On Sep 2, 2012, at 12:03 PM, andie_nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I re-read the FX chapter of Wall Street that you posted. Lovely piece of work, as I remembered, but I have a minor query. Why do you say, in a reversal of 19th century populism's anti-gold, pro-silver attitudes, today's far right wingers tend to be gold bugs, or vice versa? I paraphrase. I don't disagree about the modern link between gold buggery and lunatic right wing politics. But why the implied comparison to populism? Populism was politically complex, yes?, and had right wing element, like virulent racism.
For sure. But many right-wingers are often described as "populists" including today's Tea Party. And many of them are goldbugs. Which is weird. It's not a complex point.