Richard Connor,editor and publisher of the Times Leader, captured this movement best without it being the topic of his Opinion. He was discussing the current political fight over the passage of the healthcare bill.
So, there is not much really new about this fight. Universal health care coverage is new. But the view many persons in the country have of it are not much different than the views Calhoun held about laws passed in Congress in his day. Calhoun believed those laws were out of step with the views of the majority of voters.
“The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised,” he said over a century ago.
There is ample polling evidence that the votes in Congress on health care reform do not match the sentiments of a majority in the public. And this is not new, either.
“A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks,” said Calhoun.
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