“It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Sounds like a pretty good assessment for many places in the world today, not just abandoned factory towns in middle America. In fact, it sounds like a pretty good description of the tools used by politicians all around the world to justify their personal power grabs and try to drag the common people along to die for their wealth. Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany’s trashed economy. Bush uses the “war on terror” as an excuse to trash the Constitution.
Hamas and Bush’s twin in Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, blame the US and Israel for everything that’s ever gone wrong in the Middle East.

If you think I’m talking down to you when I make these points, then you need to step up. The ones who are really condescending are the ones who are using your frustration to make themselves rich. Its easy to get people to hate of you make the object of the hate somehow not quite human. It’s not so easy to hate when you realize that the “other” is really just like you in wanting to bring up their children in a reasonably safe and comfortable environment.

Barack Obama should be congratulated for telling the truth, not asked to apologize for it. Big Government and Big Media (the public face of Corporate America) do realize that “the truth shall set you free”, and they want none of it.  If telling the truth is “political suicide”, then lying is the convenient path to power.

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