via Sharp Elbows. It sounds like he’s predicting social unrest as he tells this audience that what is coming is a recipe for a battleground. After saying this he proceeds to demonize his ‘opponents’ (I guess that’s the Tea Party) as if to mobilize those in the audience.
I’ve just got one question. Van Jones says that we will become more diverse, but less and less prosperous. How does he know that we are going to be less prosperous? Is he simply responding to what’s happening, or does he know something that he’s not telling us, like the policies that the Obama administration and the Democrats have been pushing are meant to make us less prosperous. Think ObamaCare, Financial Reform, and the oil drilling moratorium. Yeah, I’m thinking it’s the latter.
And we are going to go into a tough period, a potential nightmare scenario, where we are going to be getting as a nation more and more ethnically diverse, more and more culturally diverse, more and more sociologically diverse, BUT less and less economically prosperous. More and more ethnically diverse but less economically prosperous. If you know anything about history, that is not a recipe for a common ground, that’s a recipe for a battleground.
And you have opponents in this country who see the same scenario, and their answer is ‘fear the diversity’; their answer is ‘attack the diversity’; their answer is ‘squeeze back on the immigrants’, ‘squeeze back – attack the muslims’. Worried that somebody’s going to marry somebody who is the wrong gender, ‘attack the diversity’.