Ray Gun Myths

In
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction
Political Fiction
Didion, Joan

Didion examines R. Ray-guns behaviour in office in terms of his experience as an actor.  He was always on a shoot.   He treated everyone as extras, gofers, but never friends.

He also left us with a larger budget deficit and in some ways a larger government.  Larger because Ray-gun enlarged  the military.

Then synapses rubbed together and serotonin flowed.  What should appear to my wondering eyes but the supply chain that all those military purchases crated in the great American market place.  All the Lockheads, Martin Mariettas, Westinghouse, General Electrics, Blackwaters, Whackenhunts , and Halliburtons. All those business in the United States of armed America that make anything and everything for all the branches of the military:  And all the people they employ. 

Those people vote.  Yes they do: And not just every four year when the big man runs but every two years when the little local congressman runs.  Yes they do.  For that congress man sits on an appropriations committee.  One which sends $$$ money $$$ to the companies that employ our patriotic voter. 
O yes. O yes. O yes.