In the 1880s and 1890s, a prairie wildfire swept through American politics. The generation of pioneers that had taken the risk to head out west and take advantage of Abe Lincoln’s Homestead Act, where our government literally gave away free land to any poor and working class people, had successfully battled terrible weather and intense loneliness. They had worked their butts off to become farmers and ranchers, and made a good life for themselves.
But when railroad barons, Wall Street bankers, and oil monopolists began to squeeze them and make it tougher and tougher to make a living farming and ranching, they rose up and started organizing a populist movement that changed American politics and policies. States like the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma rebelled against pro-big business politicians, and much of what they demanded- breaking up the big corporate trusts, tougher financial regulations, easier credit, Social Security, a minimum wage, an 8 hour work day and no child labor, women’s suffrage, stronger labor unions- eventually became incorporated in the reforms of the Progressive era of the early 1900s and the New Deal of the 1930s.
Eventually, though, those Plains States became much more conservative, and are now among the reddest of the red states politically. Something is going on out there, though. In this strange political year, where most pundits and historical trends suggest that it is likely to be a Republican year, the Plains States are shaking things up. While it isn’t exactly like the Populist movement of old, there is a growing rebellion in these states that suggests the current brand of extreme conservatism may not be going down so well in these normally Republican states.
I pray that this article is more likely true than not if so are the media outlets and polls who predict another 2010 republican psych out of American's by pulling the wool over the voters eyes with 2010 promise of jobs that never materialized and the few thousand temp jobs that keystone would create makes more money for the business than any Americans it might employ.
are they only polling demographics favorable to republicans or with ownership changes are they on board the republican ship that is torpedoing America from the right wing those well places propaganda outlets are enough to spread the rumor of republican wins are we not better than that, being sucked in to their misinformation and going against our own well being well at least 51 % of us are which at last count 2008 2012 was enough to quash the same predictions of republican sweeps.
we know all the skullduggery they embrace voter suppression, gerrymandering but courts appear to be doing the correct thing striking them down all is not lost but all is at stake, starting with Nov. 4th, you are not alone there are millions of us out there ready for Nov. 4th let's create our own independence day and show them we can show up.
