“During recessions, as economic anxieties intensify, so does scarcity psychology and so does the bigotry aimed at potential competitors. Not surprisingly, hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party and organizations like the Moral Majority begin to gather momentum (and win generous publicity from the media). Often well-financed by moneyed persons, these groups take the anger that the working Americans might feel toward the profiteering corporate class and try to redirect it in a right-wing direction against irrelevant foes such as Blacks, Jews, women, trade unionists, secular humanists, and radicals. They attempt to channel economic class grievances into noneconomic issues such as school prayers, abortion, and the teaching of evolution.” - Democracy for the Few

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