"Why Americans Are So Angry" at the Economist
Why Americans Are So Angryat the Economist/Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-americans-are-so-angry-2013-12
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Trust in institutions has risen and fallen over that same post-war period in line with external events, plunging after the Watergate scandal, for instance, and during recessions. Yet something new seems to be happening. Anti-government cynicism is feeding on gulfs in society.
Conservatives think Democrats buy votes with welfare
Consider the crisis around Obamacare. Forget fussing about its useless website: websites can be fixed. The president’s headache is that voters see his plan as welfare for the poor rather than a better way of delivering medical care.
That is exposing ugly divisions. Most starkly, a majority of whites think the law will make life worse for them, a National Journal poll found, while most non-whites believe it will help people like them. That in turn tallies with a big change over the previous 15 years: a collapse in support among conservatives for government safety nets.
This is America’s real problem with trust. The country faces a crisis of mutual resentment, masquerading as a general collapse in national morale. Sharply-delineated voter blocs are alarmingly willing to believe that rival groups are up to no good or taking more than their fair share. Polls describing America as a hell-hole of corruption are not to be taken literally. They are a warning. America is not a low-trust society. But it risks becoming one.
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"The president’s headache is that voters see his plan as welfare for the poor rather than a better way of delivering medical care."
That's right, "voters" see his plan as welfare. Uh-huh, all voters, every last motherfucking one of them, which explains how it got through Congress, vehemently and violently opposed as it was by countless millions of Americans back in the far-off days of 2009 and early 2010.
It wouldn't have anything to do with "low-information voters" (a.k.a. "morons"
and the Fox News Disinfotron playing 24/7, unlimited contributions from dark money groups and 1,001 astroturf flowers blooming from the rank and reeking sewage disposal swales hastily and ineptly installed to handle the coliform load from the rotting corpse of Reagan's "legacy".
No, no, it's that all the voters hate the plan. That's it. Uh-huh.
