with confidence” (FT 196) and, therefore, seeks dialogue and consensus. On the contrary, populist politics is reduced to “slick marketing techniques” (FT 15), forgets the common good and uses confrontation to achieve its selfish goals.
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