THIS IS SCARY

My main impression of the typical Bagger is based upon the morons who call conservative talk radio shows but that is more than a little misleading because there are many who aren't morons by any stretch.  Consider Karen Jaroch:

Karen Jaroch’s Party
Posted by George Packer
August 30, 2012
The New Yorker

- Jaroch is a Tampa native in her late forties, trained as an industrial engineer, a wife and mother, a churchgoer and P.T.A. member,...

- From its first days, his Presidency made her fear for her children’s future. “I really thought the America I grew up in wasn’t going to be available for them,” she said. “I was studying with my son for the midterm and they were studying Egypt. Egypt started on the Nile River, and everybody worked and farmed the land, and you got rice to the Pharaohs, and the Pharaohs wanted to build these pyramids, and they started taxing people to make these pyramids for themselves. Every society goes through that. It happened in Rome, and I’ve seen that happen here. I saw us in decline. The opportunities for my kids—they weren’t going to have what I could achieve.”

- She didn’t blame deregulation, Wall Street, the mortgage lenders, or the local developers. Instead, she blamed the government for pushing people into houses they couldn’t afford, while she and her husband lived within their means in a two-hundred-thousand-dollar house.

- And in 2010, when the county commission voted to allow an initiative onto the fall ballot that would fund a light-rail system around Tampa with a one-cent sales-tax increase, Jaroch and another woman led the opposition. ... Rail represented government waste and bloat, and, beyond that, European-style socialism, bringing high taxes, less freedom, and a threat to the suburban way of life. She warned against the influence of planners, and she sometimes invoked Agenda 21, a nonbinding United Nations “sustainable development” initiative from the early nineteen-nineties that Jaroch and other conservatives regard as an ominous danger to American sovereignty.

- A few nights ago, a group of supporters came to watch a screening of “Who Is John Galt?,” the second part of a film version of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged.” Jaroch hasn’t read the novel—she’s not a big reader of books—but agrees completely with its principles. She recently took out a newspaper subscription but doesn’t have much time these days to keep up. For a woman who’s become a high-profile political figure in Tampa, she isn’t always as informed as she should be (it was news to Jaroch that a third of the Obama stimulus was tax cuts, and that, while in office, Ronald Reagan raised taxes repeatedly). No argument or fact is likely to disturb the quiet certainty of her anti-government world view