and, it's hardly any coincidence that the "regular people" they claim to represent are, in truth, the upper middle class - who are so sheltered from reality that they probably think they are just regular joes.
"i'm just a regular, working class guy with a single family home in the suburbs, and a three car garage".
there's no irony, here.
but, i'm still more worried that the elites want to sell off our social services in a blitz of friedmanite backwardsness than i am that the world is secretly run by communists - because i don't get my news from whatever neo-bircher institute that the next generation of kochs is funding, this decade.
you have to give them credit for the gall of it, though. they'll peddle this nonsense without even blinking. it's impressive, in a certain way.