Anand Giridharadas sayeth the unsayable, and discovers the real class warfare behind the Tea Party:
Ms. Palin may be hinting at a new political alignment that would pit a vigorous localism against a kind of national-global institutionalism.On one side would be those Americans who believe in the power of vast, well-developed institutions like Goldman Sachs, the Teamsters Union, General Electric, Google and the U.S. Department of Education to make the world better. On the other side would be people who believe that power, whether public or private, becomes corrupt and unresponsive the more remote and more anonymous it becomes; they would press to live in self-contained, self-governing enclaves that bear the burden of their own prosperity.Unfortunately, he ascribes this to Palin in particular, and not the Tea Party in general. But hey, baby steps.
No comments:
Post a Comment