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There are towns in Texas named New Deal, Fair Play, Progresso, Utopia—and even Buck Naked!But what you won’t find is any town called “Moderate, Texas.” I offer this curiosity to the monied powers and milquetoast party leaders who keep insisting that Democrats must moderate their progressive policies, abandon their egalitarian commitments, and become more… well, more corporate.Back the populist rebellionHello – today’s majority hates the everyday arrogance, avarice, and abuse that corporate supremacy has unleashed on workers, consumers, local businesses, family farmers, the poor, the sick, the “different,” our environment… and democracy itself.The time when “captains of industry” were admired [...]
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