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See, there is this stupid group effect. These reporter sorts all went to the same schools all of us did and they got told the Official Version of American history- Plymouth Rock and Pilgrims and turkeys at Thanksgiving and all that. Then they got journalism training and went to work for places that treat news as perishable consumer goods, and they ended up in Washington. In Washington they found out that the government is a semicorrupt outfit that is generally used sort of trivially, to benefit a select few, and functionally a mediocr-acy. They got used to it- mediocrity as the central tenet is pretty easy to live with for most people who get paid well.
Then Bill and Hillary Clinton show up in 1992, the greatest change in that outfit in a generation. There are then two takes on what the Clintons did with/to Washington. One is that they did the remarkable- they set the place to actually doing some Good, a thing that inherently violated the religious tenets of most people who felt possessive about the federal government and the federal budget. The other is that the Clintons were Eeeevil Incarnate, perversely using money and government effort to help people who needed it but weren't The Entitled Class Of People.
So that's what I think the Kool Kids are talking about when they bring their ridiculous crap to the fore in columns and on TV talk shows. This stunningly aberrant idea of using government to help rather than abuse the common people just has to be stopped before the voters come to think that it's a good one. Long live the covert colonialism (oops, that's "free market capitalism" now) and its exploiteering class, the corporate bosses.
In short, the media are the Fifth column of the conservatives. They really do, in part unintentionally, defend the imaginary world of white people and 'capitalism' and class entitlement once indoctrinated to the older generations as children, not understanding that as a political act in a country in which all these things are now at best fragile conventions. They're in denial.
And so the Clintons have to be pilloried as harbingers of something alien and frightful, not as the representatives of the social reality and the impending dismantling of nineteenth century socioeconomic arrangements and conventions that they actually were.
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