Neo-populism

A term that so many fools are throwing around.  Edwards was considered by some as a “left” populist and then there was Huckabee, the “right” populist.  This is from a paper for the Democratic Leadership Council:

Populism has a checkered history, but that hasn’t stopped a new crop of American politicians from embracing it in reaction to the supposed scourges of trade and globalization.

Today’s neo-populism has right and left strands. Republican populism is mainly anti-immigration: Think Patrick Buchanan or Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Ariz). Democratic populism, personified by two newly elected Senators, Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, is vehemently anti-trade. The two strands converge in the person of CNN blowhard Lou Dobbs, who blames immigrants and corporations for either taking American jobs or sending them overseas.

U.S. progressives ought to think twice before adopting the “populist” label, and not just because it’s commonly hung on such noxious demagogues as Jean Le Pen, Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The homegrown American populism of the 1880s and 1890s–the horny-handed-sons-of-toil faith identified first with the People’s Party in the 1880s and 1890s and, later, three-time Democratic Presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan–also is a dubious model.

The DLC calls thise who support public regulation of corporations, a progressive income tax, labor union rights, and such as “NUTTY”.  And then this group of lying scum, calls themselves progressives because they want to reform society.  Reform is a cowards way of saying all will remain the same with a few minor changes to make you think that they are on your side.  These centrists are nothing more than Repubs with a minor social agenda.  Corporations are still the major players with these people.

Look at what we have now.  You may sit down and thank the DLC and Bill Clinton for what is happening now with jobs and trade.  Do you really want more of these types in control of your life?  If so, Vote for Clinton and the DLC will be in control yet again.