"Where the Hell Is the Outrage?"

Where the Hell Is the Outrage?

From the first breath of life to the last, our lives are being stolen out from under us. From infant care and early education to Social Security and Medicare, the dominant economic ideology is demanding more lifelong sacrifices from the vulnerable to appease the gods of wealth.

by Richard Eskow at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/where-the-hell-is-the-out_b_3564537.html

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It's not that things aren't changing. It's that people don't know they're changing. And without that knowledge the public becomes a canary in a coalmine, only aware of its declining oxygen supply when it keels over and dies.

It's an almost classic state of alienation, in which people may be acutely aware of their own increasing difficulties (although sometimes they can be numb to that as well) but experience them in a state of isolation. That turns the anger inward, leading to crippling reactions like guilt and despair. And repeated individual failures -- failures made increasingly likely in a skewed system -- lead to a sense of learned helplessness.

The Radical Rich

Interestingly, the "change = political pressure" theory helps explain the rage of the "radical rich" who -- despite their almost unprecedented lives of wealth and privilege -- are articulating an anger which seems at first to be inexplicable. But they, unlike the vast majority, are experiencing perceptible (if minor) changes.

No current policy proposals would substantially affect their historic levels of wealth and privilege. But some Democratic policies would slightly discommode the ultra-wealthy, and conservative forces have been shrewd enough to trumpet that fact far and wide in a tone of barely suppressed hysteria.

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