Anti-government political ideology,on the right AND THE LEFT, has gone so far as to constitute a pillar in current US anti-working class and white supremacist political thinking and ritual.


When the freakout was at its peak, Ebola wasn’t just a disease — it was a political metaphor. It was, specifically, held up by America’s right wing as a symbol of government failure. The usual suspects claimed that the Obama administration was falling down on the job, but more than that, they insisted that conventional policy was incapable of dealing with the situation. Leading Republicans suggested ignoring everything we know about disease control and resorting to extreme measures like travel bans, while mocking claims that health officials knew what they were doing.
Guess what: Those officials actually did know what they were doing. The real lesson of the Ebola story is that sometimes public policy is succeeding even while partisans are screaming about failure. And it’s not the only recent

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/opinion/paul-krugman-when-government-succeeds.html?_r=0

When Government Succeeds

There is a lot of good news that Republicans don’t want you to notice.

nytimes.com|By Paul Krugman