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In Kansas and [[other]] states in the American heartland, [[economic]] [[class]] [[conflict]] (poor farmers and blue-collar [[workers]] versus lawyers, bankers, large companies) has been transposed into an opposition between honest, hard-[[working]], [[Christian]] Americans on the one hand, and decadent latte-drinking [[liberals]] who [[drive]] foreign cars, mock patriotism and advocate abortion and [[homosexuality]] on the other: so Thomas Frank argues in What's the Matter with America? The main economic interest of populist conservatism is to get rid of the strong [[state]], which taxes the population in [[order]] to finance regulatory interventions, and to introduce an economic programme whose slogan might be "less tax, fewer regulations." From the standard perspective which holds that economic [[agency]] is based on the [[rational]] pursuit of [[self]]-interest, the [[inconsistency]] of this stance is obvious: populist conservatives are literally voting themselves into economic ruin. Less taxation and increased deregulation means more [[freedom]] for the corporations that are driving impoverished farmers out of business; less state [[intervention]] means less federal [[help]] for small farmers, and so on. In the eyes of the evangelical populists, however, the state is an [[alien]] [[power]] and, together with the UN, an [[agent]] of the Antichrist: it relieves the Christian believer of the [[responsibility]] of stewardship, and thus undermines the [[need]] for [[individual]] [[morality]] that makes each of us the architect of our own salvation.
==Source==
* [[Over the Rainbow]]. ''[[Lacan]].com''. November 4, 2004. <http://www.lacan.com/zizek-rainbow.htm>.
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