People's Party 2010!

It's come to my attention that we are living in a time of economic, social, and political chaos. It's also come to my attention that this isn't a unique thing, from the perspective of history. Partisan politics have taken over where good sense left off, and for not the first time in our country's history. I'd like to take you back a century or so, and introduce you to the People's Party, otherwise known as the 'Populist Party.'

I've taken this excerpt from 'historymatters.gmu.edu', and cross referenced much of it with other historical documents and texts. The actual text is taken from the World Almanac of 1893. I was going to talk *about* the People's Party, but I thought it best to let their constitution speak for itself.

As you're reading this, consider the following: I would suggest that healthcare, specifically the insurance companies, are the equivalent to the issue of the railroads for those involved in the People's Party.

I would also urge you to consider reading about the rise of the People's party, what they stood for - and most importantly WHY they stood for what they stood for - because our political, economic, and social climate is not *all* that different today than theirs.

Where is our generation's People's Party?

"We have witnessed for more than a quarter of a century the struggles of the two great political parties for power and plunder, while grievous wrongs have been inflicted upon the suffering people. We charge that the controlling influences dominating both these parties have permitted the existing dreadful conditions to develop without serious effort to prevent or restrain them. Neither do they now promise us any substantial reform. They have agreed together to ignore, in the coming campaign, every issue but one. They propose to drown the outcries of a plundered people with the uproar of a sham battle over the tariff, so that capitalists, corporations, national banks, rings, trusts, watered stock, the demonetization of silver and the oppressions of the usurers may all be lost sight of. They propose to sacrifice our homes, lives, and children on the altar of mammon; to destroy the multitude in order to secure corruption funds from the millionaires." -- The Omaha Platform, Preamble - People's Populist Party of 1892