Reply #8: I am from The Peoples Republic of Cascadia. [View All]

[Buck Rabbit]

Western Oregon and Western Washington.

I use "populist" the same as you do but realize that both meanings "will of the majority" versus "for the good of the majority" are currently being used, making the term vague when further clarifiers are not provided. Kind of like "libertarian".

I saw a heated debate here on the board by someone with an extreme dislike for capital "L" libertarians, (free market extremists, the political party) and two posters who are "leftist libertarians" or "social libertarians", as most of us are on the board. Saying "I am a libertarian" can be extremely confusing when you are merely referring to individual social freedoms but oppose unregulated free market and minimalist government.

I am opposed to the "Populist - will of the people" in countries where the media is "owned" and education at the university level is not universally available. The US university system is our biggest institutionalized filter to limit economic opportunities for the poorer classes.