Great editorial
Check it out: http://www.startribune.com/stories/561/4143782.html. It's about the California recall debacle, but touches on a broader, more insidious theme: anger politics. As the article states, the U.S. seems filled with people -- the majority of whom are white, middle-aged males who listen to AM radio -- who have a lot in life but somehow harbor conspiracies about how they'd have SO much more if only interlopers didn't meddle in their affairs. The interlopers include very specific entities, such as "the media" and "immigrants" and "government" and "feminists" and "affirmative action." The Man, they seem to think, is keeping them down, despite the fact that a look in the mirror will reveal that, indeed, they are The Man. And, while in front of the mirror every morning, they should, everyday, practice turning their frown upside down, before they get in the SUV and get blasted another refreshing dose of xenophobia on the AM radio waves.
