[lbo-talk] Analysis of Tea Party

[Andy]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> [WS:] That is not how I read the article.  I do not think that he argues
> that people are "genuinely tired or angry."  Au contraire.  His argument is
> that people are delusionally over-confident in their own selves and what
> they can accomplish "on their own" - and as a result see the institutions
> and society as an impediment of their own will and capacity.  Consequently,
> they tend to listen only to those who cater to their inflated sense of ego
> (mainly right wing demagogues) and ignore other messages and even common
> sense.  Reaganism is a product of that mentality, not the cause.

That's what I got out of it too.

-- 
Andy