Friday, June 22, 2018

Stoking Fear

Guardian UK: Demagogues and charlatans are stoking fear, says Joe Biden - Former US vice-president compares situation with 1930s as migration convulses politics
“In ways that evoke memories of the 30s, frustrated and disaffected voters may turn instead to strongmen,” he told a conference in Copenhagen. “Demagogues and charlatans step up to stoke people’s legitimate fears and push the blame always on the other. There always has to be scapegoats. Now it is immigrants, the outsider, the other.”

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