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In reply to the discussion: Chris Hedges - We have engineered the rage of the dispossessed (warning - may scare some) [View all]jwirr
(39,215 posts)variety of excuses for what they were doing and even seemed confused about some of it. They were angry. But was the pic of Mohammed or their hatred of Jews the only thing they are angry about? I doubt it. Most of us are angry today. And most of us are angry about the economy. Why should they be any different?
But the real point of Hedges article is that the rich are going to see this kind of anger expressed toward them more often because of their greed and hatred. This was just a preview of what is to come. Individual action that strikes out at corporations and their stockholders with unexpected swiftness. It will be aimed at whoever is close enough to attack. It will not come from the poorest because they do not have the means to do this - most of us do not own guns. Can't afford them. - It will come from the people who recognize what has been done to them - the former middle class and even from the upper class who see their lives as a dead end.
When people like Hedges and Pope Francis speak out they are speaking for the poor but they are also telling the rich that things have gone too far. That violence is waiting just outside the door. Wake up, 1%, and start helping to fix it.