The right is angry and it should be.

[followthemoney]

The Republicans believed the forces of history were on their side and that this would be the Republican Millennium. How could things have gone so wrong? The Norquist prescription for perpetual rule was foolproof, a trap from which no exit was possible.

Now, after so high a cost has been paid, all is in the balance on health care. The national debt under the Bush presidency was increased toward the ten trillion dollar mark. The total privatization of all government functions was to result in an extremely wealthy and powerful private sector. The shrunken government was to be floating face down in its bath water.

The plan was to bankrupt the nation so that no progressive thought of universal health care could be possible. The economic situation was to be so dire that only the regressive options of discontinuation of Medicare and Social Security were to be on the table. The devastation of the economy was to make sure that privatization would be complete and that government would be out of the picture.

It is imperative for the right that health care reform fails. Their major investments are now about to either pay off, or go bust as a total loss. The crisis is now at a peak and to which ever side of this peak the action now moves, either toward total privatization or back to big government, the momentum will build and become irresistible.

All of the people screaming at town hall meetings are trying to move the consensus away from any option posing a threat to private privilege.

The vision of a bankrupt nation owned by a minority of private citizens now faces obstacles in the form of a demand for the resolution of the health care crisis. At this time, and by the Norquist theory of history, this should not be happening.

[EC]

1. That's because we are really a liberal country

it's just that 1/2 the country lays-back at voting time, unless things had really gotten bad...like this last election...then they vote

[felinetta]

2. I remember Bill Clinton saying the Repubs thought they should never lose another election. But alas!

[byronius]

3. Their hysteria is both scary and strangely fun to watch.

Like crazy little children lost in a nightmare of their own making. I prefer the vicarious thrill -- I wouldn't want to live in their mind.

I just read "The Last Campaign", about RFK -- the chilling comment from one of the reporters that 'They let us have it for three years. Now, we don't even get to the election, and they take it away.'

'They' are still misinformed and frightened enough to resort to murder, after forty years.

They Live.

[Canuckistanian]

4. Excellent analysis, thanks

But you're describing the motives of the people in charge, not the poor schlubs in the town halls.

Their anger is not based on such abstract ideas.

Luckily, there are those who have the ability to inject false ideas and concepts directly to the "ground troops".

I doubt whether these disruptors know or care about such fine idealogical points. They just react to outrageous falsehoods and imagined societal "horrors".

[tbyrd]

5. Nice

Nice analysis...

[followthemoney]

6. I am amused at the number of unrecs this posting has received.

A shallow reading could assume a sympathetic understanding of the rabid right.

The intent of this post is to suggest the right's anger does have a basis but it is due to the failure of their own leadership to establish the totally privatized economy they have demanded on an ideological basis.

The collapsed economy and extreme debt incurred during the Bush terms was to make the government unaccountable to the people and unable to restrain the extremes of corporations by democratic means in the interest of democracy.

I am interested in criticisms that find this analysis flawed.

Please post them if you have them.