While progressives argue over who's failing to organize whom, other organizations have no trouble rounding up recruits from the many in the U.S. who are angry over bailouts, economic failures, and a governing class they feel is out of touch. Independent journalist Rick Rowley of Big Noise Films co-produced a film, White Power U.S.A., for Al Jazeera English on the rise of white nationalist groups since the inauguration of Barack Obama. He found that many of the new recruits to these groups don't consider themselves white nationalists, but are finding few other places to turn.
Rowley and Chip Berlet, senior analyst at Political Research Associates and author of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort
Social Scientists have long said that home ownership is the key to a stable society. Once home ownership drops below a certain level, there is no easy way to control the population…once people have nothing to lose.
The first people who are getting intransigent are those who already have some personality problems and violent tendency. The white nationalists, the tea baggers, etc.
But I fear this will spread more widely among less outré groups. The corporations’ greed will be their undoing and the undoing of civil society. Talk about killing the golden goose.
For us in Hawai’i with our multi-racial families, films like these are unsettling!
By paiagirl on January 7th, 2010 at 4:28 pm