This Rick Perlstein article brought this snippet from a Bagger to my attention:
"We're sick and tired of being ignored," a Beck follower was quoted in a cover story in Time magazine.
The TIME article identifies the Bagger: Deanna Frankowski of Leeds, Alabama. We also learn that she's just another rube who believes in the Free Market Fairy:
Frankowski has been hit hard by the economic turmoil of the past year. Short of funds to make the trip, she painted an American flag on a pane of glass and asked people at her church to chip in toward her expenses, with one of them taking home the flag. She would like to share a house with her soon-to-be husband, but first she must figure out how to get free of the house she has — the one with the underwater mortgage. Some left-leaning writers argue that people in her boat must be deluded to oppose Barack Obama, but Frankowski is skeptical that her interests are being served by trillions in new government interventions. So she said, "I've paid my mortgage every month. And I'm getting no help. I'm just saying, Let capitalism work."
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