Glenn Greenwald: Who are the undeserving "others" benefiting from expanded government actions?

[deminks]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/index.html

The New York Times' Ross Douthat argues, uncontroversially, that the tea-party protests, townhall outbursts and related appendages aren't about specific health care proposals but, instead, are motivated by a more generalized anger over what is happening in Washington:



At the same time, become the vessel for a year’s worth of anxieties about bailouts, deficits and Beltway incompetence.

This August’s town-hall fury wasn’t just about the details of health care. Neither were the anti-Obama protests that crowded Washington over the weekend. They were about the Wall Street bailout, the G.M. takeover, the A.I.G. bonuses, and countless smaller examples of middle-income Americans’ "playing by the rules," as Luntz puts it, "and having someone else benefit."



Notably, Douthat never specifies the identity of this so-called "someone else" who, as a result of government behavior, is unfairly benefiting from the hard work of middle-class Americans, but he gives a clue when he compares current anger over the health care bill to the anger over the 1994 crime bill, which he argues drove Democrats out of, and Newt Gingrich into, Beltway power:

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In other words, the 1994 fury over the crime bill was driven by the belief that the Clinton-led federal government would steal money from middle-class Americans and give it to "midnight basketball" programs, i.e., "welfare" recipients. The racial and class-war components of that fear-mongering campaign were manifest: Bill Clinton wanted to steal the money of "'middle-income Americans playing by the rules" and transfer it to the inner-city (see Ta-Nehisi Coates' examination of the racial, class and similar cultural appeals that fueled vitriolic right-wing attacks on Clinton).

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I think this nails it. The right wing nutters are afraid the gubment will take their whatever away, and some other poor group will benefit, thus they must hate them. It isn't another poor group that benefits. It never is. It is the corporofatshits and their lobbyist goons that always benefit. Always. The poor didn't benefit from the bailouts of Wall Street. The immigrants won't benefit from health care.

This is what is the matter with Kansas, South Carolina, and every other state currently in the Union.

[tularetom]

1. They don't give a rats ass if a bunch of rich pigs on Wall St take their $

They're just worried some of it might go to somebody with darker skin than theirs.

[bettyellen]

2. oh yeah, i knew a gal who went and said it had nothing to do ith money- LOL....

and she eventually did talk that talk abot "giveaways" .
moron.

[DoctorMyEyes]

3. They've let themselves be convinced

They've let themselves be convinced that poor people buying houses through ACORN caused the financial meltdown that lead to bailing out Wall Street. And that Obama forced the banks to lend to people who couldn't afford loans. I shit you not.

They're batshit crazy stupid and already have fashioned a way to blame every ill in their world on poor immigrants and black people.