Did you think the Occupy Wall Street movement was started by a bunch of hipsters, the first to really stand up and speak out again the 1%? Huey Long would beg to differ. The one-percenters were the original target of all his righteous fury.

The vocabulary's different, for sure. But what Long was saying was indistinguishable from the Occupy Wall Street and the 1% vs. 99% dichotomy that arose in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis:

• Obscene CEO salaries? Check. 
• Wall Street controlling the politicians? Yep. 
• Tax policies that benefit the wealthy? You betcha.
• Kids going hungry? Sadly, yes.

The real irony here is that Huey Long was closer to being in the upper 10% than he was to being in the bottom 90%. There was a famous tactic he'd use during his campaigns where he'd ask how many of the audience owned three suits: nobody would raise their hand. Two suits? Not a peep. And then he would roar in outrage that J.P. Morgan owned hundreds of suits, a whole closet bigger than the average bedroom. And of course there'd be uproarious applause and he would go on to rant about the gluttony of the wealthy versus the humble poverty of most Americans.

Except, except…Huey Long himself was rumored to have owned well over a hundred suits, and we guarantee you they weren't cheap working man's suits either. (He had a reputation as a colorful, flamboyant dresser.) Nobody realized until much later how inherently hypocritical Long actually was. He was a governor and a senator; not exactly "common man" material. His credibility with the poor came from his own origins in abject poverty, but he sure learned to enjoy the good life.