Americans are angry and growing more frustrated, but the reasons are mixed. At shopping day sales, they fight over who gets the biggest television. At their children’s soccer games, they attack the coach if their team is not winning. Political candidates use language that insults America’s friends and neighbors.
And in the extreme, some become so angry over issues of religion, politics and power that they commit mass murder on strangers. Or threaten people with religions they do not like. “I just received a death threat in my own office,” Representative Andrew Carson, a Democrat from Indiana told CNN Tuesday. “And it is largely (due) to the environment, this toxic environment.”
Carson is one of two Muslim-Americans in Congress. He says the death threat came one day after Republican Donald Trump declared he would ban Muslims from traveling to the U.S., if he is elected president. But Americans are also angry and divided about continued economic struggles.
