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"Compared to Rall's usual fare, this column shimmers with truth. There are the usual clangers - stop torturing terrorists and start torturing bankers, capitalism is dead, etc.
I was rooting for him all the way up to the end, like a halfback breaking for the goal line who trips over his own feet and goes down at the 3-yard line: "By mid-2009 America had become a left-wing country, not in the media but among the citizenry, telling polls that their preferred economic system was socialism."
Um, no. That's not what the citizenry was trying to tell the polls. By mid-2009, we had a Tea Party. The Tea Party - contrary to Rall's and the Leftmedia's belief - is not a bunch of whack jobs seething with rage, but mainly polite, middle-aged and elderly people whose mission statement seems to be "excuse us please, but we'd like our country back."
What the Tea Party would like - and the majority of us who work for a living, pay taxes, and produce things of value without dependence on public funds - is lower taxes, freedom to produce, invest, build wealth, and in the end be able to pass that wealth to our children, not have it confiscated by government that can't pay for itself.
It's too much to expect that Rall - or any other leftist - is going to ever be able to grasp that argument. They're too mired in statist groupthink "for the greater good"."
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