We've Got To Go To The People

Populism Is At Its Essence Just Determined Focus On Helping People Be Able To Get Out Of The Iron Grip Of The Corporate Power That Is Overwhelming Our Economy, Our Environment, Energy, The Media, Government. One Big Difference Between Real Populism And What The Tea Party Thing Is, Is That Real Populists Understand That Government Has Become A Subsidiary Of Corporations. So You Can't Say, Let's Get Rid Of Government. You Need To Be Saying Let's Take Over Government.

Bush And The Corporate Kleptocrats Have Stomped On Too Many People And Left Too Many People Out Of The System, And Those People Are Now In Rebellion. It's Not Just Poor People They Are Holding Down But The Middle Class, As Well. I Have A Favorite Bumper Sticker I Saw On A Pickup Truck Last Year In Austin. It Said, "where Are We Going? And What Am I Doing In This Hand Basket?"

Organic Agriculture Is More About Fairness And Respect Than It Is About Parts-per-billion Of Pesticide Residues

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.

There's Enormous Progressive Activism And, More Often Than Not, Success At The Grassroots Level - Everything From Living Wage Campaigns To Efforts To Finance Our Elections Are Having Terrific Success.