Rage

Frank Rich delivers another timely and concise article on the rage that is sweeping through the right from baggers, birthers, spitters, brick throwers, and take our country backers.

The demographics of the USA are changing. In a few years whites will become another minority. Asians, Hispanics, and Blacks, as a combined group will be the majority. Nothing is going to change that.

NY TImes: The Rage Is Not About Health Care

If Obama’s first legislative priority had been immigration or financial reform or climate change, we would have seen the same trajectory. The conjunction of a black president and a female speaker of the House — topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay Congressional committee chairman — would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority in the country no matter what policies were in play. It’s not happenstance that Frank, Lewis and Cleaver — none of them major Democratic players in the health care push — received a major share of last weekend’s abuse.