Populism

families. However, very few actually understand the political concept and symbolism behind the characters of the story. Every character in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz has a political symbolic meaning. “In this reading – snappily entitled a ‘parable on Populism’ – the Yellow Brick Road represents the gold standard, and the Wicked Witch of the…

Reflection on “Cross the Line: Border Stories” The video starts with a funny activity in Mexico that simulating how the illegal immigrates to cross the US and Mexico border. The participants are mostly Mexican young people, most of them start dreaming to cross the US and Mexico border even before they start elementary school as it mentioned in the video. However, the Mexican government sees the activity as a practice to teach the young people to betray their motherland. So they do not support…

theories were started by the media who used delusive information to mislead the public. Subsequently, news ratings hit the jackpot after this hysteria came about. This mass hysteria, driven by media bias and emotional politics, has contributed to populism the widening gap between Democrats and Republicans and may continue to do so for many years to come. The hysteria…

movement and possible unification of both poor whites and blacks became problematic for the middle-class and elitists. By creating barriers of poll taxes and literacy tests, this decreased corruption and limited populist influence. The decline of populism allowed the rise of the middle-class and Redeemers who believed that “corruption in political life would contaminate business and social relations.” Disfranchisement also allowed violence to be used to repress the black vote. For example,…

Editorial articles are common way for writers to relay arguments pertaining to a specific subject and few subjects have incited more arguments as of late than presidential candidate Donald Trump. One of the most hotly contested aspects of Donald Trump is whether or not his political platform constitutes fascism. Two articles that explore this topic of Donald Trump’s status as a fascist are The Red Phoenix’s Donald Trump and the Rise of Neo-Fascism and Tim Stanley’s Donald Trump is Not a Fascist…

The United State’s ongoing distrust for Iran could be linked to Iran’s 1979 Revolution, which overthrew the American friendly Shah to a radical ayatollah, Khomeini (Lee 2008). Prior to this revolution, the United States and Iran enjoyed good and flourishing relations. As any revolution the Iranian revolution took aim in overthrowing a corrupt regime. Although Islam is very important in the Iranian government today, Islam had little or nothing to do with with the plight or the grief of the…

Mike Davis Planet Of Slums: Final In this essay I am going to explain why Mike Davis places responsibility on the treason of state, international banks, and lending institutions for the horrific conditions in what he describes as the urban south. I will also explain why there is a vast migration from the rural villages to the megacities of the third world. As well as the ideas of thinkers like Hernando de Soto and what Davis sees as his mistaken ideas. Mike Davis offers a…

“Why parties”? According to the American political scientist and author John Aldrich, parties are an endogenous institution. Although much recent literature has focused on the decline of parties, and on the resulting loss of a major historical vehicle for aggregating the interests of this diverse republic, parties have always been no more than a tool of the politicians, the ambitious office seekers, and the officeholders. They have maintained or abused the party system when doing so has…

What is certain though is that conflict is coming and, more likely than not, it’s coming soon. Some may terrorism or populism is the greatest threat to world peace, but put that in contrast to a cold or hot war between two diplomatic, economic, and military superpowers, and those concerns barely register on the map. China is the greatest threat to peace in the twenty first…

over telegraph and telephone rates, can be attributed to Roosevelt’s sheer genius and foresight. Should Taft not have been handpicked by Roosevelt, the progressive movement could easily have lost its foothold in the White House, and fade away, like Populism had just two decades prior. In truth, this did start to occur, when Taft fired Gifford Pinchot—a leader in the progressive community, who worked with Roosevelt on preserving forests and the natural resources that came with them. The…