Americans Fear Big Government
Realclearpolitics.com has an excellent piece covering a recent Gallup poll showing Americans fear Big Government much more than Big Business:
One more indicator came Monday that the Great Recession has not yet greatly altered Americans view of big business or big government. A clear majority of Americans continue to view government as the "biggest threat to the country in the future," far more than name big business, according to Gallup.
Gallup has asked since 1965 which three institutions--big government, big business or big labor--pose the greatest threat to nation's future? Big government has led the list every year.
On Monday, Gallup reported that 55 percent of Americans view big government as the biggest threat, while 32 percent say big business and only 10 percent say big labor. This is statistically identical to what the poll found in December 2008.
This flies in the face of Nancy Pelosi's attacks on the Tea Parties. She said they were 'astroturf': artificial protests funded by Republican fat cats.
One thing the pundits aren't discussing: the Republicans are held in such contempt (only 25% of Americans call themselves Republicans) because they're too liberal. Most Americans want politicians to be like Ronald Reagan than different from him.
It will just take one strong conservative nominee to put a Republican back in the White House. Hopefully, one can be found, and -once they are found- nominated.
posted by Matthew Canonicus at
12:06 AM
2 Comments:
Here is the problem: Americans say they, "Fear Big Governemnt" because they have been taught that. Unfortunately, they vote for everything that creates BIG GOVERNMENT. See the disconnect.
I'm not sure what the Republican party is going to emmerge as. There are a good number of them that want to ditch conservatives but I think many conservatives may ditch them first. There's a lot of pushing and pulling going on with three parties, that I know of hoping to be able to ride conservative activism to power.
I'm with Lucy too and I think a good part of America is undereducated in American history, the Constition, and economics. Having the banks directly controlled by the president with nationalization looming in the future is the scariest thing that has ever happened to America, in my lifetime. There are many though who don't understand what is wrong with that and that is the really scary part.
I still think that conservatives are the majority though and somehow, we'll prevail in the end. I just don't know how long it will take to get to the end. Now they are discussing taxing the air we breath. That is beyond big government, that's big brother.
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