Does anyone else feel this all started with Sarah Palin?

[The Wielding Truth]

59. Your post says it the best for me. The greedy and deceitful have always

been with us in America. They came from the trade companies and the slavers.
Roosevelt had to fight the wealthy to save the economy from those who foolishly and shortsightedly ran crooked schemes for an easy profit. Then the arms traders and the oil barons pushed any action for power and money.
Deals were made in back rooms until enough money flowed into congress for Boehner to pass out checks before the Tobacco bill.

There has been a strong idea of a noble government that has righted our ships, but it has been made weak by a clever technique of right-wing propaganda that has been unstopped by the forced necessity to have luxury, and to have familiar coddling to protect us from the imaginary other, the stranger, the different religion or language.

How do we stop it? We get brave because we are brave. We will
institute the common good and the individual freedoms we know to be just.