If the Howard Beales of the right devoted as much attention to denouncing the ignorance, as well as hypocrisies, of our times, their networks of rage would cancel each other out.
By way of example, first this, from this morning's Post:
If the midterms are in part a referendum on the size, scope and effectiveness of the federal government, older voters [according to a new WaPo/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard U. poll] appear poised to deliver a rebuke to the Obama administration.
Then this, from this morning's NY Times:
Banks spent billions of dollars in the good times to build vast mortgage machines that made new loans, bundled them into securities and sold those investments worldwide. Lowly servicing became an afterthought. Even after the housing bubble began to burst, many of these operations languished with inadequate staffing and outmoded technology, despite warnings from regulators.... Now banks are ill-equipped to deal the foreclosure process.
Yet the myth -- capitalism = efficiency/effectiveness, government = inefficiency/ineffectiveness; you know, such as private healthcare's 20-30 percent overhead costs versus Medicare's 2 percent -- endures.