Grandstanding leaders never deliver, their fury mounts and mounts, and nevertheless they turn out every two years to return their right-wing heroes to office for a second, a third, a twentieth try. The trick never ages; the illusion never wears off. to stop abortion; a rollback in capital gains taxes. to make our country strong again; deindustrialization. to screw those politically correct college professors; electricity deregulation. to get government off our backs; conglomeration and monopoly everywhere from media to meatpacking. to stand tall against terrorists; Social Security privatization. to strike a blow against elitism; a social order in which wealth is more concentrated then ever before in our lifetimes, in which workers have been stripped of power and CEOs are rewarded in a manner beyond imagining.
Thomas Frank