[neverdem]

The Country Party

[Buckeye McFrog]

Be careful what you wish for, VDH

Populism WILL come roaring back with power and fury.
Only it might not take a course we’d necessarily approve of.

I’m thinking President Fauxahontas and her platform of weekly televised floggings of bankers, live from Yankee Stadium.

[Secret Agent Man]

Populism is just catching the wave of whatever’s in vogue with the majority of an area or country at the moment. It is a “taking advantage” of current sentiment kind of platform. Not one that really is founded in anything.

At the extreme it could mirror angry mob rule.

[omega4412]

I want a candidate who will run against crony capitalism. Against Solyndra and the "green the color of tax dollars" crowd. Against the financial bailouts. Against what Ayn Rand called "the aristocracy of pull," or in Chicago terms "the aristocracy of clout."

One question the candidate should have for prospective presidential appointees: Are you now, or have you ever been, an employee of Goldman Sachs? If you are appointed, will you agree never to accept employment from them?

Similarly for the other "too big to fail, too big to jail" financial institutions. And the Chinese government and its subsidiaries. And the Saudis.

[Fiji Hill]

"No politician speaks for the common man."

President Hoover expressed his disdain for the "cult of the common man" in On the Uncommon Man.

[Beagle8U]

“Plenty of pleaders for rich and poor, but no politician speaks for the common man.”

Conservatives like Ted Cruz do.

Take gas prices as an example of how a true conservative helps the common man Joe Lunch-bucket.

No, he won't put on price controls or fund some dumb-a$$ train system.

He would remove regulations on drilling and refining so the free market could work.

Remove the corn gas mandates and all the Heinz 57 blends of gas.

We would be swimming in $2 gas in a couple years.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Seriously, Victor?

[Excellence]

thanks

[neverdem]

Ping

[familyop]

Wrong rhetoric again, writer for the political/regulator class.

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

Populism \Pop"u*lism\, n. (U. S. Politics)
The political doctrines advocated by the People's party.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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We common Americans are not the ones who collaborated with foreign communist nations against the USA, and we're not the ones who outlawed manufacturing competition at local levels in the USA. The favored few constituents of the DNC and GOP ordered their politicians to do that.

Dump the local government regulations against working class men producing useful things. Dump residential building regulatory offices. Their inhabitants are going to be idle for decades anyway. If you want revenues for your bureaucracy and propaganda girls, get them off of us. Let us do what we do best--supporting your lazy selves with our small shop manufacturing and small agriculture.

Otherwise, have fun. Enjoy the slide.

[familyop]

"Gas has gone up about $2 a gallon...Such a crushing burden on the cash-strapped commuter class..."

The game's over on that foolery. Look at the near future with the hundreds of millions of drivers and manufacturing increases in formerly third world countries for the truth of the matter--according to our global U.S. bosses, workers far better than Americans.

Oil will go up, and the dollar will fall with decreasing American production. The commuting paradigm for limiting employment to socially pathological (politically correct) employees is dead. Deal with it. There's no way out.