Reply #5: It is unfortunate that populist politics has been ceded to the Far Right... [View All]

[SteveM]

Not all of the history of populist politics is good, esp. the racist component. But the increasingly calcified stances of standard-issue 'liberalism' have gotten in the way of seeing the need for some very fundamental change in this country: The protection of both workers' rights, and the ability for people to make meaningful change about how government will serve them. Those are certainly not all the issues we need to deal with, and I don't consider Palin much of a populist; it's just that there is so little effort made by anyone anywhere to take up the banner of populism, or even the increasingly abstract notion that we are a government of, by and for the people.

Again, I repeat: No one wants anything to do with the "left." Not the GOP (of course), not the Democrats, not Obama, not MSM, not nobody. As a political force (which is not to say individuals or organizations), the Left is dead. The only time you hear the term "Left," is when MSM (including PBS repeatedly) is promoting the agenda du jour: Third-way, No-Labels, Centrism.