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jwirr

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18. People are beginning to recognize that this is not the ordinary differences - it is a matter of

Wed Aug 14, 2013, 11:37 AM

Aug 2013

survival for both sides. The rethugs have the white voters who are afraid of becoming a minority and not having enough money (the 1%ers) to face the coming disasters that the realize are real but that they want to ignore. We Democrats are much the same. Our way of life is threatened by outsourcing and the anti-jobs measures. The balance that FDR put in place is falling to pieces and we are seeing our own survival threatened.

IMO the country is lucky that it is only anger it faces. We could be having a remake of the French revolution.

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Robert Reich: Why the Anger? [View all] marmar Aug 2013 OP

du rec. xchrom Aug 2013 #1

Fox News, Blimpy, Clear Channel etc. Vinnie From Indy Aug 2013 #2

Exactly. n2doc Aug 2013 #26

When there's an outside enemy, members of a group unite. When there's not, they turn on each other. SharonAnn Aug 2013 #33

+1 Dawson Leery Aug 2013 #40

Bob needs to get out more often, and not just to Starbucks. Safetykitten Aug 2013 #3

Bingo! +1 for you & K&R for the thread. Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #4

Watergate? How about Shrub's years? Solly Mack Aug 2013 #5

Corporate hate media, advocating for more money and power for the 1% tabasco Aug 2013 #6

Robert "NAFTA" Reich onpatrol98 Aug 2013 #7

When you can't address the subject attack the messenger Bandit Aug 2013 #9

Ah...my post is actually a great example of what he's talking about...I agree. onpatrol98 Aug 2013 #14

And you respond by again attacking him. zeemike Aug 2013 #23

This is silly... onpatrol98 Aug 2013 #37

I did not come here to ignore people zeemike Aug 2013 #39

Reich is right in this article - its the wealth gap. And onpatrol is right - Reich has culpability riderinthestorm Aug 2013 #42

Yep! Vinnie From Indy Aug 2013 #44

Reich is someone who can alternate between articulate and obtuse markiv Aug 2013 #8

OK, let's cut the crap. He knows all the rage is because a black President is in office & RW stoking kelliekat44 Aug 2013 #10

WHOOP, THERE IT IS!!!!!!!!! (For those who can't handle simple TRUTH!!) Liberal_Stalwart71 Aug 2013 #17

It may surprise you, but I was in a rage the last time a White guy was the President too. 1-Old-Man Aug 2013 #32

Read the article and I think you'll see he nails the exact reason. Marr Aug 2013 #11

Angry and completely ineffective. ananda Aug 2013 #12

Cant wait for FOX to call him out as a Commie-pinko-anti-American-liberal. kelliekat44 Aug 2013 #13

Mass stupidity. Zoeisright Aug 2013 #15

The answer is simple: There's a black Muslim socialist Kenyan in the White House. Liberal_Stalwart71 Aug 2013 #16

The anger started long before Obama came on the stage. zeemike Aug 2013 #24

I disagree. People were angry at Clinton for Monica but apparently not angry enough Liberal_Stalwart71 Aug 2013 #31

Well they impeached him. zeemike Aug 2013 #41

The House impeached him. The Senate acquitted him. The American people loved Bill Clinton who left Liberal_Stalwart71 Aug 2013 #43

That answer is simplistic, not simple. winter is coming Aug 2013 #35

Not for me, but again, like Obama said and Clinton before him agreed... Liberal_Stalwart71 Aug 2013 #38

People are beginning to recognize that this is not the ordinary differences - it is a matter of jwirr Aug 2013 #18

And we knew this nadinbrzezinski Aug 2013 #19

Agreed. Brigid Aug 2013 #27

Plutocracy. People are feeling less empowered. Auggie Aug 2013 #20

more from article: abelenkpe Aug 2013 #21

Because The Sheriff Is A................................ Caeser67 Aug 2013 #22

The last time America was this divided . . . Brigid Aug 2013 #25

Americans are angrier today because 90-percent Aug 2013 #28

This statement is flat out wrong. RC Aug 2013 #29

Most of these articles are written as a warning to the 1% that they better start trickling down. Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2013 #30

Because we spent all we gained from plundering a continent and arming the winners of WW I & II? FarCenter Aug 2013 #34

both the parties' decisionmakers are on the right, MisterP Aug 2013 #36