... The idea that you should care at least as much for "the common man" as you do about those powerful interests is liberal ideology - the one shared by pretty much everyone in America except the powerful interests. But people in the media - even the internet media - still make the mistake of thinking ideology can be categorized in terms of whether you identify yourself as conservative or liberal, Democrat or Republican. It can't. Even half of rank-and-file Republicans have liberal ideology where government is concerned, they just don't know that's what it is. They may watch Fox News and see a world where Democrats waste time on silly left-wing junk, but when you listen to their concerns, they are the same things liberals are concerned about: They want to live in a world where they have the right to an honest day's pay for an honest day's work and the right to be left alone to live our lives. They are absolutely right that what we had of that has been slipping away. Many of them blame the Democrats or liberals because obviously wrong things like NAFTA happened under a supposedly liberal Democratic president who they have been led to believe was having affairs and paying attention to rich corporations and silly liberal stuff like gays in the military when he should have been paying attention to them...
The main$tream has framed the issues for the rubes since well before the Maine blew up in Havanna. The 20th century saw the rise of the slickest propaganda machine ever to hold the minds of the masses. Call it the CIA or the Company or Madison Avenue, it all feeds on itself and has but one goal, to sell you on a worldview that keeps you in thrall to the $ystem.
The false dichotomy of liberal and conservative keeps us constantly looking for the lesser of two evils without thinking about killing the beast entirely.
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