It always amazes me that people can be persuaded that their woes, economic and otherwise, can and should be blamed upon those who are even worse off than themselves.

It's called "scapegoating." Hitler persuaded the German people to blame The Jews for all their problems. The fat cats in control of the one-party American South were able for decades upon decades to convince the poor exploited white population to take out all their frustrations upon the even-poorer and even-more-exploited blacks.

So now it's the hardworking, uninsured, overworked and underpaid Spanish-speaking brown folks who are the cause of all our woes. Don't dare harbor a negative thought about the millionaires working so hard to land cost-plus government contracts, maintain our entire society's dependence upon the finite supply of fossil fuels that they control, and discourage the emergence of renewable-energy technologies that could eventually free everyone from dependence upon their oligarchy!

It's those damn Messicans who are to blame for everything!