Unfortunately, remnants of the American Dream and the Spirit of Capitalism still determine the majority's beliefs that they should be able to make it if they only work hard enough. With the help of the intolerance pushers, we are distracted from our real problems like corporate greed. If blame were placed more squarely on the problem, we would see that corporate greed, not affirmative action, has prompted the loss of jobs for U.S. laborers while it has simultaneously promoted the exploitation of off-shore workers in Asia and South America as well as U.S prisoners. Irrationality is a good thing from the point of view of those who want to deflect attention from the true source of social problems. For instance, if the public can be convinced that the trouble with this country is that African Americans don't want to work, do want to commit crime, and ought to be incarcerated for lengthy periods, then the public will focus on crime instead of lean and mean employment policies.
Intolerance is a catalyst for rage.
People who are into rage and intolerance today seem willing to preach violence, listen to and agree with violence, and either engage in it themselves or support the conduct of violence as committed by others. Intolerance messages are simplistic. Intolerance messages outnumber and are of greater emotional intensity and emotional appeal than the more rational and accurate messages. Mainstream politics and the privately-owned media express intolerance for social diversity, multiculturalism, environmentalism, and related issues of fairness, liberalism, and progressivism. U.S. society, probably like all societies, has always had rage junkies.