Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) to start "Populist Caucus"
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« Reply #25 on: December 10, 2008, 07:46:56 PM »
Quote from: Cao / Rahim '12! on December 10, 2008, 05:09:07 PM
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YESSSS!!!! POPULIST! POPULIST!

SERIOUSLY. Do you guys have a problem with focusing on the issues of the middle class? I can assume not all of you are multi-millionaires?

I have a problem with the idiotic american tendency to call the working class the 'middle class'.

I'm much more annoyed by people who call the 80th to 98th percentiles, the "Upper middle class."
That's the traditional usage though - the "upper middle class" is, in one word, the gentry. As opposed to the upper class, ie the nobility.
You're not upper middle class if you don't have a household servant.

Hmm. What are we? Some family members have household servants, but those are the poor ones in Bangladesh.
I quite like this. Its platform is more or less broadly right-social democrat.
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« Reply #26 on: December 10, 2008, 09:37:14 PM »
Bob Dole (the forum member) would love this.
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« Reply #27 on: December 10, 2008, 09:38:04 PM »
Quote from: paul718 on December 10, 2008, 09:37:14 PM
Bob Dole (the forum member) would love this.

What about me?  I was a Populist before Dole came to the forum.
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« Reply #28 on: December 10, 2008, 10:06:27 PM »
Quote from: fezzyfestoon on December 10, 2008, 09:43:01 PM
Please, PLEASE make this a Democratic thing.  Take them, all of them.
Um... if we took the Republicans who still supported the things this caucus supports, that would mean you guys would lose Specter, Snowe, etc.
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« Reply #29 on: December 10, 2008, 10:23:59 PM »
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Quote from: paul718 on December 10, 2008, 09:37:14 PM
Bob Dole (the forum member) would love this.

What about me?  I was a Populist before Dole came to the forum.

You don't include it in every one of your posts, nor do you have the relentless, sometimes puzzling need for self-identification that he did.
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« Reply #30 on: December 10, 2008, 10:34:53 PM »
« Edited: December 10, 2008, 10:36:54 PM by Darwinian Man »
Hmm...I strongly agree with 2, 3, and 4 on their list, and feel that 1, 5, and 6 are too vague to comment on.  I mean, 6 is like saying that you want free ponies and ice cream.
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« Reply #31 on: December 10, 2008, 10:48:41 PM »
Quote from: Darwinian Man on December 10, 2008, 10:34:53 PM
Hmm...I strongly agree with 2, 3, and 4 on their list, and feel that 1, 5, and 6 are too vague to comment on.  I mean, 6 is like saying that you want free ponies and ice cream.

Who doesn't?
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« Reply #32 on: December 11, 2008, 06:21:48 PM »
I think it's a shame that populism and being against free trade seem to go so strongly hand-in-hand.  Although to be fair, being a protectionist and being for "fair trade" aren't necessarily the same thing.
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« Reply #33 on: December 11, 2008, 10:58:41 PM »
What they need is a populist liberty caucus.
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« Reply #34 on: December 11, 2008, 11:02:58 PM »
Sounds like this could involve those treasonous unions.
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« Reply #35 on: December 11, 2008, 11:35:21 PM »
I remember LOU DOBBS talking about starting a middle class caucus with a congressman.
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