Marv Gandall wrote: > If the crisis continues to deepen, however, we can expect many disaffected > Americans who are now giving Obama the benefit of the doubt to turn to > right-wing demagogues blaming the mounting unemployment and plummeting > living standards on the failed "socialistic" politicies of the > administration as well as on "greedy Wall Street speculators". We know where > that poisonous amalgam has led in the past.
and there's a scapegoat waiting that movement's ire: immigrant workers who are "taking 'our' jobs away from us." I sure that the gays, lesbians, bis, and transgender types will get some flack, too. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
