fear that has been redirected. Kevin Drum says I'm not supposed to be mad that my local school board budgeted $25,000 to fund an after-school program for migrant kids - but the quality of education for MY kids keeps dropping. That would be intolerant. I don't know what Kevin would say. But I'd say that if you are angry that your local school board budgeted $25,000 for an after-school program (I find it hard to believe that the program bans white kids, so I find the "migrant" tendentious) while the quality of education for your kids keeps dropping, then you ought to be triple-angry that the President has handed HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS in tax breaks to the wealthiest 0.1% of Americans over the past 5 years. What if he'd taken, oh, a billion of that and put it into a crash math and science program for schools like yours? I think you're right to be angry that educational quality is dropping. But if you don't see why that is, and who's really been stealing your money, then you're a sucker. "...you barely need to scratch the surface to figure out that anti-immigrant anxiety mostly seems to revolve around crime, gangs, culture, language, social services, and bizarrely trumped up fears of reconquista." McA: If I wanted to defend the uninsured, the poor, the defenseless to ruthless capitalism, I'd look after those people born in America who still happen to have skill-sets that resemble third world workers....How does exposing them