Zogby: ‘Fear’s Back with a Vengeance’
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 22nd, 2010 4:47 am by HL
Zogby: ‘Fear’s Back with a Vengeance’
James Zogby: Something remarkable happened on November 4, 2008. Despite economic distress, uncertainty and insecurity, voters went to the polls and chose hope over fear electing Barack Obama President of the United States. I say remarkable because … the more typical response under such circumstances has been for social movements to emerge that, driven by fear, withdraw into chauvinistic xenophobia, glorifying an imagined past and striking out against threats real or imagined. … Fear is back, with a vengeance.