The electorate should get a grip: AIG isn't the prime enemy

THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter<

Populism is the crudest embodiment of democratic expression, chiefly because it harbors a mob mentality over individual reason and is therefore the ideal tool of demagogues.

It's all heart and no brain. It often means well, but also leans to the morbidly shortsighted -- a shortsightedness hatched of a usually justified anger, but unmindful of unwanted consequences.