[Borges]

History buffs, have at it...

[Borges]

I screwed up the formatting here.

[Dr. Thorne]

Things are a little different this time, lefty Atlantic scumbag.

[Theoria]

Nice read.

[AmericanVictory]

Several things are left out of this article. For one thing, as those who knew and worked with "Fighting Bob" would tell you, he was staunchly anti-communist. He considered them the enemy as much as he did too powerful crony capitalists

Another point should be made about Lincoln Steffens, upon whom the articles spends so much ink. While the muckraking of Steffens was at times truthful and accurate, it also should be kept in mind that he visited Stalin's USSR and returned famously stating: "I have seen the future and it works." Just a few points to keep in mind.

[GraceG]

“Progressives” ie. Control Freaks arose from BOTH political parties.

All the “Progressive” Amendments to the Constitution that arose from that era broke a Cardinal unspoken rule of the Constition.

Instead of telling the government HOW to do or what not to touch, they told the PEOPLE what they could or could not do and ALLOWED the government new powers to TAKE from the people....

“Progressive” should be replaced with a more apt term of “Control Freak” because that is EXACTLY what they are.

[exnavy]

Tea party and Progressives are the polar opposites.

[Ben Ficklin]

William Jennings Bryan the most notable populist of those times. Compare the Bryan's presidential election maps to recent republican presidential maps and they look very similar.US Election Atlas

Bryan, who was known as the "Great Prairie Populist", was also a cultural populist and prosecuted biology teacher Scopes in the "Scopes Monkey Trial"

Bryan was the forerunner of the modern populist movement in the GOP.

[Ditto]

Interesting that Wisconsin has a governor now who has no fear of taking on the “System”.

Different systems now, and different issues, but what Walker has done took a lot of courage..