Is this clever, or what?

Health care was just a small item on their angry agenda.
I can’t help feeling sorry for a lot of the folks who showed up on the Mall. Every major social change (and remaking our medical care system is majorly major) makes people scared. And sadder yet, those people’s fears are being stoked by Dick Armey, media leaders and others who got their noses deep up the asses of the insurance industry.
These are the spiritual descendants of people who’ve been on the wrong side of every major social change since (and including) the Civil War. Trust-busting, national parks, World War II, public works projects, Social Security, Medicare… whatever it is, they’re against it.
The kid of things they do support, tend to be the kind of things that make a lot of money for them and their friends, and impoverish many of us.
These are the folks who brought you the savings and loan debacle in the late 80s, and our current financial woes.
I don’t think they want to do these things; they’ve just victims of their own greed, or ideology, or both. Dick Armey had plenty to do with getting rid of the Glass Stegal Act, which from its inception in the 30s kept our banking system stable, until it was repealed in the 90s (thanks to Bill Clinton as well).
Now look at your bank. It’s like slot machine; you can put your money in, but you don’t necessarily get it out.
But poor the poor people on the Mall Saturday didn’t realize who was leading them. They just knew they’re frightened and angry, and some guy was pointing a finger at a black President and saying “blame him!”
They’re heading off a cliff.