What would a king chosen by his advisory council know about democracy?
It’s a church, not a nation. What about your boss not being chosen democratically?
The Holy See isn’t a nation? Are you sure about that? It has sovereignty. What else would it be?
Well, I sure didn’t vote for him.
Populism is a feature of democracy. It’s just like in life, easy answers, like fast food for example, are always easy to suggest, but in the long term might not be the best. But if you can show your voter base, eating these disgusting vegetables in the long term is going to do everyone good, slight inconvenience, major benefit. So there will always be the power hungry populist that will give easy and popular answers to hard questions, it is the voters duty to determine who has their long term interests at heart and who is able to bribe you with your shortsighted desires to get into power.
If he didn’t name them directly, they won’t understand he’s talking about them. There’s a lack of intellect and critical thinking there. That’s why it works in the first place.
He’s the Pope, he’s literally the head of the world’s largest group of people regularly practicing the lack of critical thinking.
