Populism is about people. The Latin word for “the people” is populus. So a Populist is one who has concern for the People. Historically American Populism has been a political philosophy that had to do with the struggle of the average worker or farmer against those powerful forces in society that had gained control of [...]
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Corporatism Versus Populism
April 25th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Politics, Populism
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Why Republicans Are Terrified of ACORN.
October 7th, 2009 · Comments Off · Politics
Do you think that the attacks on ACORN are some kind of recent phenomenon? Do you think that the successful Republican technique of sending in James O’Keefe, a film maker and a couple of scuzzies to pretend to be prostitutes looking for a place to set up was the best Republican effort? Yes, it did [...]
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Dick Cheney and Failure On the Right
September 7th, 2009 · Comments Off · Politics
Someone made an interesting and valid point on television recently…a significant event in itself. In one brief segment between pharmaceutical commercials for sexual member enhancement on Sunday morning, someone said–it doesn’t matter who because they are all dipping into the same well of nonsense–that we now have a partisan Democracy. That is to say, we [...]
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