Liberals Working for the Right

Monday, 18 June 2012 09:29  
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis 

Last week, Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent picked up on a blog post from Democracy editor Michael Tomasky about how liberals should be touting the merits of "government." That is a great idea, if the point is to advance the conservatives' agenda.

It is astounding how liberals are so happy to work for the right by implying that conservatives somehow just want to leave markets to themselves whereas the liberals want to bring in the pointy-headed bureaucrats to tell people what they should do. This view is, of course, nonsense. Pick an issue, any issue, and you will almost invariably find the right actively pushing for a big role for government.