On Sep 20, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
David Sirota writes:
The numbers are tragic but predictable. Until this week, Obama
largely
avoided the contrasting FDR-style populism the nation wants and the
moment
demands.
"FDR-style populism"?? whatever one can say about FDR, he was no
populist. He was one of the "Eastern Elite," after all. Maybe you can
say he was a "progressive" (like LaFollette or Teddy Roosevelt) but
populism usually refers to mass "middle class" and working class
opposition to elites.
Weren't the LaFollettes (Suzanne LaFollette participated in the Dewey
Commission), like Huey Long and Bill Langer, products and exponents of
mass "middle class" and working class (and farmer) opposition to elites?
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to
be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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