In times like these, who wouldn't at least identify with the
general sentiments of populist thinking? While populism
generally centers around income and anger from the middle class,
working class, and the working poor, there's more than one shade
of populism. The two dominant forms these days is Tea Party
Populism and Occupy Wall Street Populism. The Tea Party sees the
Federal Government as the primary reason for the nation’s
economic distress. They see a government that's over spent,
taxes too much, is too intrusive into personal lives, assaulting
individual liberties, redistributing hard earned personal wealth
to those that they perceive shouldn’t be helped, and regards
anyone that uses or is dependent on social welfare as part of
the unemployment problem. On the other hand, the Occupy Wall
Street movement has a much stronger connection to the turn of
the century Trust Busting of “Teddy” Roosevelt, the Women’s
Suffrage movement, the rise of Organized Labor during the Great
Depression, the FDR New Deal socia