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\"tea-party-signs\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Tim Lee adds a much-needed dose of sanity to the anti-big-government movement.\u00a0 Full post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Is the Tea Party \u201cthe most dynamic anti-big government political movement in modern American politics?\u201d I think it\u2019s helpful here to unpack the concept of \u201canti-big government,\u201d because the right uses it in a peculiar and rather perverse fashion.<\/p>\n

In the conservative (and fusionist<\/a>) worldview, government activities are evaluated using a simplistic \u201csize of government\u201d metric that treats every dollar of government spending as equally bad, regardless of how it\u2019s used. This has some unfortunate results. It means that cutting children\u2019s health care spending is just as good as cutting a dollar from subsidies for wealthy corporations. And since wealthy corporations typically have lobbyists and poor children don\u2019t, the way this works out in practice is that conservative politicians staunchly oppose<\/a> the former while letting the latter slide.<\/p>\n

Worse, mainstream conservatives give programs involving the military and law enforcement a free pass. Conservatives vociferously (and correctly<\/a>) oppose<\/a> giving the FCC expanded power over the Internet, but they actively supported the NSA\u2019s much more comprehensive and intrusive<\/a> scheme of domestic surveillance. Conservatives support<\/a> a massive expansion of government power at our southern border to restrict the freedom of Mexican migrants. They seem unconcerned by the fact that we have more people in government-run prisons<\/a> than any other nation on Earth.<\/p>\n

This distinction makes no sense. When American soldiers gun down Iraqi civilians<\/a> and blow up a van that comes to rescue the survivors, that\u2019s a government program.<\/em> When a SWAT team conducts a military-style raid<\/a> on the home of an innocent Maryland mayor and kills his dogs, that\u2019s a government program too. Obviously, law enforcement and national defense are important functions of government, but these highly coercive government programs should be the subject of more<\/em> public scrutiny, not less.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In-depth investigation of plutocratic interests behind the Tea Party and global warming denialism movements here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim Lee adds a much-needed dose of sanity to the anti-big-government movement.\u00a0 Full post here. Is the Tea Party \u201cthe most dynamic anti-big government political movement in modern American politics?\u201d I think it\u2019s helpful here to unpack the concept of \u201canti-big government,\u201d because the right uses it in a peculiar and rather perverse fashion. 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