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Political psychology

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The idea that people are born into their political parties is also true regarding attitudes towards the governmentsince the Reagan Revolution in particular, Americans as a whole have been highly suspicious of government intervention. Anti-government ideals have become a kind of dogma, even in the absence of factual data that government intervention will produce a negative result. Americans are less party-affiliated than before but Hymans notion that a man is born into his political party may be translated in contemporary terms as thus: people hold onto the ideological sentiments they heard articulated when they were young, like the idea that the government is the source of all of their problems, and they respond to rhetoric that restates such ideas

If politicians use anti-government ideological sentiment in their speeches, they are more apt to be re-elected. It they use such ideology in framing particular issues that are confusing and ambiguous, they can more easily rally support for their causes. For example, people who are unhappy with their healthcare coverage, who have been denied insurance because of pre-existing conditions, or who pay high premiums and do not get coverage through their employers might be open to the idea of a single-payer