{"id":12567,"date":"2009-05-01T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/arthur_brooks_the_real_culture_war_is_over_capitalism\/"},"modified":"2009-05-01T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T15:00:17","slug":"arthur_brooks_the_real_culture_war_is_over_capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12567","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Brooks: The Real Culture War Is Over Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still, the tea parties are not based on the cold wonkery of budget data. They are based on an &#8220;ethical populism.&#8221; The protesters are homeowners who didn&#8217;t walk away from their mortgages, small business owners who don&#8217;t want corporate welfare and bankers who kept their heads during the frenzy and don&#8217;t need bailouts. They were the people who were doing the important things right &#8212; and who are now watching elected politicians reward those who did the important things wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Voices in the media, academia, and the government will dismiss this ethical populism as a fringe movement &#8212; maybe even dangerous extremism. In truth, free markets, limited government, and entrepreneurship are still a majoritarian taste. In March 2009, the Pew Research Center asked people if we are better off &#8220;in a free market economy even though there may be severe ups and downs from time to time.&#8221; Fully 70% agreed, versus 20% who disagreed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124104689179070747.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still, the tea parties are not based on the cold wonkery of budget data. They are based on an &#8220;ethical populism.&#8221; The protesters are homeowners who didn&#8217;t walk away from their mortgages, small business owners who don&#8217;t want corporate welfare<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12567\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,616,151,667,587,583,586,596,601,669,598,594,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-taxes","category-the-2009-obama-administration-bank-bailout-plan","category-the-2009-obama-administration-housing-amelioration-plan","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-fiscal-stimulus-package-of-2009","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-possibility-of-a-bailout-for-the-u-s-auto-industry","category-the-september-2008-proposed-henry-paulson-700-billion-bailout-package","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}