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against their own interests. Depends on the platform and how it is presented.
Here's how I put it: 1) representing the economic interests of those whose entire net worth is valued by their labor and not by inheritance or familial wealth.
2) representing the economic interests of those whose businesses are based on a very small group of people such as a family or partnership rather than a corporation of a wide number of stockholders.
3) representing the interests of human citizens and permanent residents over the interests of non-human corporations and seeking the repeal of the ruling that applied teh 14th amendment to corporations.
4) representing the social interests of those most vulnerable to poverty and unemployment and protecting the protections of those individuals.
The party has changed from the 19th century, no doubt. Molly Ivins calls herself a populist too. Michael Moore does, occasionally too. I think Perot and Buchanan have hijacked it.
Perot is a perotista - he's interested in his own strange self.... and Buchanan is really very odd. He's the type that gives nostalgia a bad name. He doesn't seem to realize that no, the 50's weren't so great. And the 1950s weren't much better. He reminds me of a Luddite.
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