Bob Herbert’s “ An Absence of Class“ (March 23) is a timely call for decent Americans to rise up against fear, ignorance and divisiveness in our political life. .
We need to understand that it’s fear that is driving that behavior, fear that fear-mongering against “big government” is foundering on the spectacle of China’s very big government threatening our leadership in the race to the future, fear that a strategy of demonizing “socialism” in Europe fails to explain the effective performance of people-oriented capitalism there, fear that a decades-long campaign of fear, ignorance and divisiveness to block any move toward a more mature, sustainable society is finally failing,
Fear is a very powerful emotion that can cause pathological, irrational behavior when it finds itself trapped in a cage of reality with no way out.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment