The Middle Of The Road Is For

Populists Have Always Been Out To Challenge The Orthodoxy Of The Corporate Order And To Empower Workaday Americans So They Can Control Their Own Economic And Political Destinies. This Approach Distinguishes The Movement From Classic Liberalism, Which Seeks To Live In Harmony With Concentrated Corporate Power By Trying To Regulate Excesses.

Liberals Want To Manage The Damage With Government Programs To Take Care Of Those Who Have Fallen Between The Cracks. Populists Want To Fix The Cracks So That People Don't Fall In The First Place.

It May Be The Rooster That Does All The Crowing But It's The Hen That Delivers The Goods.

Most People Have A Sense That Things Have Gone Terribly Wrong. It's Not Just Some Giveaways To The Rich And The Rigging Of Regulatory Rules. It's Something Fundamental. The Very Idea Of America Is Being Stolen, And People Are Sensing That With A Tremor Within Their Hearts. They Are Taking Away This Core Notion Of The Common Good, This Idea That We Are All In It Together. They Are Diverting America From Our Historic Striving Towards Egalitarianism, Which Is Why America Exists. It's The Thing That Makes Us Unique In History. That's What People Are Sensing. We Are Going Down The Wrong Path.

If It's Dangerous To Talk To Yourself, It's Probably Even Dicier To Listen.