Right Wingers in Power

http://nytimes.com/2003/12/02/opinion/L02BROO.html

December 2, 2003
Conservatives in Power

To the Editor:

Re "The Promised Land," by David Brooks (column, Nov. 29):

The reason conservatives will not stay in power long is simple: the majority
of voters do not agree with their basic tenets. Their success must therefore
rest on deception. Eventually, voters will unmask the truth.

Americans do not want to dismantle environmental regulations. They don't
want to favor big business over consumers and taxpayers. They don't want to
starve the Social Security and Medicare programs. They don't want a foreign
policy that shuns international cooperation. They don't want increasing
concentrations of wealth.

It may take voters a few more years of George W. Bush to figure out what's
happening. But it won't take 60 years.
KEN SWENSEN



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