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20. Plutocracy. People are feeling less empowered.

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Wed Aug 14, 2013, 10:44 AM

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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