>From Hightower:
The Christmas season has gotten me thinking about Jesus,
which surely must tick-off big merchandisers and advertisers,
since they've spent billions . . .
and he goes on to write the freshman theme that began to bore me to death my first semester as a teaching fellow at the University of Michigan over 40 years ago.
And from the scintillating Michael Moore (re Seattle):
This is by no means the end of Big Business. The richest
1 percent still own 90 percent of everything in this world. They
will not go down without a fight.
But they have been put on notice that people from all walks
of life have had their fill and will not let up until we have a fair,
just, and democratic economy.
I believe that rhetoric was used up (at the latest) in the first days of the Paris Commune,
I think we can define "Modern Populism in the U.S." as the mask liberal Democrats wear between elections to avoid being too embarassed in front of their radical friends.
Carrol