> There's a lot of anxiety in this society, stoked at every
> level.
Moreover, the sophisticated right to some degree understands and exploits this. In Canada, Stephen Harper is making use of Rovian techniques to exploit with some success irrational fears about crime and terror. As the BBC series, The Century of the Self (<http:// video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2637635365191428174>), documents, psychoanalysis as exemplified by the influence of Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, played a significant role in the development of political demagoguery and of "PR" in general in the US.
Ted