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Go to a dive bar in Western PA, ask the people there what they think about neurosurgeons and what they think about bankers. The American conservative base hate

• gaius 15y ago
  It's not just their choice of profession. When a redneck says he hates "bankers" that's code for "Jews".
  • rdmlx 15y ago
    Why would you say this? Is discrimination okay here as long as it's in the reverse?
  • winestock 15y ago
    No. When they say bankers, they mean bankers. The non-neoconservative Right has been harping on this for some time. http://www.alternativeright.com/main/the-magazine/the-banksters-and-american-foreign-policy/ http://www.alternativeright.com/main/the-magazine/the-bankst...
    • jonnathanson 15y ago
      Unfortunately, as much as they may hate bankers (or claim to, at any rate), they hate "government" and "regulation" even more -- because that's what their banker-funded politicians have reflexively drilled into their heads. So they'll rally against regulation of the banks even if they don't understand what it's for, or that the very bankers they claim to hate benefit from their votes.
• klenwell 15y ago
  But what do their votes say? It may be the case that, when it comes to financial industry reforms, there's not much light between the two major parties. But what light there is is probably most clearly represented by Elizabeth Warren and the consumer protection agency for which she advocated. Yet as soon as they took over the House, the Republican party made it a point to immediately attack her and sink her chance to lead it. So while the conservative base hates bankers, they seem also to have been conditioned to reflexively hate any kind of realistic mechanism to regulate them even more.