{"id":6113,"date":"2012-02-18T10:45:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T17:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=6113"},"modified":"2012-02-18T10:45:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T17:45:08","slug":"panic-single-working-moms-unemployed-single-men-and-high-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2012\/02\/18\/panic-single-working-moms-unemployed-single-men-and-high-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Panic: single working moms, unemployed single men, and high finance."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One way to explain the <a href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/02\/how-the-gop-went-back-to-the-1950s-in-just-one-day.php\">moral panics<\/a> of our day: a society governed primarily by old, rich white men of European descent apprehends an economy driven by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2011\/11\/all-the-single-ladies\/8654\/\">single<\/a>, working <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/18\/us\/for-women-under-30-most-births-occur-outside-marriage.html?_r=1&#038;pagewanted=2&#038;partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\">moms<\/a>, weighed down by unemployed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2011\/09\/can-the-middle-class-be-saved\/8600\/?single_page=true\">single men<\/a> and traumatized by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/democracyinamerica\/2012\/02\/prisons-and-crime\">reckless mass incarceration<\/a> of the poor.  <\/p>\n<p>Their <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imagined_communities\">imagined community<\/a> is obsolete to an increasingly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/interracial-marriages-on-the-rise-as-us-becomes-more-diverse-blurring-nations-color-lines\/2012\/02\/16\/gIQAJ9byGR_story.html\">multiracial<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/02\/08\/us-univisioin-abc-idUSTRE8172FG20120208\">multicultural<\/a>  and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/02\/08\/ellen-degeneres-jc-penney-bill-oreilly_n_1263473.html\">anti-heterosexist<\/a> majority. Quite simply, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/press\/release\/republicans-seal-their-fate-with-hispanic-voters-in-2012\/\">numbers<\/a> do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-02-02\/harvard-targeted-in-u-s-asian-american-discrimination-probe.html\">not<\/a> support their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/who-had-the-worst-week-in-washington-former-congressman-pete-hoekstra\/2012\/02\/16\/gIQAyCOXIR_story.html\">story of self<\/a>. (Not that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/population\/www\/documentation\/twps0056\/tab01.pdf\">they ever did.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, this ruling minority are also experiencing a crisis of faith, as their religion, high finance, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Financial_crisis_of_2007\u20132011\">keeps failing<\/a> to pull a rabbit out of the hat. Thus, perhaps, a great deal of panic. From Wall Street to Main Street and back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One way to explain the moral panics of our day: a society governed primarily by old, rich white men of European descent apprehends an economy driven by single, working moms, weighed down by unemployed single men and traumatized by the reckless mass incarceration of the poor. Their imagined community is obsolete to an increasingly multiracial,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}