Populist Movement - End Status Quo Cycle?

From Robert Reich

Which party wants to (1) limit the size of the biggest Wall Street banks, (2) tax financial transactions, (3) have fair trade, not free trade, (4) end NSA spying on Americans, (5) end corporate welfare, and (6) get big money out of politics?

Neither, of course. But over the past year I've found myself in more and more conversations with populists on the right and the left who hold every one of these views. Makes me wonder if we're going to see the emergence of a populist movement or even party in the years ahead, based on these six principles. What do you think?

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I would love it - the sooner the better! What do you think?

It's a possibility, but I myself doubt it unless they merge with another group. As much as I agree with parts of the Green Party's platform, there is much that I don't and I recognize that they, like the Libertarians, are viewed as extreme and aren't likely to be accepted by mainstream. I think what we need is something new that is a blend of the middle/moderate conservative and liberal because that's what's missing and what most of us are (though it doesn't seem it, only because the extremists are the loudest/most vocal):

The ideological middle is dead in Congress. Really dead.
By Chris Cillizza
April 10, 2014

It's not news that the ideological middle in Congress is disappearing. But rarely have I ever seen it so starkly documented as in these two slides courtesy of Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti, a lobbying firm here in D.C. Using National Journal's annual vote ratings, the slides compare the most liberal Republican and the most conservative Democrat and count the number of members in between those two poles.

More intriguing -- and harder to explain -- is how the middle has dropped out of the Senate, which is not subject to redistricting.