Clearly defined in a Rasmussen survey:
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 75% of Likely Voters prefer free markets over a government managed economy. Just 14% think a government managed economy is better while 11% are not sure…
…America’s Political Class is far less enamored with the virtues of a free market. In fact, Political Class voters narrowly prefer a government managed economy over free markets by a 44% to 37% margin…
The reasons for the Ruling Class feeling like that are quite simple:
1. Government running the economy means more power for the Ruling Class.
2. The Ruling Class is convinced they are individually and collectively smarter than the people, and thus can better decide on the allocation of resources.
It is hard to find someone who would want to go in to government to essentially force the government to do nothing or, at least, do far less than it is doing. Here in Nevada, Harry Reid is hammering Sharron Angle over her completely reasonable – for a non-Ruling Class person – opinion that as a Senator, it wouldn’t be her job to provide jobs for Nevadans. Of course it’s not – the job of a Senator, properly understood, is to ensure that just laws are passed which protect the rights of the State and people of Nevada. Do that, and plenty of jobs will be created by the hard working people of Nevada.
But that doesn’t make for as good a campaign commercial – and it doesn’t allow for a whole series of bribes and kickbacks among various factions of the Ruling Class. Angle wants to be our Senator; Reid wants to be our master.
For a very long time, such opinions as Angle’s probably would have been the kiss of death – but I don’t think they will be in 2010, and the linked poll shows this. The people are on to the scam of the Ruling Class.
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