Editing Demagogue (section)

===Promising the impossible===
Another fundamental demagogic technique is making promises only for their emotional effect on audiences, without regard for how they might be accomplished or without intending to honor them once in office.<ref name="Rhodes-promise" /> Demagogues express these empty promises simply and theatrically, but remain extremely hazy about how they will achieve them because usually they are impossible. For example, [[Huey Long]] promised that if he were elected president, every family would have a home, an automobile, a radio, and $2,000 yearly. He was vague about how he would make that happen, but people still joined his Share-the-Wealth clubs.{{r|Luthin|page=266}} Another kind of empty demagogic promise is to make everyone wealthy or "solve all the problems". The Polish demagogue [[Stanisław Tymiński]], running as an unknown "maverick" on the basis of his prior success as a businessman in Canada, promised "immediate prosperity"—exploiting the economic difficulties of laborers, especially miners and steelworkers. Tymiński forced a runoff in the 1990 presidential election, nearly defeating [[Lech Wałęsa]].<ref name=kozminski /><ref name=sztompka />