What's wrong with this description of a teabagger from Idaho?
SANDPOINT, Idaho — Pam Stout has not always lived in fear of her government. She remembers her years working in federal housing programs, watching government lift struggling families with job training and education. She beams at the memory of helping a Vietnamese woman get into junior college.
But all that was before the Great Recession and the bank bailouts, before Barack Obama took the White House by promising sweeping change on multiple fronts, before her son lost his job and his house. Mrs. Stout said she awoke to see Washington as a threat, a place where crisis is manipulated — even manufactured — by both parties to grab power.
Here's how it's all -- or mostly -- about race. The far-right is against punishing the banks, so it can't be the bank bailouts. The far-right also supported a massive increase in the size of government, unitary executive power grabs and unconstitutional measures fueled by fear-mongering over the very remote threat of terrorism. And Mrs. Stout is suddenly worried now? I smell bullshit.
Adding... The healthcare crisis isn't manufactured. People are going broke and dying. The horror stories are readily available online. Just Google "health insurance horror story" and see how "manufactured" the crisis is. Furthermore, look at any bar graph of the economy as of one year ago or any basic jobs number and tell me if the crisis is manufactured. Hell, this woman's son lost his house! How can she possibly suggest the economic crisis was manufactured? Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit.
Then, on the other hand, look at numerous studies about the instances of terrorism and the odds of an American dying in a domestic terrorist attack. And then tell me which crisis is manufactured or exaggerated.
These people are pissed because there isn't a doddering old white guy in the White House -- like they're used to. That's what this is all about.