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In reply to the discussion: After 10 years, I've never seen DU as crazy as it is right now. [View all]Spazito
(50,339 posts)the reasons for that fear and anger are as diverse as the groups expressing them, imo. I don't think it is planned, it is too chaotic for that but there are those who will use others' anger and fear to further their own ends.
When people are afraid of losing what they have they lash out in more than one direction which is what we are seeing now and, all too often, minorities take the brunt of it, easy targets because they are minorities with fewer tools to fight back.
My daughter and I were talking about this in a micro sense, discussing the rise in road rage, aggressive acts and how quick people are to become angry over things that would have once been seen as minor.
Growing inequality is a major factor and for POC that inequality is racial injustice which continues relatively unhindered and threatens their very lives and doesn't even give them a step on that ladder toward the economic justice others see as primacy. For those who see the growing inequality in strictly economical terms, they, too feel their way of life threatened, their ability to get their fair slice of the pie and cannot accept there are other reasons for anger, other issues of equal import.
Add to all that a political system the public perceives as being one bought by the highest bidder and where they have little to no influence on the end result and we have happening what we see and feel today.
These are my thoughts, I don't have any answers just worries.