The Middle Of The Road

Populism Is Not A Style, It's A People's Rebellion Against The Iron Grip That Big Corporations Have On Our Country - Including Our Economy, Government, Media, And Environment.

Part Of The Failure Of The Corporate Media Is That They Don't Dig Out Stories Anymore. They Are Looking Down From The Top Floors. Media Work Used To Be Something That Was Down On The Ground Level. Now They Are Looking Out Of The Windows In The Top Suites, And They Don't Know What's Going On Out There. And Then There Are The Corporate Owners Who Don't Want This Stuff Reported Because If One Town Learns That The Next Town Has Defeated Wal-mart Or Stopped Sweatshop Goods, Then Other Towns Are Going To Want To Do The Same Thing.

But The Good News Is That Out In The Countryside, Just About Every Place That's Got A Zip Code Has Somebody Or Some Group Of People Battling The Economic And Political Exclusion That Wall Street And Washington Are Shoving Down Our Throats.

Reagan Promised Everyone A Seven-course Dinner. Ours Turned Out To Be A Possum And A Six-pack.

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.