Ist you Ist or Ist You Ain't My Ism?

Well.

Since last November 8, I've felt little urgency about this blogging thing. Whatever effect my posts may have had on the two or three people who read them have been dwarfed by the phenomenon of those elections.

There has been a tremendous change of some sort- that is to say, a lot of people have pulled the lever that says "stop". Stop what? That's where the pundits step in.

They've been trying to "explain" this for several weeks now, and one trend I notice is that many say that Democrats should be cautious about reading too much into their victory. Pundits warn against "populism".

Now, apparently, Populism is a very bad thing. Populism starts from the idea that the people know what's best for them. I don't see how that's a bad thing, but I do understand how that can go bad, particularly when political leaders use populist ideas to whip up hate.

But in this case, it seems, the people made a decision on their own. There wasn't one single issue, or one charismatic leader, to focus on this time. It seems to me that instead of that there was a string of failures and lies and examples of corruption stretching back for years. People are sick of it.

There's no need to work too hard to pin an "ism" on it. It's simply people expressing themselves with their votes. I hope someone is listening.