Re: Alito & disability
Nathan Newman wrote:
And then there were the Populists, who, whatever their faults, consisted of ordinary folks who got deeply involved in the arcanae of monetary theory and such.
But the Populists were more based on rural ideology than a worker mobilization– and Populism foundered on the stronger racial identity of many Americans over their identity as workers. The exact period of Populist strength coincided with the tightening of Jim Crow and the completion of disenfranchisement of blacks in the South.
This is all part of the “whatever their faults” - I’m no Populist. But my point was that these rubes were deeply politicized and spent time studying monetary theory.
Nationally, workers were divided between the parties and urban workers were as attracted to the protectionism of the GOP as Populist rhetoric.
The reality is the labor movement is more unified as a political entity within the Democratic Party TODAY than they ever were in the 19th century.
Yeah, too bad it’s shrinking and ever-more irrelevant!
Doug