Demagoguery refers to a strategy for gaining political power by appealing to the popular prejudices, emotions, fears and expectations of the public — typically via impassioned rhetoric and propaganda, and often using nationalist or populist themes, usually singling out a group or groups.
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The word for this week, and likely for this year, and the next.
No, not demagogue or demagogy. The Word for the Week is "them."
Why should we help them.We are being dragged down by them.
Blaming them feels good. It makes one feel as if they were successful, not part of the problem.
It wasn't us, it was them.
They caused their own problems. They caused our problems. It is unfortunate but they would be better off somewhere else, out of sight, no longer an impairment or competition for scarce resources.
They are the scapegoats, usually singled out by the group or groups that caused the problems, and even those who benefited indirectly, made some money out of the bubble, less deservedly 
than they might like to imagine.
They are the weak, the poor, the defenseless, the different, the other.
And the circle of the ones that are considered them spreads wider and wider.
Because even those shouting and waving their fists in the crowds against them are also them to someone else higher in the power structure. Useless eaters is a relative objectification of the human.
And then someone will come and take them away, where they do not wish to go.
And then comes the descent into madness and destruction, for all.
One might ask, "But Jesse, you have inveighed against the Bankers on numerous occasions. How is that different? Aren't you a demagogue too, with just a different opinion?
No. All banks are not bad. All who work at banks, even the biggest Wall Street banks, are not bad. Even all those who turned a blind eye to what went on around them are not bad, just weak, distracted, overwhelmed.
But there were prime actors in this tragedy. The first objective is to stop it, to reform the system, to end the imbalances. And it would be disingenuous to not notice that the big Wall Street Banks, and the rating agencies and accounting firms, were at the epicenter of the financial crises for the past ten years. They were the lobbyists, the financial engineers, the architects of fraud, the enablers of many frauds going back to Enron and beyond.
Cui bono? Who benefited the most?
It was not so much the poor slob acting foolishly on bad advice. It was the joker taking millions off the table time after time by gaming the system, and actively promoting the bubble culture and deep capture that knocked out the regulatory process and the rule of law.
And then the law can deal with individual transgressions, and the emphasis here is "individual." Not a lynching of the bystanders. A serious investigation with individual accountability and equal protection.
That is not demagoguery. That is justice, because it is based on law and individual actions.
