Hochschild lit out for Louisiana to encounter some of us up close and personal. And it is our view that the federal government has spent 16 years ineptly stifling job growth and betraying our trust in many other ways. Spoiler alert: most Tea Partiers feel that we need good jobs, not government services, most. Hochschild, a progressive Berkeley academic, enormous credit for going over what she aptly calls the “empathy wall” to investigate what she calls “The Great Paradox.” The Great Paradox has been fairly paraphrased by at least two prominent reviewers as “Why is hatred of government most intense among people who need government services most?” Perhaps it has in part morphed, as suggested by Prof. The Tea Party, now, is but a shadow of its former self. Kennedy notwithstanding most of the Washington Post's readers still treated me as an alien belligerent.
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