There is the story and there is reality

Americans, the story goes, are tea-partiers. They want government slashed, taxes cut, have no faith in anything that government does. There is little evidence of this, of course, as Rachel Maddow pointed out last night — recent tea party events have been sparsely attended while the protests in Wisconsin, Ohio and Michigan in favor of union rights, and others backing other more progressive policies have been much larger.

Efforts like this, from the Coalition for Peace Action in Princeton, while far from scientific, offer evidence of our support for things like health care and education.

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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet