US Voters Drink Reaganism's Kool-Aid

[SHRED]

This is a fairly long read but outstanding points made.

US Voters Drink Reaganism's Kool-Aid
By Robert Parry
November 3, 2010

Already weakened by three decades of slow arsenic poisoning from Reaganism, the United States ordered up a new dose of Ronald Reagan’s special “government is the problem” elixir in Election 2010 – and it is hard to envision how this willing victim will soon, if ever, recover.

Perhaps the most telling of all the exit polls from Tuesday was that a solid majority of voters declared that they thought “government is doing too many things better left to businesses and individuals,” paraphrasing Reagan’s favorite political theme, one that has been at the center of America’s stunning decline.

Animus against Big Government has always had a populist appeal and surely some of Washington’s clunky actions have fed this disdain. But Reaganism is, in essence, the populist, smiling face of Big Money ruthlessly neutralizing the one institution that could threaten corporate dominance of America, a democratized and energized federal government.

Today’s victorious corporate Republican chieftains and their Tea Party foot soldiers are just the latest embodiment of Reagan’s dark legacy. They favor cutting taxes for the rich; slashing social programs; reducing regulations on corporations; weakening the power of unions; ignoring needed investments in national infrastructure; disdaining environmental science; and trusting “the magic of the market.”

SOURCE CONTINUED:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/110310.html

[katty]

1. most of the Tea Partiers constituents are on social programs

they are media whore shills for corporatist interests.

[KansDem]

2. "Governmentt is doing too many things better left to businesses and individuals,”

It will never fail to amaze me how we can even remotely believe that powerful CEOs, acting in secret on behalf of investors, will have the best interests of this country at heart.

Give the rich more money and they'll invest in America? :rofl:

The last 30 years have proven this doesn't work!

[MuseRider]

3. Thank you for this

the timing could not be perfect. My brother who is still living with us just walked in and said that Reaganomics saved our country and Reagan was the best president there ever would be. He would not listen to me at all, would not hear a thing because it would just be my socialist take on things. I was getting ready to come here and find a bunch of information that I could use to at least back up my point. It will not make any difference, he followed it up yelling at me because our orchestra and doing a "Holiday" concert and I should not play it. This guy is an atheist but worships from the alter of Bill O. He makes no sense to me at all but I keep pushing with real info and he keeps denying that even government documents are anything but socialist crap.

Anyway, thanks. I read a little but will go back and read the rest.

[SHRED]

4. my pleasure