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Hightower Lowdown
"The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it's conformity." -- Jim Hightower
In This Issue
The media calls anyone who shouts "a populist"
Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against corporate power
Also in this issue:
February's Lowdown
How corporate money took over Washington--and created the mobs who rant against reform
Despite a constant racket from the forces of the far-out right (Fox television's yackety-yackers, just-say-no GOP know-nothings, tea-bag howlers, Sarah Palinistas, et al.), the great majority of Americans support a bold progressive agenda for our country, ranging from Medicare for all to the decentralization and re-regulation of Wall Street. Indeed, in the elections of 2006 and 2008, people voted for a fundamental break from Washington's 30-year push to enthrone a corporate kleptocracy.
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Matt's Pulitzer nod
Our own cartoonist, Matt Wuerker, got the nod from the Pulitzer Prize people to be a finalist for this year's Editorial Cartooning Prize. He didn't win, but Matt's work in Lowdown certainly makes him the most, well, populist of the entire crop! Also, a man not afraid of profundity: When he branched into doing cartoons online for website Politico, we wondered if cartoons are really cartoons if you can't stick 'em on the fridge with a magnet. "The Internet is just a bigger, better refrigerator door," said Matt.