This right-elite sponsored 'populism' also deliberately attracts people who want simplistic answers and ways to vent their bile on easy targets.
Instead, they want simplistic solutions to toss at the electorate under the banner of "being tough on crime," while they have actually made it less safe rather than improving the security of our families and communities.
A third wants simplistic rules.
"He said, 'Since this is my entire environment, I don't want a simplistic home — I want a home with complexity,' " Koolhaas recalled.
It doesn't mean that we want a simplistic checklist – one Muslim, one gay man, one northern woman – and no checklist will tell you what policies might follow.
For all its simplistic heartiness, "What Men Want" has one big idea, which comes late and is casually tossed off: What burdens and obligations come with learning hidden truths?
"I don't want the simplistic labels to get in the way of what's really going on here," said Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, a Democrat whose primary challenge to Mrs. Lincoln has ignited enthusiasm among activists who want to purge the party of those they see as close to corporate interests and uncommitted to liberal causes.
The answer ultimately depends on whether you want a simplistic but less customized solution or are willing to handle some complexity and extra effort to achieve greater customization.
In simplistic terms, if you want good dreams, sleep well and think happy thoughts.
And it's still too easily and patronisingly pinpointed as to "wanting to please the boys" – a condescending and simplistic approach to women who want to look "sexy" because it's just one of the many things that can make them feel powerful and strong.
Of course, money can also be converted into material things, yet it seems simplistic to suppose that we want money only in order to convert it into the material things we really want, since even these material things aren't just material either: they are symbolically dense artifacts, and they convey to others certain ideas about their owners.
