Reply #74: Some where else some one recommended you define what you mean [View All]

[dogman]

by populism. As I see it, it is an appeal to the common people to protect them from the elite. The problem is, like everything else, we have allowed the GOP to define our Senators and Party leaders as the elite. It is true they charge our side with class warfare for what they say, while they conduct class warfare with what they do. The Kennedy family is very wealthy, yet they have stood up for the poor throughout. I feel that by slighting Dean and Kerry you may be feeding into the same spin the GOP has put on the Kennedys. this is one of the ways they have been successful in portraying our leaders this way. Unfortunately they have evolved the election into a high stakes game where only the wealthy can play. It has reached the point where some consider it arrogant for any one else to think they are entitled to play.