Litmus
The 'Occupy Wall Street' protest has offered a fine opportunity for Populist-sounding types on the Repooflican side to show us their true colors. And indeed they have.
The Tea Party, which claimed at one point to be representing Main Street against Wall Street, has kicked the Occupy movement hard.
Gotcha. Not that I'm surprised. It was clear from the start that Tea Party was a false flag operation by Wall Street. (Some of the charter members appear to have been real Populists, but by the time it started growing it was a branch of Goldman.)
Now Herman Cain, allegedly pro-Main Street, has called the Occupy folks "anti-American".
Gotcha. In your mind, Wall Street IS America, so any insult to Wall Street is an insult to America.
Needless to say, no point in even checking the litmus paper of the non-Populist types such as Goldman Sachs dba "Mitt Romney", Goldman Sachs dba "Rush Limbaugh", Goldman Sachs dba "Fox News", etc, etc, etc, etc, etc. Every word they say is perfectly predictable in advance, no chance of the tiniest surprise.
On the exact opposite hand, Buddy Roemer
firmly supports the Occupiers. Now there's a REAL Populist, there's my candidate.