Economic populism 2003, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power now on Hulu

150 years ago, the business corporation was a relatively insignificant institution. Today, it is all-pervasive. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party in other times and places, the corporation is today's dominant institution. This documentary examines the nature, evolution, impacts, and possible futures of the modern business corporation. Initially given a narrow legal mandate, what has allowed today's corporation to achieve such extraordinary power and influence over our lives? We begin our inquiry as scandals threaten to trigger a wide debate about the lack of public control over big corporations.

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We don't need a chart to know that the middle class does not feel a "competitive advantage." As dismissive as we want to be of the worst examples of attempts to capitalize politically or monetarily on the broad range of third party sentiment, we need to recognize that a lot of these people know who the enemies are and persist in trying to mark ballots for representatives that will stop sleeping with those enemies.

Economic populism 2006, "The New Democratic Populism." (Skip the part about Lou Dobbs and focus, if you want to talk about migration.)

Economic populism and thangs 2008, National Journal's Presidential Promise Audit

Meet Congressional Democrats’ 2010 survival strategy: economic populism

It's not a battle between big government and small government, it's a battle for effective government.

In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided.

This confusing clustering pattern of voter sentiment sets the stage for some sort of epic grassroots landgrab for easy seats starting at local levels that's probably about to start getting weird, leading either to better candidates or just more expensive ones. It's hard enough to find a sandwich you can trust.