Sharon Begley practices a little pop psychology in the latest Newsweek, explaining that voters? anger is stopping them from embracing such worthwhile government policies as bailouts and federal health care reform:
While anxious voters seek out many sources of information, angry ones ?want to rally round their convictions,? says Marcus. ?They?re not interested in objective information, but only in the kind that reinforces what they believe.? Democrats can therefore bombard talk shows and op-ed pages and blogs with studies showing that TARP prevented a financial implosion or that the health-care-reform law will save billions of dollars, but many of the voters they need to reach aren?t hearing it.
I wonder if this means Begley is angry about the climate. Perhaps that?s the reason she clings to global warming alarmism despite all the evidence against it.
