There is profound paranoia on the economic front all along the political spectrum. Conservatives AND liberals feel that bailouts are arranged for the benefit of Wall Street insiders by leaders of both parties who rely on former Goldman Sachs directors and people who have worked closely with them.
At the same time many people are suspicious about the presence of immigrant and unfamiliar religious groups in our midst. For their parts, as ...
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Interesting opinion about the rise of paranoia in society. The author describes this delusional state and points to the growing tendency across the political spectrum to assign blame for a range of social problems to a few identifiable scapegoats like President Obama, Wall Street insiders, Muslims or immigrants. But this short blog post doesn't go far enough in identifying remedies to this problem.
I'm not sure why the piece didn't start with the third paragraph, which would certainly have made the op-ed more coherent and compelling. There is profound paranoia out there, something apparent to even the laymen among us, and this piece (sans the first two paragraphs) would have made a good introduction into an exploration of that.
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