Why are you calling us populists ‘dangerous‘?
Now I draw my ‘blogging-sword’ on you. And we are both liberals! And in the same party! Ugh! What a bother!
Explain how this vague ‘progressive movement’ is doing anything worth salt for anyone? President Obama has always identified himself a liberal and not a progressive, as have you.
A Populist Liberal is allowed to exist.
Did not Hillary Clinton label herself a progressive, and then shortly thereafter lose the primary to a man who recognizes himself as a liberal?
Explain why it is a good idea to have a mainly divided and thus mostly useless party?
We are all Americans first, and political party members second.
The Populists of America run the convenience stores at late hours, made your coffee you drank this morning, wired your network and assembled your car. We are the people who smiled at you today in the store.
The liberal progressives of America run the local non-profits, political discussion groups and local activism groups.
If the progressive movement was doing it’s job for the people of America the recession we are suffering would have been common knowledge for the American household.
If voices like mine were present in the corporate -biased media then the great sham pulled on us all would have been aired out, if not entirely prevented.
You called me a terrorist. You might not have meant as much but that’s what it boils down to.
You said you think people like me are just trying to steam up the public for the sake of it.
That’s BS. If you are not angry; then you are not an American. End of story.
“There’s no thinking involved.”
BS. (Read my stuff about AIG Bonuses and get ready to be shocked.)
“They just want to throw all the bums out.” (Not all of them; just some of them.)
Damn straight. I’m calling for resignations across the board. Shame on you for not using your platform to do this as well. We only need action at this stage. You should join me in this, but please run your own affairs as you will.
“They just tell them what they want to hear.”
My messages hasn’t changed. The right wing morphs itself into whatever it does. (American Populism is found in this quote.)
“You know Hitler used populism to get what he wanted.”
Hitler!?! I thought we agreed that bringing up Hitler ends your argument before you can make it. You’ve said as much yourself many times.
I remind you that the Nazi Movement was a Progressive Movement, as well as Populist.
Registered Democratic voter. Poor and unemployed American. Populist. All the same thing in my book.
The form of progressive I am is a religious progressive.
Lastly, all these right wingers using this to promote lies and BS are just using righteous rage to boost ratings. They would try to profit off a orphan, if you ask me.
Why do we have to fight? This is stupid. Your on my team for almost everything I can say. Yet, now we must bicker about the 20% where we don’t agree.
It’s a shame you can’t see this new populist rage is not some weird phenomena but rather the express will of the people. The fundamental nature of all democracy.
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