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Populist Party Platform, 1892. (It could have been written for today)

The populists of the 1890’s arose in response to the Robber Baron excesses of that Gilded Age of robbery and plunder by a few against the many – an era quite a lot like ours.
Update the language in their 1892 platform, and it could be written about our current times.
The conditions which surround us best [...]