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Narratives of Hegemony
"Get the government off your back"
| Description: |
Resonates in popular consciousness as if to say, "Diminish government intrusion into your personal life." |
| Purpose: |
Mobilize voters to support easing of environmental, labor, and other socially-minded regulations on big business. |
| Example: |
Reagan's simple, effective slogan: "Government is not the solution; government is the problem." |
| Anecdote: |
Security guard at a hotel where I worked, made $7/hr, no health insurance, no retirement, voted for Bush in 1988 because "Bush is for smaller government." Objectively this decision was entirely against his personal self-interest. |
| Type: |
Positive |
| Contradiction: |
Conservatives' enormous increases in military and police spending. These are far the largest segments of Big Government. People truly interested in government downsizing would start here. |
| Contradiction: |
The Patriot Act, with its astonishing increase in governmental intrusiveness. |
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More Information
- Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory, Laclau
- The Spitting Image, Lembcke
- Vietnam and Other American Fantasies, Franklin
- M.I.A., or Mythmaking in America, Franklin
- Trouble Tickets' narratives book selections
- Reading Capital, Althusser
- Lenin and Philosophy, Althusser
- Louis Althusser, Montag
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