When Demagogues Blame Most Vulnerable, We All Lose when - Nashville PRIDE, Inc.

When demagogues blame most vulnerable, we all lose when - Nashville PRIDE, Inc.

Sierra Club’s Ben Jealous slams the rise of anti-immigrant rhetoric and budget cuts targeting working families, calling for investment in clean energy, economic justice, and shared prosperity over fear-based politics. The post When demagogues blame most vulnerable, we all lose when appeared first on Nashville PRIDE, Inc..

When demagogues blame the vulnerable, we all lose

In hard times, people look for an-wers. The decimation of American manufacturing starting in the 1990s with trade agreements like NAFTA led to decades of downward economic mobility for working

When Demagogues blame the vulnerable, we all lose

In hard times, people look for answers. The decimation of American manufacturing starting in the 1990s with trade agreements like NAFTA led to decades of downward economic mobility for working families. That creates ripe conditions for demagogues to come out of the woodwork offering an easy answer for people’s pain. And if history teaches us anything, that answer is usually someone else to blame.Today’s anti-immigrant movement follows the same d…