Brief Observation

by digby

Reading through this NY Times poll, one can only conclude that there is a hard core 30 percent of people in this country who are just against anything they think the Democrats and Obama are for. It doesn’t even have to make sense. Fine, no surprise. These are the same people who thought George W. Bush was an appreciated genius.

But even more clear is that most people don’t have a clue about the details of anything. It’s a complicated world and it’s clear that they only have the vaguest impressions of what’s at stake. What they know at the moment is that health care reform is probably good but possibly bad, and that they are sick of being at war. Other than that, you can pretty much fill in the blanks.

I think the most important thing that’s happening right now is an angry, frustrated, frightened zeitgeist. You can feel it in your personal interactions and see it on the news. Society is a little bit unstable. The political factions that are best able to speak to that — for good or ill — are probably going to be the most successful.

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