Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson

from the Green candidates inaugural address as President of the US:

In the years since we used our government to help us get out of the Great Depression, it has sometimes been fashionable to belittle the American government as some kind of foreign burden laid on us. That attitude is nothing more than an attack on american history, deliberately designed to shift power away from the American people.

p. 63

I Think this often. It is why I consider Rush Limbaugh unAmerican. He attacks the institutions of government. He want to allow the robber barrons to rule us without any democratic controls to stem their greed. I am not against attacking bad government and arguing to make it better. Any big system has lots of room for error. But just saying the government is bad is anti-American. Government was what the constitution was designed to create. Can't knock that.