Re: Populism - Good or Bad?
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 10:43 pm
Those uppity peasants. Don't they know their lords and masters know what's best for them?
I think it can be.Dan Z wrote:Kind of a periodic societal reset?
I do not know enough about them and their platforms to really know. I would doubt FDR was. He worked at amassing power into DC.Dan Z wrote: Was FDR a populist?
Andrew Jackson?
Agree with Robert. History supports the idea of a periodic societal reset. I like to think of it as the swing of an ideological pendulum. Same thing.Robert wrote:I think it can be.Dan Z wrote:Kind of a periodic societal reset?
I do not know enough about them and their platforms to really know. I would doubt FDR was. He worked at amassing power into DC.Dan Z wrote: Was FDR a populist?
Andrew Jackson?
50 years ago, the Democrats were the little government people and the Republicans were the big government people. It seems to be whichever party is out of power for a while seems to become the little government party until they get power.
We will have to wait to see if Trump breaks that mold and really does send a lot of the power back to the people and states.
Good one.ohio jones wrote:
(he didn't actually say that, but it sounds like something he would)
Doesn't Trump's cabinet look mostly like lords and masters - billionaires and generals?Josh wrote:Those uppity peasants. Don't they know their lords and masters know what's best for them?
People in charge that have actually done something and lived in the real world/ What a novel idea!Bootstrap wrote:Doesn't Trump's cabinet look mostly like lords and masters - billionaires and generals?Josh wrote:Those uppity peasants. Don't they know their lords and masters know what's best for them?
Most were self made. Upwardly mobile. This is a leveling mechanism working.Bootstrap wrote:
Doesn't Trump's cabinet look mostly like lords and masters - billionaires and generals?
I notice how that worked for generations of slaves.Robert wrote:One thing we see often in a Christian lifestyle is that it brings prosperity.
I was making a general statement. I have seen time and time again people that follow Christ, that leave their habits and harmful lifestyles behind become prosperous. Not, there is no guarantee, and it should not be the reason, but it is often the by product.JimFoxvog wrote:I notice how that worked for generations of slaves.
I do not understand what you are saying here.JimFoxvog wrote:The people demographers classify as "black" have a higher church attendance than those classified as "white", but are less prosperous.