Robert Reich: The Revolt of the Anxious Class

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8. K&R

Great article. Even among my educated, employed Democratic friends I am seeing this fear (although not the racism). They feel like everything is tenuous because they have seen so many other middle-class people lose their good jobs and what a snowball effect it has. Unless you have a huge amount of money saved up, it doesn't take long to find yourself in a financial death spiral.

Even if you do have money saved up, most people I know that have lost jobs have had to tap in to or completely deplete their retirement savings. They might be surviving now, but there goes their secure future.

It's harder on the poor, but it's still hard on everyone. Face it, most of us are being crushed by these destructive policies and until we direct the blame where it belongs and stop tearing each other apart, nothing will change.