Advantages Of Populism

Populist system. “Truth is not the first casualty of war alone; it is the first casualty of populism.” Quote by Anthony Daniels, an English writer and retired prison doctor and psychiatrist. What is Populism? It is a political ideology that has been set up by the government to please the citizen. This political ideology also leads to a creation of Populist policy; poor people, which are the majority of Thailand, are the main target of this populist policy. One of the well-known examples of Populist policy in Thailand is called “The rice subsidy scheme.” In this article, the Populism system will be scrutinized deeply to show whether these populist policies are the truth or just only some beautiful words that use to persuade the citizen

Main advantages of the populist system are First; it increases the income and decreases the difference between each class in the society. As we can observe that most of the schemes are mainly aim to increase the income of the and decrease the payment of the citizen example the free learning scheme that the government provide for the poor people, also the scheme about healthcare that gives chances for every single person in the country to get a better healthcare from the government hospital. Second, it increases the chances to develop throughout the country. There is a statement that states that wealthy will get things first, poor will get later or never. This also includes the development of the living; the populist system will give chances for the poor people to have voices and to develop their own living as equal as the wealthy one. For the disadvantages are that First; it makes the economics to be come more fragile by increases the public debt by using lots of money to succeed the schemes. Second; the people who gets the benefits are in groups not entire. As the above paragraph has stated that some schemes are only suitable for some groups of people. Third; the system can leads to corruption because of the amount of money that the government use is a very large amount of money. Fourth; people will be addicted to the help of the government and finally won’t

What the government gets from the populist system are votes and people’s like, but would it be possible that this system will give the government a long-term trustworthiness instead of a temporary fondness? The problems about the populist system are that most of the schemes are hard to be succeeded or we can call it “imaginary schemes”. Also the government has to use lots of money from the finance in addition they can’t predict that will the result will be really worth it or not. All of these will leads to the disadvantages of the system that will affect the government later on. When problems show up, surely people will criticize the effectiveness of the government and maybe lose trust. The government might have to pay for all the damages that they have made to the country by spending too much money just to help some groups of people. As we can tell if the schemes work well, we all get benefit including the government, but if not, it’s like turning