On Aug 19, 2009, at 4:52 AM, John Gulick wrote:
> Yeah, my impression (and it's only an impression) is that the hard
> right media
> (in its myriad incarnations) consciously tried to steer inchoate
> populist anger
> about the Wall Street bailout into ideological spleen against big
> guv, as if the
> bailout was the sine qua non of state intervention. To some extent
> this probably
> explains the cognitively dissonant insurgency against health care
> "reform."
The "hard right" doesn't have to do all that much work to get this reaction. Hatred of big gov is pretty instinctive American common sense.
Doug