Robert Reich: Why the Anger?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

16. The answer is simple: There's a black Muslim socialist Kenyan in the White House.

That is clearer to me now that it has been in nearly 5 years.

Even with everything that Bush II and the Republicans did to (deliberately) destroy this economy and our reputation around the world, the majority of the anger, vitriol and pure hatred has been directed at THIS president.

Fuck Watergate! And there's always been income and wealth disparity, even though it's now more pronouced. Why weren't people up in arms about this during the Bush II era? Why? I tell you why: The black man is now in the White House and people are outraged! OUTRAGED!!!!

Some of the vitriol has its basis in latent racism. Some of it is subtle or implicit. Perhaps even on a subsconcious level, there's discomfort with seeing a black family in the White House. But, much of it is deliberate and explicit in terms of Republicans (and some Democrats who side with them) who are purposefully attempting to sabotage this economy and blame the president for it.

That's how I see it and it's going to take an awful lot to convince me otherwise.

Reich needs to tell the truth here.

ETA: For the poster who wrongly referred to Robert Reich as Robert "NAFTA" Reich, Robert was actually very much opposed to NAFTA, which was one of the reasons why he left the Clinton White House.