Joe Conason, Truthdig
By Joe Conason - November 3, 2012The ruin and hardship inflicted by a natural disaster can reveal truths that political propaganda tends to obscure. When Hurricane Sandy destroyed swaths of the Northeast, darkened our largest city and plunged a huge section of the nation into crisis, the anti-government ideology of the Tea Party Republicans -- and of its panderers like Mitt Romney -- was exposed as pretense and nonsense.Suddenly responsible for saving their communities and their people, politicians of every stripe reached out for help from the big Washington government and the liberal...
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