The New Populist Left

As I posted below, using the generic term "liberal" for Okie Funk/Dr. Kurt is technically incorrect, according to the purpose statement in the upper right margin of his blog "Providing Populist and Liberal information and ideas...".

While there is virtually no information about Populism or liberalism on his blog, it's very easy to figure out what Okie Funk is AGAINST ...the war, the Imperialist Bush Presidency, the neoconservative whatever, the Miltary-Industrial Complex and the threat of the Christian right are his major targets... (aside from rightwing Democrats lately...lol) but never do you get a glimpse of what Okie Funk is in FAVOR of. In the "ideas" department he is severely lacking for a college professor.
He supports and obviously votes Democrat (providing he votes) but Democrats are not far enough to the left to suit this liberal populist.
Populist Liberal...Liberal Leftist ...Leftist Populist... hmmm let's see if we can find examples in the wide world of sports where Leftist liberals and Populist parties combined.

Leftists and Populists Combine, Pose Threat To Democracy

April 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "The results of the latest and most comprehensive study of public opinion in the Americas concludes that Latin America is drifting toward the political left and experiencing a rise in populism.

The power shift away from government institutions and toward charismatic leaders who claim to know "the will of the people" could weaken democracy in the region, according to the study."

But how can the Left and Populists agree you ask?

"While leftists certainly have held power in the past, never before in Latin America have so many countries been governed by presidents of the left, even though the variation of leftist ideology is great, running from Presidents Lula in Brazil and Bachellet in Chile, both of whom support free trade and close ties with the U.S., to Chavez in Venezuela, who openly espouses socialist, anti-capitalist, anti-U.S. doctrines," Seligson said.

At the same time, populist governments are on the rise. What unifies these governments is "not their left-right orientation. Rather it is a core belief that the institutions of classical liberal democracy, especially the legislature and the courts, are anachronistic, inefficient and inconsistent with their own interpretation of the 'will of the people.'"

The result, Seligson said, is "populist leaders propose instead to listen to 'the people' and to personally carry out their will, while isolating the 'rejectionists,' usually running roughshod over fundamental democratic guarantees of civil liberties, especially free expression and the right to due process".... (and are) "...willing to follow the sharply leftist and strongly populist lead of Hugo Chavez.

Another article about the new Left and Populists describes the term Populist like this

Latin American Leaders Reinvent the Left

"The term (Populist) has come to mean short-term pandering to the masses at the expense of the long-term good for all. Similar policies left many Latin American nations deeply in debt and doomed to boom-and-bust economic cycles."

And finally we cut through all of the mumbo-jumbo to the bottom line definition in terms of the New Populists and Latin America from the Venezuelan News and Analysis website...

"Any moderately intelligent person knows that there is actually no significant difference between populism, marxism or socialism."

So are we to believe that Okie Funk is demanding to rebuild the Democrat party in the image of Hugo and Fidel?

We can only speculate, but two things are for sure... Okie Funk/Dochoc/Dr Kurt isn't demanding to rebuild the Democrat party in the image of the current Democrat party nor in the image of the Republican party or anything else we would recognize as pro American... that is certain.

It's time Oklahoman's new the truth about Dr. Kurt Hochenauer and the Leftist Populist movement.

I was able to find this nugget tucked away in the diaries over at Blue Oklahoma where DocHoc (Dr Kurt) posts on a regular basis along with regular posts at the Daily Kos.

"What we need now is a new populist movement in Oklahoma, a movement that will sweep out the new dregs of disguised fascism and restore democracy and opportunity to our state."

Glad I could be the one to clear this up, but it was a lot easier when I could just call him a moonbat.

Here is a link to the Midwest Populist Party of America... isn't it odd though that Okie Funk doesn't have any links to any populist info sites considering this is one of the main purposes of his blog?