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Carolina on My Mind

April 22nd, 2012 · Comments Off · Human Rights, Media, Politics, Populism, Social Security

In 2010, over 60 seats changed in the U.S. House of Representatives. The South didn’t change that much because the South was already pretty much in the hands of the Republican Party. And when we say the Republican Party, remember that this is not Eisenhower’s Republican Party, the hero of World War II, the Augusta [...]

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Americans Want Jobs, Not Cuts in Medicare or Medicaid

April 16th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, Lobbying, Politics, Populism, Wall Street, wars and militarism

Most people will tell you that they are angry with the President. They were angry with the President in 2010 when they voted for 29 Republican governors, Republican governors who—the idiots should have known—are about to destroy collective bargaining for public workers, like teachers, firefighters and police, drop millions of Americans off Medicaid, and eliminate [...]

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What’s Wrong with America Part II –The Neoconservative Agenda

December 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Politics

Since 1980 the Republican Party has morphed from a simple, fiscally conservative, business and military-oriented political party into something completely different. The Republican Party has become the literal political arm of Corporate America and the Super-rich. The problem with this is quite obvious. The Super-rich and the huge corporations, like the health insurance corporations, for [...]

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Corporatism Versus Populism

April 25th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Politics, Populism

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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