"In this way, of course, money only mirrors other aspects of our political moment, where the prevailing mood generally seems to swing from one kind of antiestablishment ethos to another. In the age of eBay and Priceline, we are now a nation of comparison shoppers, inclined to trade one governing approach for another with a frequency that would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. While one party holds power, the other is always busy learning the tactical lesson of its most recent defeat and counting the months until it can strike back."
Do people agree with this assessment of Americans as political comparison shoppers? Is it true that the majority just hates whoever is in power or is it just the vocal minority? It seems as if this is more tied to the economy, which is ever more frequently undergoing crises, than to some new techno-psychological behavior on the part of the masses.
From: Campaign Money Tends to Flow to the Opposition - October 20, 2010
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