The Politics of Anger Management
The apoplectic rage that followed the US Supreme Court’s decision on Barack Obama’s health-care legislation is becoming routine in America’s public discourse, and it is a bipartisan malady. The age of information and communications has given way to an age of anger.
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DENVER – Shortly after John Roberts, the conservative United States Supreme Court Chief Justice, sided with the Court’s four liberal justices to uphold President Barack Obama’s major health-care reform, he joked that he was leaving the country for the “impregnable island fortress” of Malta. Roberts was referring not so much to the mainstream media’s speculation about the reasons for his surprise vote, but rather to the fury and thirst for retribution among conservative bloggers and pundits.