AMERICAN RAGE (Esquire Magazine)

Esquire Magazine ^ | Jan 3, 2016 | Esquire Editors

[Baynative]

LET'S BEGIN WITH THE BIG REVEALS: Half of all Americans are angrier today than they were a year ago. White Americans are the angriest of all. And black Americans are more optimistic about the future of the country and the existence of the American dream. There are depths and dimensions, dark corners and subtle contours to our national mood, and setting aside the issue of who actually has a right to be angry and about what - these pages are neutral territory; everyone is allowed their beef - we found three main factors shaping American rage:

[ronnie raygun]

Whites angry, blacks optimistic, got it

[JusPasenThru]

Let’s all meet at our space to destroy. Where is it, again?

[11th_VA]

Lol!!!

[Carriage Hill]

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency, than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. TWICE. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president." TWICE.

- Translated into English from an article appearing in the Czech Republic as published in the "Prager Zeitung" of April 28, 2010.

[Resolute Conservative]

They confuse anger with frustration on how stupid our general public has become.

[Baynative]

"And black Americans are more optimistic about the future of the country and the existence of the American dream."

That was one of the lines that got me the most. First I thought "what the hell kind of science told them this", then I thought "what the hell kind of Magazine has Esquire become?"

[LucyT]

Check out article and ... Wait! What?

Thanks, Baynative.

[Electric Graffiti]

I'm FUELED BY RAGE

If you don't have blood in your eyes you're not a real American.

[KC_Lion]

Oh My... I am stunned. The Stupidity.

They actually have "Trigger Warning" in the Middle of the article with a Big Yellow Warning Sign and everything.

I facepalmed so hard I think I gave myself a headache.

[melancholy]

*White Americans are the angriest of all. And black Americans are more optimistic about the future of the country and the existence of the American dream.*

Yeah, the sun rises in the west!

[Mr. Jeeves]

It's actually worse - I'm not angry at all.

I am indifferent.

Once I might have cared about a better America. Once I might have worked hard toward building the country into a place where all Americans could have a chance to achieve their dreams. Once I might have noticed the poor and the downtrodden, and striven to help them get on their feet. Once I might have desired to bring liberty and justice to the peoples of other parts of the world, blighted as they are by tyranny and violence.

Now I am indifferent. The past eight years have taught me that I am living in something roughly equivalent to a chimpanzee enclosure inside a giant zoo. I have withdrawn from its walls. I watch, and wait. They desperately want my consent. I will not give it to them.

I pay their taxes, when I must. I donate no time nor energy toward the furtherance of their schemes. I disregard their phony elections, and all the propaganda of the seasons. I do not invest in their rigged markets. I do not buy their falsified paper. I do not work for their "corporate" arm, for it is no less an apparatus of their regime than the local EPA office. I ignore their social justice campaigns, intended to strengthen their foot soldiers at the expense of the productive.

Night is coming for them. You can sense their fear. They are beginning to lash out in all directions. Many innocent Americans will be hurt and killed by their actions, as their wicked empire begins to crumble.

I can offer no solutions - only advice that expressing the kind of anger they want to bait you into could quickly prove fatal. Witness the events in Oregon, where overzealous protestors badly misunderstood what rights they actually have to resist.

Just wait and watch, and refuse to play. Don't be angry. Remain indifferent to what you see happening. They are not even worth hating.

What is coming can no longer be avoided, but it can still be survived - by the wise. Good people will be hurt. Bad people will be utterly obliterated. But there will be something left when the storm passes.

[Baynative]

[Rembrandt]

They have free time on their hands and assaulting/killing people must be enjoyable for them. Just look how they laugh after sucker punching old people!