03-07-2018, 12:14 PM
(03-07-2018, 11:40 AM)Dill Wrote: I think one could argue that "agrarians" in the late 19th century were as political as they are now.
The difference is that they had a better understanding of who the real "elites" were. Think of the Populist Party.
Well, the issue is that movements like the Populist Party were crushed by the elites as they used racial lines to divide us. It happened with the Populists and led to the Jim Crow era. It happened after the civil rights movement. Both times we saw all of the poor come together to fight the elites and then they broke it up and caused the races to fight each other.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
