Meanwhile in Greece: ‘Anger Always Wants a Target’

In Greece, where unemployment is at 27 percent and life is increasingly impossible and miserable, the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn — slogan, “Greece belongs to Greeks” — has claimed 18 of the 300 parliament seats and enjoys support from 12 percent of the population. The party and its constituents have been blamed for a surge of violent crime against immigrants. (“Anger always wants a target,” said the prominent clinical psychologist, Dr Iphigenia Macri. “Golden Dawn provides a target, which is immigrants. It is targeting all that anger and sense of abuse that, collectively, Greek people feel at the hands of the government and state.”)

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