Follow this link to a story and video of a recent get together of American people who are angry about how the world situation is unfolding.

I posted a comment about this story.

You can laugh this off as much as you like, but the parallels to the world history of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s are getting to be too much to ignore.

I’ll start you off with a few. I am sure you can fill in the rest.

Stock market excess and bubble economy with lax regulation.

Bubble bursts, market tanks, unemployment rises, home foreclosures skyrocket.

People get angry and look for scapegoats.

Now take it from there and fill in the rest of the story from whatever history of the 20s, 30s, and 40s that you have heard about..

Let’s just say that people who were raised in the 50s with a certain ethnic background were always warned to be on the look out for a repeat of this history.  Of course we knew our parents and grandparents were just worrying about nothing.  It’s amazing how much more well founded their worries look today than they did back then.

Obviously there are some people who are very frightened. Frightened people are apt to act irrationally.  I would love to hear some thoughtful, serious ideas on what we can do to head off this problem before it gets out of hand.

Can you channel people’s fears into productive action?

I’d be wary of any efforts to channel their actions in any way  that would add to their fear of scapegoats.