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Frances Moore Lappe: One Nation, After All?

The vote is in. Health insurance rules and options will now offer Americans some greater protection. But in recent weeks opponents' charges have gotten so wild -- "Idolatrous Statism!" "Totalitarianism!" -- and hate-filled acts so egregious -- the spitting of racial slurs at black Congressmen -- many wonder how a nation so bitterly split can move forward. It is hard to imagine any democracy working in which so many citizens seem to hate government, a cavernous divide separates public opinion, and a fringe even calls for secession. In a recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey 56 percent agreed that the federal government's become so large and powerful that it "poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens." Among Independents and Republicans, between six and seven out of ten hold this view. Some see anti-government sentiment simply as the American way.

 

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