Down With the People ("Blame the childish, ignorant American public—not politicians—for our political and economic crisis")
A Slate opinion piece Down With the People that's so depressingly insightful, nobody will want to read it, thus proving it's point. Oh well.
"opinion polls over the last year reflect something altogether more troubling: a country that simultaneously demands and rejects action on unemployment, deficits, health care, climate change, and a whole host of other major problems. Sixty percent of Americans want stricter regulations of financial institutions. But nearly the same proportion says we're suffering from too much regulation on business. That kind of illogic—or, if you prefer, susceptibility to rhetorical manipulation—is what locks the status quo in place"