[lbo-talk] most Americans no fan of stimulus program

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Aug 19 04:50:07 PDT 2009


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



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