Now that the 2016 election is over and we have a winner…..the big question now is with all the populist movement, both Left and Right, will they continue….or is this a dead subject….are they over with the election?
The summer ends with a growing lament among progressives. Tom Frank’s cutting voice sums it up:
“And so ends the great populist uprising of our time, fizzling out pathetically in the mud and the bigotry stirred up by a third-rate would-be caudillo named Donald J Trump. So closes an era of populist outrage that began back in 2008, when the Davos dream of a world run by benevolent bankers first started to crack. The unrest has taken many forms in these eight years – from idealistic to cynical, from Occupy Wall Street to the Tea Party – but they all failed to change much of anything. And now the last, ugliest, most fraudulent manifestation is failing so spectacularly that it may discredit populism itself for years to come.”
Like many on the left, Frank has few hopes for Hillary Clinton. She’ll be the ultimate Davos moderate, he predicts, collecting neo-conservatives and Republican elites, negotiating backroom deals to “get things done.” The elites, shaken by the Sanders insurgency and the Trump rise, are now back in the saddle.
We will see if these movements can continue after the voting is done….
I think that the movement has only just begun….but I have been mistaken before…..
But just what causes these times of popular revolt?
Easy answer….bungled wars, uneven growth and insecurity.
Does any of that sound familiar?
I believe the “populist” movement is here to stay….at least until the American people get some answers that makes sense to them.
Thoughts?
Reblogged this on saywhatumean2say and commented:
The movement(s) are only over if WE let them die. ~~dru~~
Good answer!
I agree and thanx for the re-blog….chuq
Speaking for myself, I think that I’m just going to have to close my eyes from November to January, and then get involved in local politics and start pushing and pushing for progress at that local level, all the while keeping a close watch on what’s happening at the national level. I think we all have to do at least that.
It’s what Bernie Sanders will be doing, and what he expects us all to do, and it’s better than sitting at a bar complaining about Hillary or Trump.
Although, I’m not planning on giving up bars. No. Not at all.
LOL….another good answer….chuq
An excellent plan….I wish you much luck….chuq
Actually, mon ami, I’m pretty certain no such thing actually exists; ‘populism’ is just another MSM label, designed simply to occupy people’s minds with BS that means nothing, to keep them from figuring out the whole thing is a scam…. True ‘populism’ would be if a revolution broke out… anything short of that is just another bullshit distraction by idiots who are themselves buried in delusional thinking…
gigoid, the dubious, sick to death of how sick our culture has become…
hmph….
Sadly I agree but for the sake of lesser minds…they need a label that they can refer to when they babble….chuq
We need to figure out a way to ‘fool’ them into using their minds, since they don’t seem capable of rational thought on their own….
I guess one could say that is the glaring lesson we have failed to learn in our entire history, eh?
gigoid
Pretty much….as my grandfather would say..”you can lead a horse to water but he will not sing”….chuq