Where Populism Flourished

President Barack Hussein Obama was in Huey Long mode for parts of the State of the Union address. Obama has always been at war with what had been defined as success in America from his college days, but carefully concealed this with the aid of his handmaiden media except for the Joe the plumber moment when the Marxist inside slipped out. Redistributionists help themselves and their cronies- any assistance to the less fortunate is political calculation aimed at self-serving advancement or purely incidental. "Two chickens in every pot" often meant that the politician promoting that message sold the pot, taxed it, and then left the citizen with hungry family with one wing from the two chickens, but had quite a meal for himself and his cadre of corrupt backers. Populism in Louisiana was routinely accompanied by bribes, kickbacks, and assorted (sordid) malfeasance. And now we have an old time Daley machine flunky and his Rahm it through cabal made good (oh so good, from the Chicago cronyism perspective), promising a jihad against major banks and insurers to further pretend Robin Hood aims of taking from the rich but only to give to themselves.