Government of, by and For the Comfortable

We, the relatively unbothered and well off, hold these truths to be self-evident: 

That Big Government, Big Deficits and Big Tobacco are bad, 

but that big bathrooms and 4-by-4’s are not;

that American overseas involvement should be restricted to trade agreements,

mutual funds and the visiting of certain beachfront resorts;

that markets can take care of themselves as long as they take care of us;

that an individual’s sex life is nobody’s business, though highly entertaining; 

and that the only rights that really matter are those which indulge the Self.

- Nicholas Lemann’s credo from his article ‘The New American Consensus; Government of, by and For the Comfortable’ 

Published: November 01, 1998